Crime Quotes
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Dominique Strauss-Kahn has always had a reputation as a man who cares for women, and even a libertine . . . There is a vast difference between that reputation . . . and the charge which he is the object, which is a serious, very serious crime or sex crime. This is something very different.
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Organized religions have all the facets of organized crime, except the compassion of organized crime.
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Crime and violence are the easiest emotions to reenact.
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Any time you have poverty, joblessness, sub-par public schools, and a lack of opportunity, you're going to have a high rate of crime.
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Smart on Crime says if you commit violent crimes, you should go to jail, and go to jail for extended periods of time. For people who are engaged in non-violent crimes - any crimes, for that matter - we are looking for sentences that are proportionate to the conduct that you engaged in.
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I want to look my fellow Americans directly in the eye and declare to them, 'I am not the anthrax killer.' I know nothing about the anthrax attacks. I had absolutely nothing to do with this terrible crime.
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Jurists say that a capital crime submerges all lesser crimes; and so it is with faith. Its absurdity makes all petty difficultiesvanish.
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Why is thinking about crime or imagining crime so goddamn central to pop culture? It doesn't matter whether it's American TV or British TV. And there's entire sections of bookstores devoted to crime.
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I am not saying that during the Second World War Germany did not, under the leadership of the National Socialist government, commit crimes.
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For a punishment to be just it should consist of only such gradations of intensity as suffice to deter men from committing crimes.
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No matter how many people you kill, using a machine gun in battle is not a war crime because it does not cause unnecessary suffering; it simply performs its job horrifyingly well.
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The most popular American fiction seems to be about successful people who win, and good crime fiction typically does not explore that world. But honestly, if all crime fiction was quality fiction, it would be taken more seriously.
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Crime is a rigid, unbending master, against whom no one can be strong except by total rebellion.
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People just like a good crime story; they want to know who did it.
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It is hardly fair to accuse us of ignorance when it was made a crime under the former order of things to learn enough about letters to even read the Word of God.
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The crime part is the engine that moves the narrative and allows me to write the other things I want to write about.
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80 percent of the Dutch jihadists who go to fight in Syria are Moroccans. 80 percent. They are 22 times over represented when it comes to street crime, and 60 percent of the Moroccan youth under the age of 23 has been arrested at least once.
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The crime should be punished no matter whether poverty or wealth caused it to occur, because the crime is wrong.
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New York has become an example of everything that is wrong with America. White Americans, fearing the crime and social alienation in New York City, commute endless hours to raise their families in safe, clean neighborhoods. The numbers of non-Americans, especially those from the Third World, are growing, and it is the hard working White New Yorker that pays the bill.
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Imprisonment, as it exists today, is a worse crime than any of those committed by its victims.
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Let's stop pretending we can arrest our way to safety and security. Despite all the fine work that policemen and women do, we have got to find other solutions to deter crime.
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The politics of crime is not about a party's record or a candidates proposals, but about perceived character and values.
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Identity theft is one of the fastest-growing crimes in the nation - especially in the suburbs.
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For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them.
