Crime Quotes
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Every place in the country you should get a license that shows you know how to safely store it, keep it away from your children or grandchildren. You should have to license it so the police can trace it if it's used in a crime. [On keeping guns]
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The poor and minorities are disproportionately both crime's perpetrators and its victims. People are saddened when this happens but not surprised.
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All is extremely genteel; and there is almost as much repose as in the golden saloons of the contiguous palaces. At any rate, if there be as much vice, there is as little crime.
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Our country's national crime is lynching. It is not the creature of an hour, the sudden outburst of uncontrolled fury, or the unspeakable brutality of an insane mob.
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The new racism, like God, works in mysterious ways and is quite effective in maintaining white privilege. For example, instead of saying as they used to say during the Jim Crow era that they do not want us as neighbors, they say things nowadays such as 'I am concerned about crime, property values and schools.'
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The penalty may be removed, the crime is eternal.
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There is nothing you can do to assuage your conscience when you commit sins. Crime is a spiritual assault on the soul.
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The most divisive issue facing New Yorkers in 2013 is stop and frisk, a tactic used by law enforcement to stop, question, and frisk people suspected of a crime.
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Failure is not a crime. Failure to learn from failure is.
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Small aim is a crime.
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Jason Bourne was the name of someone in American military intelligence—a traitor who was shot dead for his crime. When the present Bourne was recruited into Treadstone he was given the name of the dead man.
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To open his lips is crime in a plain citizen.
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No American should be killed by a drone on American soil without first being charged with a crime, without first being found guilty of a crime by a court.
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The expansion and sophistication of transnational crime represents one of the most dangerous threats we confront in the next millennium.
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We also have a lot of people who are not Dutch, and who are in Holland as a guest, whether they are asylum seekers or others. I believe if you commit a crime you overstay your welcome, if we could extradite you.
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Despotism is a long crime.
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The contemporary crime novel is, at its best, a novel of character. That's where the suspense comes from.
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This could never be a crime in any society which deems himself enlightened.
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I know that philosophically a murderer is not responsible for his crime, but I prefer not to take tea with him.
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There are no uncriminal crimes.
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Many who resort to crime ultimately can't read or write.
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I read a lot of thrillers, especially American crime novels.
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What does signature mean? Supposedly these are the added touches that make the crime personal to the killer.
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To make crime unprofitable, let the government run it.