Crime Quotes
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Certainly, I don't think I can ever be accused of being soft on crime.
Sally Yates -
It is well for our vanity that we slay the criminal, for if we suffered him to live he might show us what we had gained by his crime.
Oscar Wilde
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How do we know when someone like Hasan is going to make his move and do we know he's an Islamist until he's made his move? He makes a phone call or whatever, according to Reuters right now. Apparently he tried to contact al-Qaida. Is that the point at which you say, "This guy is dangerous?" That's not a crime to call up al-Qaida, is it? Is it? I mean, where do you stop the guy?
Chris Matthews -
This could never be a crime in any society which deems himself enlightened.
Jack Kevorkian -
Crafting a piece of gripping, narrative true crime that engages the world is not that different from crafting a piece of crime fiction.
Karin Slaughter -
I don't think anything good is happening. I think we're paying the price for it. I think while crime in general is going down, youth crime is going up. I think mental health problems of the youth are going up. You can't show causality. It's a hard stretch.
Edward Zigler -
I've been very clear. I won. I didn't commit the crime.
O. J. Simpson -
With 'Pretty Girls,' I saw the opportunity to talk not just about crime but what crime leaves behind.
Karin Slaughter
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In the end, crime doesn't pay.
Lane Garrison -
Crimes are more effectually prevented by the certainty than the severity of punishment
Cesare Beccaria -
That's what a good crime novelist - any good novelist - should do with you: play with your perceptions while showing you everything in plain sight.
Harlan Coben -
Pushing the boundaries of polite society does not just fall under the purview of crime fiction authors.
Karin Slaughter -
Ottawa is a hot spot of Canadian crime writing, with perhaps the greatest concentration of active, involved, published crime writers anywhere.
Vicki Delany -
God save us from idealists! They dream of a world without injustice, and what crime won't they commit to get it! I swear, Mirella, I'll settle for a world with good manners.
Mary Doria Russell
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Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.
Cato the Younger -
To be smart on crime, we should not be in a position of constantly reacting to crime after it happens. We should be looking at preventing crime before it happens.
Kamala Harris -
Why then should money be blamed for all the dirt and crimes it causes? For is love less filthy -- love which creates life?
Emile Zola -
The United States and Mexico are trapped - economically, culturally, politically and because of drug crime - in the same continent.
Barry McCaffrey -
Knowledge is like a knife. In the hands of a well-balanced adult it is an instrument for good of inestimable value; but in the hands of a child, an idiot, a criminal, a drunkard or an insane man, it may cause havoc, misery, suffering and crime. Science and religion have this in common, that their noble aims, their power for good, have often, with wrong men, deteriorated into a boomerang to the human race.
Leo Baekeland -
Many who resort to crime ultimately can't read or write.
Wally Amos
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If you're a beautiful Caucasian woman, and you commit a heinous crime, it's like people don't want to acknowledge the reality of your actions.
Alissa Nutting -
Failure is not a crime. Failure to learn from failure is.
Walter Wriston -
A lapse in judgment is not a crime.
Eddie Perez -
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.
Geert Wilders