Quotes about crime

Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.

Crimes against children are the most heinous crime. That, for me, would be a reason for capital punishment because children are innocent and need the guidance of an adult society.

Any society where it's a crime or a hassle to be different is a society based on psychological fascism.

The judge said I was a menace to society because I had put crime on a scientific basis.

There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.

Crime and legal stories, broadly speaking, are just where my interest happens to lie.

The criminal is the creative artist the detective only the critic.

That God is in truth the sort of bloodthirsty paranoid Who would rend to bits forty-two children for the crime of sassing one of his priests. Don't ask me about the Front Office's policies I just work here.

Crime is a fact of the human species, a fact of that species alone, but it is above all the secret aspect, impenetrable and hidden. Crime hides, and by far the most terrifying things are those which elude us.

Crime is the price society pays for abandoning character.

Sin is the delusion of our feelings while crime is the delusion of our actions.

To err is human but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked

I wasn't pissed off I was just robbed of most of the cocky confidence my cunningness had created.

I am told that the proximity of punishment arouses real repentance in the criminal and sometimes awakens a feeling of genuine remorse in the most hardened heart I am told this is due to fear.

One of his eyes resembled that of a vulture A pale blue eye with a film over it.

Society prepares the crime the criminal commits it.

Another note to self turn cellphone to silent when you’re trying to be sneaky.

It was worse than a crime it was a blunder.

Technology is a queer thing it brings you great gifts with one hand and it stabs you in the back with the other.

I didn’t marry the mob I was born into it.

No one can escape slavery we are all slaves in some regards. We are slaves to our parent's expectations. We are slaves to the pressures of our peers. We are slaves to our own ideologies and faiths.

Security is a double-edged sword: While a fence sure protects the fenced it also imprisons the protected.

Henry was now very annoyed he had dug himself into a hole so deep that they didn’t make a rope long enough.

I can so clearly distinguish between the criminal and his crime I can so sincerely forgive the first while I abhor the last.

Anyone who regards poetry as an entertainment, as a 'read,' commits an anthropological crime, in the first place against himself.

Abortion isn't a lesser evil, it's a crime. Taking one life to save another, that's what the Mafia does. It's a crime. It's an absolute evil.

The difference between political terror and ordinary crime becomes clear during the change of regimes, in which former terrorists become well-regarded representatives of their country.

Solitary confinement is too terrible a punishment to inflict on any human being, no matter what his crime. Hardened criminals in the men's prisons, it is said, often beg for the lash instead.

The crime of loving is forgetting.

Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.

We get the worrywart, the hypochondriac, the money-grubbing miser, the intractable negotiator... Some would say certain of these refer to the stereotypical, or 'stage' Jew. But objectively speaking, the only crime in humor is an unfunny joke.

If you shell a military base and happen to kill civilians, you have not committed a war crime; if you deliberately target cities and towns, you have.

The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy.

Not failure, but low aim, is crime.

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.

We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business?

A small demerit extinguishes a long service.

And the thing has been said and said well have no scruple. Take it and copy it.

Jupiter is slow looking into his notebook but he always looks.

The number of malefactors authorizes not the crime.

No one is entirely useless. Even the worst of us can serve as horrible examples.

The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.

He who excuses himself accuses himself. (Qui s'excuse s'accuse.)

The study of crime begins with the knowledge of oneself.

Fear succeeds crime - it is its punishment.

All punishment is mischief. All punishment in itself is evil.

Speaking generally punishment hardens and numbs it produces concentration it sharpens the consciousness of alienation it strengthens the power of resistance.

He only may chastise who loves.

If England treats her criminals the way she has treated me she doesn't deserve to have any.

It is fairly obvious that those who are in favour of the death penalty have more affinity with assassins than those who are not.

Prisons don't rehabilitate they don't punish they don't protect so what the hell do they do?

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.

The reformative effect of punishment is a belief that dies hard chiefly I think because it is so satisfying to our sadistic impulses.

Much as he is opposed to lawbreaking he is not bigoted about it.

Crime like virtue has its degrees.

Society prepares the crime the criminal commits it.

Many commit the same crimes with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime another a crown.

One crime is everything two nothing.

Whoever profits by the crime is guilty of it.

It is not the thief who is hanged but one who was caught stealing.

We enact many laws that manufacture criminals and then a few that punish them.

Yet each man kills the thing he loves By each let this be heard Some do it with a bitter look Some with a flattering word The coward does it with a kiss The brave man with a sword.

Regardless of the nature of their crime or any rehabilitation that may have occurred, these ex-felons cannot participate in the decision-making process of this great Nation.

An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship - it is a crime against our nature as human beings.

We won't sit idly by when a crime is committed in the real world. So why should we when it happens in cyber space?

A little of this caviar finds its way to the fish restaurants around Istanbul's Taksim Square, but the bulk is sent on to the United Arab Emirates to be enjoyed by wealthy Westerners and Arabs in the preposterous hotels that have set new standards in unnecessary opulence.

When you commit a crime to upgrade yourself, your sin becomes a blessing, but your blessing kills you before your time.

You see, it is my passionately held belief that the right to possess property is at best a contingent one. When disparities become too great, a superior right, that to life, outweighs the right to property. Ergo, the very poor have the right to steal from the very rich.

Sometimes while waiting for God's promises to come to pass, we messed up things and go into so many troubles, but God’s mercy has never failed in bringing us out of them all.

Human on human crimes should never be forgotten, or dismissed by time. We are all related here and are linked by spirit.

A single lie is the father of all lies

I guess my biggest problem is that I find it easier to relapse than to carry through.

When you're in the safety of the future, the past doesn't seem so relevant.

I was far too nervous to be concerned about contributing to the conversations.

I also smoked two cigarettes, which was pretty good considering I could have smoked five if I'd really tried.

You'll be making so much cash that you won't know what to waste it on.

My biggest problem is that my flight is to depart from Denpasar International Airport in Indonesia, where the penalty for drug trafficking is death by firing squad.

The day, like all good days, passed far too quickly.

She's happy to be home but being home means that it's an end to her adventure and escape.

Our bags will be light because it's the best way to travel.

I'd gotten on the piss and it had kicked me the fuck off. Hard.

Besides, if it was the wrong choice, what difference was one more bad decision going to make?

Your choices can only be limited by your mind.

Don't just hope, dear. Plan and do. Only reserve hope for the things you cannot control.

Living the rest of my life in Kerobokan, waiting to die, was what I had in front of me.

You need a break every once in a while to enjoy the everyday and you need the everyday to enjoy the break you take every once in a while.

Reassuring thoughts have a funny way of getting stuck on repeat. Then you wake up one day and you can't remember where you put the last thirty years of your life.

However, with a gut full of heroin, it's hard to be an optimist.

Can't get myself down by thinking about what could have been, right?

I'd gotten high enough to fly through time.

I figured this guy was a fair dinkum Australian. The type of guy that worked the land all day, cracked open a beer or two at night and called girls 'sheilas'.

That's one of those questions that you think of a better answer for five minutes after you've answered it.

I figured, what harm could come from a little bit of fun? Crabs. The Canadian girl gave me crabs.

I figured that maybe he was only hanging around for the tea and tobacco and when one ran out, so would he.

Sure, I might not be someone to look up to, but you're no role model either.

By the first mouthful I knew that I was going to get drunk that night. The drink tasted too good not to.

What's inside is none of your business. Your business is getting it for him and getting it to him.

Your choice is your choice and you need to accept what happens, not shift the blame to someone else if it doesn't turn out your way.