Crime Quotes - page 10

I believe I could commit a crime. We all can. It depends on which situations we find ourselves in. In despair, I would steal food if my children were hungry. (Karin Fossum)
All novels are about crime. You'd be hard pressed to find any novel that does not have an element of crime. I don't see myself as a crime novelist, but there are crimes in my books. That's the nature of storytelling, if you want to reflect the real world. View quote
Carl Hiaasen
War of aggression, war which does not imply defense of one's country, is a collective crime. View quote
Carlos Saavedra Lamas
...but now the worst crime was pretending to be something you were not. View quote
Alice Hoffman
It's actually a smarter crime because imagine if you rob a bank, or you're dealing drugs. If you get caught you're going to spend a lot of time in custody. But with hacking, it's much easier to commit the crime and the risk of punishment is slim to none. View quote
Kevin Mitnick
My argument is not that I shouldn't have been punished, but that the punishment didn't fit the crime. View quote
Kevin Mitnick
We got into all the trouble you could ever imagine. We figured that if the Jones boys and all the gangsters ran Chicago, we had our own territory now. All the stores, all the crime, we were in charge of everything, my stepbrother and my brother. View quote
Quincy Jones
I'm just an entertainer. In a way crime stories are boring. A crime's been committed and at the end you know it will be solved. So you've got to make the story interesting besides it just being a plot. And that's why character matters, why you've got to make the characters interesting. View quote
Jo Nesbo
I don't really consider any of my novels 'crime' novels. View quote
Megan Abbott
I wanted to show that crime doesn't pay. If you are saved and accept the Lord, you cannot use that as an excuse to avoid punishment. View quote
Robert Duvall
To make crime unprofitable, let the government run it. (Irene Peter)
One must live with all, e'en if life be hell: Crime makes shame, not monetary stricture. View quote
Multatuli
The criminal law needs to be improved to meet new forms of crime, but to denounce financial devices which are useful and legitimate because use is made of them for fraud, is ridiculous and unworthy of the age in which we live. View quote
William Graham Sumner
Crime rates and irresponsibility among Negroes are facts of life which must be faced. View quote
Jesse Helms
The accomplice to the crime of corruption is frequently our own indifference. View quote
Bess Myerson
Behind every crime is a story of sadness. View quote
Enrique Pena Nieto
I'm going to be 58, and I'm a woman. In this business, that seems to be a bigger crime than being mentally ill. View quote
Patty Duke
What I'm trying to say is the Holocaust was a horrific crime against humanity and frankly, I would never want to see that repeated. View quote
Paul LePage
Venezuelans are tired of 14 years of promises and no results. The only things growing are inflation, murder and crime. The good indicators - production, education and jobs - are all falling. View quote
Henrique Capriles Radonski
Things every person should have: •A nemesis. •An evil twin. •A secret headquarters. •An escape hatch. •A partner in crime. •A secret identity. View quote
Wil Wheaton
What becomes a crime deserving capital punishment when the tables are turned is a matter of small moment when the negro woman is the accusing party. (Ida B. Wells-Barnett)
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. View quote
Ida B. Wells-Barnett
The negro has suffered far more from the commission of this crime against the women of his race by white men than the white race has ever suffered through his crimes. View quote
Ida B. Wells-Barnett
To restrict the artist is a crime. It is to murder germinating life. View quote
Egon Schiele
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. View quote
Sebastian Junger