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Crime Quotes

How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!

Michel de Montaigne

Crime More Criminal Than How Many

Crime fiction, especially noir and hardboiled, is the literature of the proletariat.

Literature Crime Fiction Noir

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.

Henrique Capriles Radonski

Education Good Tired Promises Crime

I'm very critical of crime novels that use gratuitous violence to shock readers when it isn't necessary. If that's all you have to offer as a writer, perhaps you're in the wrong job.

Michael Robotham

Job Violence You Wrong Crime Offer

When I was writing 'The Luminaries,' I read a lot of crime novels because I wanted to figure out which ones made me go, 'Ah! I didn't know that was coming!'

Me Writing Go Know Crime Out

We are among the handful of countries that has difficulty distinguishing juveniles from adults where crime is concerned. We are convinced that if a child commits an adult crime, that kid is magically transformed into an adult. Consequently, we try juveniles as adults.

Child Crime Try Kid Difficulty

He has committed the crime who profits by it.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Crime Who Committed He Profits

There is no bigger crime, in the English comic novel, than thinking you are right.

Thinking You Crime Right Bigger

Sometimes I think 'The Wire' said it all, and I might as well not write any more crime novels.

George Pelecanos

Think Said Sometimes Crime Write

If you commit a crime, you maybe have to be haunted.

You Crime Commit Haunted Maybe

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

Peace War Civilization Crime Virtue

But what sin is to the moralist and crime to the jurist so to the scientific man is ignorance.

Frederick Soddy

Ignorance Man Sin Crime Scientific

Poverty may be the mother of crime, but lack of good sense is the father.

Jean de la Bruyere

Good Father Mother Poverty Crime

In families like mine, there is no crime worse than telling the truth.

Truth Crime Telling The Truth Mine

Window-breaking, when Englishmen do it, is regarded as honest expression of political opinion. Window-breaking, when Englishwomen do it, is treated as a crime.

Emmeline Pankhurst

Opinion Political Crime Expression

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

Poetry Place Entertainment Crime Who

The most common things I would go out for would be, like, 'the Lab Technician' on a crime procedural, usually an expert in either a medical or a computer-oriented field.

Medical Go Crime Expert Out Things

I read all the Agatha Christies when I was younger and like Sherlock Holmes. Crime fiction has always fascinated me, but I'll read anything anyone gives me.

Me Crime Always Fiction Anything

Gun crime is a major cause of fear and distress throughout the UK. The problem is deeply entrenched in a wide range of social and cultural factors and therefore not an isolated issue.

Fear Gun Problem Crime Social Range

He told us he was going to take crime out of the streets. He did. He took it into the damn White House.

Ralph Abernathy

House White Damn Crime Out Streets

Roll back the clock, and every possession of every great country started with a crime.

Great Back Country Crime Clock Roll

Liquor prohibition led to the rise of organized crime in America, and drug prohibition has led to the rise of the gang problems we have now.

Problems America Rise Now Crime Led

To open his lips is crime in a plain citizen.

Lips Citizen Crime Open Plain His

In my home State of Minnesota, I have seen firsthand the importance of Byrne grants to local police in reducing crime and drugs and improving public safety.

Home Police Safety Crime Improving

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