We cannot lightly allow the perpetrator of a serious crime to go free simply because that person believed his actions were reasonable and necessary to prevent some perceived harm.
Sol Wachtler
FreePersonGoSeriousCrimeHarm
My first book deal was for two Mark Genevich novels. I hadn't planned on writing a second Genevich novel, but I was contracted to do so, and so there I was being introduced as a crime writer.
Paul G. Tremblay
WritingBookCrimeFirstTwoMark
The guitar saved me from a life of crime as a teenager.
Myles Kennedy
LifeMeGuitarCrimeSavedTeenager
There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.
Simone Weil
JusticeSocietyCrimeMoreModern
You never know what's going to happen when somebody endeavors to do a true crime story. It can be horribly misleading.
Marcia Clark
StoryYouKnowTrueCrimeNever
Crime fiction makes money. It may be harder for writers to get published, but crime is doing better than most of what we like to call CanLit. It's elementary, plot-driven, character-rich story-telling at its best.
Linwood Barclay
BestMoneyBetterDoingCrimeMay
If it is committed in the name of God or country, there is no crime so heinous that the public will not forgive it.
Tom Robbins
GodNameCountryCrimeWillForgive
British crime stories tend to be very internal, psychological, claustrophobic, very limited in terms of geography.
Lee Child
GeographyCrimeBritishStoriesVery
Crime fiction is the new rock n' roll.
Ken Bruen
NewCrimeRockFictionRoll
I love all kinds of movies. I'd especially like to make some, you know, violent crime drama.
Rob Zombie
LoveYouDramaKnowMoviesCrime
The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers.
Jacques Barzun
CrimeWillMoreFictionDangerMay
I am fascinated by crime scene investigating. I swear, I wish I was a crime scene investigator sometimes!
Kim Kardashian
I AmWishSometimesCrimeI Wish
The use of hunger as a weapon of political control is a crime against humanity.
Robert Zubrin
ControlPoliticalHumanityCrimeUse
Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?
George Carlin
FreedomFireFightCrimeNeverWell
I have been reading crime books ever since I was a child, but I had never tried to write one.
Kerry Greenwood
ChildReadingCrimeNeverWrite
I absolutely adore classic crime and read a huge amount as a teen - Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, Sherlock Holmes, Josephine Tey, and many more.
Ruth Ware
TeenCrimeMoreClassicAbsolutely
When you're a crime reporter, you see the nub of what life's about, and you don't have much patience for the falsity of politics.
Heather Brooke
LifePatiencePoliticsYouCrime
Where previously the international underworld was a world of local, often-warring mafia territories, it has become globalised. The criminal has become corporate, and the corporate has become criminal. Organised crime has become very organised indeed.
James Watkins
WorldCrimeBecomeMafiaCriminal
If you are going to break a Law of Art, make the crime interesting.
Mason Cooley
ArtLawInterestingYouCrimeBreak
I have never been on the receiving end of a hate crime, or even a disparaging remark to my face.
Carol Anshaw
HateFaceEndCrimeNeverBeen
Mass incarceration and its never-ending human toll will be with us until we come to see that no crime justifies permanent civic death.
James Forman, Jr.
DeathCrimeWillHumanSeeCivic
First of all, I'm in favor of making price gouging a crime, and in fact, one the reasons I didn't vote for the Republican House version was because there were too many breaks for the oil companies.
Marty Meehan
HousePriceVoteCrimeOilFirst
You've got a guy in a cape and tights running around fighting crime 24-7; this is not normal. But it worked because the kids loved it and the adults laughed with it.
Adam West
LovedFightingYouCrimeNormalGuy
To let politics become a cesspool, and then avoid it because it is a cesspool, is a double crime.
Howard Crosby
PoliticsCrimeBecomeDoubleAvoid
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