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Crime Quotes

It should never be a crime to be gay.

Hillary Clinton

Gay Crime Never Should

Among journalists, there is a saying: 'If it bleeds, it leads.' This can result in some serious hustling - and some serious sloppiness - whenever a crime occurs. The public's longing to see and hear salacious details is, basically, endless.

Saying Details Result Serious Crime

In researching 'The Luminaries,' I did read quite a lot of 20th-century crime. My favourites out of that were James M. Cain, Dassiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler and Graham Greene and Patricia Highsmith.

Crime Out Read Quite Did Were

Reactive and proactive policing are both necessary. Still, we need to lower expectations that such efforts can ever be responsive to crime.

Expectations Proactive Crime Need

You can, I think, have a quiet and steady protagonist and not run the risk of terminal dullness as long as exciting things happen to them and around them, and crime is the ideal genre for making this come about.

Think Long You Quiet Run Crime

Identity theft is a serious crime that affects millions of Americans each year.

Identity Year Serious Crime Theft

The Internet has made us richer, freer, connected and informed in ways its founders could not have dreamt of. It has also become a vector of attack, espionage, crime and harm.

Internet Connected Crime Become Us

No crime can ever be defended on rational grounds.

Crime Rational Ever Defended Grounds

Crime and the fear of crime have permeated the fabric of American life.

Warren E. Burger

Life Fear American Crime Fabric

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

Ernest Hemingway

War Think Crime Matter Never How

Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.

Jean Baudrillard

World Boredom Crime Worst First

It seems to me that one of the things that happened with a lot of literary fiction in the 1980s and 1990s was that it became very concerned with the academy and less with how people live their lives. We got to a point where the crime novel stepped into the breach. It was also a time when the crime novel stopped being so metropolitan.

Live Time People Me Crime Fiction

Surveillance cameras might reduce crime - even though the evidence here is mixed - but no studies show that they result in greater happiness of everyone involved.

Happiness Result Crime Evidence Here

In terms of justice, the most important thing is not to be part of organized crime.

Josefina Vazquez Mota

Justice Important Crime Organized

We see book-burning as a crime against humanity: it's intolerable because books represent a kind of freedom to us.

Samantha Harvey

Freedom Humanity Kind Crime See Us

If, at the limit, you can rule without crime, you cannot do so without injustices.

You Crime Limit Without Rule Cannot

Sometimes I find some movies patronizing, which I feel is the ultimate crime.

Feel Find Sometimes Movies Crime

The U.K. has some of the toughest legislation on hate crime in the world, and it is there to keep us all safe.

Hate World Crime Safe Legislation

You get rich through luck. You get rich through crime. You get rich through fulfilling the needs of another. You can be as greedy as you like. If you can't do one of those three things, you ain't going to get any money.

Money Luck Rich You Three Crime

Cellphones have, if nothing else, turned TV crime writers into lazy sloths.

Douglas Coupland

Lazy Nothing Crime TV Else Turned

I constantly remind people that crime isn't solved by technology; it's solved by people.

Patricia Cornwell

Technology People Crime Remind

It's not a crime to get drunk.

Drunk Crime Get

I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.

Law Crime Fail Committed Did Comply

Crime fiction is the fiction of social history. Societies get the crimes they deserve.

History Crime Deserve Fiction Social

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