Crime Quotes - Page 23

• Beheading, burying and burning humans alive are extreme acts of cruelty. Such crimes against humanity must be investigated and the guilty parties brought to justice. May ALL victims rest in peace!

  Widad Akrawi

  Rest In Peace, Party, Justice

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• In the name of a greater civilization, we curse those who for the sake of their ambitious dreams, brought about the massacre of so many young lives. No matter how brutal the crime, you will always get glorification of its heroism and tradition from the eunuchs of bourgeois culture.

  Amadeo Bordiga

  Dream, Civilization, Names

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• President Obama has reduced the sentences of 22 federal prisoners who were arrested for drug-related crimes - eight of whom were serving life sentences. It marks the first time someone has said 'Thanks Obama' but actually meant it.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Eight, Drug, President

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• One gets a cross for his crime, the other a crown.

  Juvenal

  Crowns, Crosses

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• The conventional wisdom is often wrong. Crime didn't keep soaring in the 1990s, money alone doesn't win elections, and - surprise - drinking eight glasses of water a day has never actually been shown to do a thing for your health. Conventional wisdom is often shoddily formed and devilishly difficult to see through, but it can be done.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Pain, Drinking, Winning

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• Today the crime novelist has one advantage denied to writers of 'straight' or 'literary' novels. Unlike them he can range over all levels of society, for crime can easily breach the barriers that exist in our stratified society. Because of these barriers the modern literary novel, unlike its 19th-century predecessors, is often confined to the horizontal, dealing only with one class. But crime runs through society from top to bottom, and so the crime novelist can present a fuller picture of the way we live now.

  Allan Massie

  Running, Book, Class

  Allan Massie (2013). “Life & Letters: The Spectator Columns”, Quartet Books (UK)

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• We ought to be very cautious and circumspect in the prosecution of magic and heresy. The attempt to put down these two crimes may be extremely perilous to liberty.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Wisdom, Two, Magic

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• We are not supposed to go out and kill all those we suspect to have committed a crime.

  Bianca Jagger

  Committed, Suspects

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• It has been asserted, that a moral Atheist would be a monster beyond the power of nature to create: I reply, that it is not more strange for an Atheist to live virtuously, than for a Christian to abandon himself to crime! If we believe the last kind of monster, why dispute the existence of the first?

  Pierre Bayle

  Christian, Atheist, Believe

  Pierre Bayle (1826). “An Historical and Critical Dictionary”, p.169

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• Atheists are often charged with blasphemy, but it is a crime they cannot commit... When the Atheist examines, denounces, or satirises the gods, he is not dealing with persons but with ideas. He is incapable of insulting God, for he does not admit the existence of any such being... We attack not a person but a belief, not a binge but an idea, not a fact but a fancy.

  George William Foote

  Atheist, Ideas, Insulting

  "Who Are the Blasphemers? (June 1882)". "Flowers of Freethought". Book by George William Foote, p. 112, www.ftarchives.net. 1893.

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• The coverage [of crimes] is different. It's less angry when white [athletes] are involved, less accusatory, less judgemental. I see that in the pieces that are written and reported. At times it bothers me to the point that I just stop reading...just stop.

  Michael Wilbon

  Reading, Athlete, White

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I moved to New York and was told, "Go back home. We don't need you. Go pump gas. You're from Vermont. We've got no use for you. You're not drawing guys in tights." So, I learned how to draw guys in tights, and I put them in as many crime situations as I could.

  Frank Miller

  New York, Home, Drawing

  Source: collider.com

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• Prosecutors tend to love conspiracy charges because the rules of evidence are easier, meaning you can get more in to help prove a crime.

  David Shuster

  Helping, Conspiracy, Easier

  "Hardball" with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. October 18, 2005.

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• In crime fiction, I just don't write the parts that aren't a thriller and it's exactly the same in my TV reporting - I distill the essence of the story until it's only the jewels of the tale - and leave in only the most compelling and exciting parts.

  Hank Phillippi Ryan

  Writing, Essence, Jewels

  "Interview: Hank Phillippi Ryan, 'The Other Woman'". Interview with Pamela Clare, happyeverafter.usatoday.com. October 4, 2012.

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• Show me the man and I’ll find you the crime.

  Lavrentiy Beria

  Men, He Man, Show Me

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• If a law could keep dangerous weapons out of the hands of dangerous people, there would be virtually no gun crime at all.

  Harry Browne

  Gun, Hands, Law

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• The greater the crime perpetrated by the leadership, the less likely it is that the people will ever believe their leaders to be capable of perpetrating such an event.

  Adolf Hitler

  Believe, People, Leader

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• Street photography is art and if art is a crime, please God, forgive me.

  Thomas Leuthard

  Photography, Art, Forgive Me

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• Most crime fiction plots are not ambitious enough for me. I want something really labyrinthine with clues and puzzles that will reward careful attention.

  Sophie Hannah

  Want Something, Ambitious, Rewards

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• If we're going to kill our own people without even charging them with a crime, well, then we should just say we live in a different country, and stop telling the world that we're the sort of great, shining city on the hill.

  Jeremy Scahill

  Country, Cities, People

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• Every time that a people which has long crouched in slavery and ignorance is moved to its lowest depths there appear monsters and heroes, prodigies of crime and prodigies of virtue.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Hero, Ignorance, Long

  Alphonse de Lamartine (1849). “History of the Girondists: Or, Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French Revolution. From Unpublished Sources”, p.455

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• I have doubtless erred more or less in politics, but a crime I never committed.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Politics, Committed

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• Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.

  Tacitus

  Vigor, Delay, Gains

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• Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.

  Tacitus

  Purpose

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• Wit implies hatred or contempt of folly and crime, produces its effects by brisk shocks of surprise, uses the whip of scorpions and the branding-iron, stabs, stings, pinches, tortures, goads, teases, corrodes, undermines.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Iron, Hatred, Scorpions

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1851). “Literature and life, lects”, p.46

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