Crime Quotes - Page 36

• You'll see more violence in any television crime series than you will in my films Art is there to have a stimulating effect, if it earns its name. You have to be honest, that's the only thing.

  Michael Haneke

  Art, Names, Violence

  "Michael Haneke: 'There is as much evil in us as there is good'". Interview With Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. October 24, 2009.

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• In a mystery, the sleuth must be believably involved and emotionally invested in solving the crime.

  Diane Mott Davidson

  Mystery, Involved

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• After I outlined 'Catering to Nobody,' I went and worked for a caterer. And the other thing I had to do was to talk to the Jefferson County Sheriff's Department about how they investigated a crime.

  Diane Mott Davidson

  Sheriffs, Catering, County

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• The police can't use clubs or gas or dogs. I suppose they will have to use poison ivy.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Dog, Punishment, Ivy

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• The crime should be punished no matter whether poverty or wealth caused it to occur, because the crime is wrong.

  Ernest Van den Haag

  Punishment, Matter, Poverty

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• Any time you have poverty, joblessness, sub-par public schools, and a lack of opportunity, you're going to have a high rate of crime.

  George Pelecanos

  School, Opportunity, Poverty

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. September 19, 2001.

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• The most popular American fiction seems to be about successful people who win, and good crime fiction typically does not explore that world. But honestly, if all crime fiction was quality fiction, it would be taken more seriously.

  George Pelecanos

  Taken, Successful, Winning

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. September 19, 2001.

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• The reason some crime writers have a chip on their shoulder about the label is because their good books are shelved beside books about nuns and birdwatchers and cats who solve crimes. Overseas, my books are reviewed alongside those of authors like Robert Stone and Don DeLillo, and I have to live and die by that comparison. They don't ghettoize crime writers in other countries, and of course they shouldn't.

  George Pelecanos

  Country, Book, Cat

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. September 19, 2001.

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• A visionary company is like a great work of art. Think of Michelangelo's scenes from Genesis on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel or his statue of David. Think of a great and enduring novel like Huckleberry Finn or Crime and Punishment. Think of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony or Shakespeare's Henry V. Think of a beautifully designed building, like the masterpieces of Frank Lloyd Wright or Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. You can't point to any one single item that makes the whole thing work; it's the entire work-all the pieces working together to create an overall effect-that leads to enduring greatness.

  John C. Maxwell

  Art, Greatness, Thinking

  John C. Maxwell (2003). “Thinking for a Change: 11 Ways Highly Successful People Approach Life and Work”, p.15, Hachette UK

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• I am thy father's spirit;
  Doom'd for a certain term to walk the night
  And, for the day, confin'd to fast in fires,
  Till the foul crimes, done in my days of nature,
  Are burnt and purg'd away.

  William Shakespeare

  Father, Night, Fire

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens, Isaac Reed (1778). “The Plays of William Shakespeare in Ten Volumes: With Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.215

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• Christian ethics demand that you should not take revenge. The paradox is, naturally, that Christians worship a God who is the greatest avenger of them all. Defy him and you burn in eternal hell, an act of revenge which is completely out of proportion to the crime

  Jo Nesbo

  Christian, Revenge, Demand

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• I wasn't that into crime novels at all, but a friend introduced me to the work of Jim Thompson - I loved all his books.

  Jo Nesbo

  Book, Crime Novels, Novel

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• When there is crime in society, there is no justice.

  Plato

  Justice

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• Any open net was an unforgivable crime meriting immediate punishment, and [Di Stefano] carried out the sentence by stabbing at it like a mischievous elf.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Punishment, Unforgivable, Stabbing

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• The Scooby gang doesn't travel because they are looking for crimes to solve. They travel because they're one step ahead of the deprogrammers. Somehow, Fred's got them all snookered. It probably has something to do with the Scooby Snacks.

  John Scalzi

  Snacks, Steps, Gang

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• Violating the 4th Amendment guarantees against illegal searches and seizures is not the way to solve crime problems.

  Tim Wise

  Guarantees, Way, Problem

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• You're going to see crime levels in America that are going to rival that of a Third World country. Welcome Mexico City. You're going to start seeing people being kidnapped in this country like they do in other underdeveloping nations. It's going to be very violent in America.

  Gerald Celente

  Country, Cities, America

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• The people are angry. It's running out of control. And unfortunately, there are a group of police that have become nothing more than enforcers for the political and financial crime bosses.

  Gerald Celente

  Running, People, Boss

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• I will maintain the presence of a Mexican Army, and the Navy and police in the states of the Mexican Republic, where the problem of crime has increased.

  Enrique Pena Nieto

  Army, Mexican, Police

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• Behind every crime is a story of sadness.

  Enrique Pena Nieto

  Sadness, Stories, Behinds

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• The value of a dollar is to buy just things; a dollar goes on increasing in value with all the genius and all the virtue of the world. A dollar in a university is worth more than a dollar in a jail; in a temperate, schooled, law-abiding community than in some sink of crime, where dice, knives, and arsenic are in constant play.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Money, Law, Knives

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.630, Modern Library

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• The rumors of Frank Sinatras violence and his ties to organized crime were such that journalists joked in print about me ending up in concrete boots and sleeping with the fishes if I proceeded to write his biography.

  Kitty Kelley

  Writing, Sleep, Ties

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• Like crime, terrorism is a fact of life. I grew up in Israel, where every unattended bag was a suspected bomb; when my family moved for a few years, it was to London in the early years of the Troubles.

  Yochai Benkler

  Israel, Years, Facts

  "Manning and Snowden light path for the US to return to its better self" by Yochai Benkler, www.theguardian.com. July 26, 2013.

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• Thus, after a period of about two thousand years the greatest crime became to worship a god other than the God of Moses, whereas injustice became a minor sin. I began to ask myself how this change had come about. Was it linked to a new order in which the female goddesses had been replaced by one male god?

  Nawal El Saadawi

  Order, Years, Two

  Nawal El Saadawi (2013). “Walking through Fire: The Later Years of Nawal El Saadawi”, p.108, Zed Books Ltd.

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• Gun control responsibilities are taking police officers off the street and adding to crime.

  Stockwell Day

  Responsibility, Gun, Police

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