Crime Quotes - Page 37

• Can you ever “solve” poverty?  Can you ever “solve” crime?  Can you ever “solve” disease, unemployment, war, or any other societal herpes?  Hell no.

  Max Brooks

  War, Unemployment, Disease

  Max Brooks (2006). “World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War”, p.61, Broadway Books

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• Horror and supernatural novels give you a lot of what you look for in a crime novel, just with a twist that was very fresh for me as a reader.

  Michael Koryta

  Crime Novels, Giving, Twists

  "Born Storyteller: An Interview With Michael Koryta, Author of So Cold the River". Interview with Jason Pinter, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 8, 2010.

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• The day after the attack, governor, I stood in the Rose Garden and I told the American people and the world that we are going to find out exactly what happened. That this was an act of terror and I also said that we're going to hunt down those who committed this crime.

  Barack Obama

  Garden, People, Rose

  Remarks by the President and Governor Romney in Second Presidential Debate, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. October 17, 2012.

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• Delaying and withholding tactics, red herrings, partial and doubtful outcomes are stock in trade for fiction writers, especially crime writers.

  Garry Disher

  Red, Fiction, Tactics

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• The wildest ride in modern crime novel exoticum. A novel so steeped in milieu that it feels as if you've blasted to mars in the grip of a demon who won't let you go. Read this book, savor the language-it's the last-and the most compelling word in thrillers.

  James Ellroy

  Book, Crime Novels, Mars

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• In everything I've written, the crime has always just been an occasion to write about other things. I don't have a picture of myself as writing crime novels. I like fairly strong narratives, but it's a way of getting a plot moving.

  Peter Temple

  Strong, Moving, Writing

  "The Book Show" with Ramona Koval, www.abc.net.au. June 18, 2006.

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• I think Melbourne is by far and away the most interesting place in Australia, and I thought if I ever wrote a novel or crime novel of any kind, I had to set it here.

  Peter Temple

  Thinking, Crime Novels, Australia

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• Crime is stupid, lazy and weak. You can only exploit it and make money out of it.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Stupid, Lazy, Making Money

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• In many ways, we've been taught to think that the real question is, do people deserve to die for the crimes they've committed? And that's a very sensible question. But there's another way of thinking about where we are in our identity. The other way of thinking about it is not, do people deserve to die for the crimes they commit, but do we deserve to kill?

  Bryan Stevenson

  Real, Thinking, People

  "We need to talk about an injustice". TED Talk, www.ted.com. March 2012.

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• Anyone, any type of story, it doesnt have to be a crime victim, you dont have to let yourself be food for the media.

  Bernhard Goetz

  Media, Stories, Victim

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• We join Armenians around the world as we remember the terrible massacres suffered in 1915-1923 at the hands of the rulers of the Ottoman Empire. The United States responded to this crime against humanity by leading diplomatic and private relief efforts.

  George H. W. Bush

  Hands, Effort, Humanity

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• The true criminal must be defined as a man who commits a crime though he is as decently fed and clothed as others.

  Yoshida Kenko

  Men, Criminals, Feds

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• I think the scariest addiction on this planet is to alcohol. Because alcohol is a very addictive drug, and it ruins families, it ruins relationships. And it is socially acceptable, and it is easy to find. Controlled substances, other drugs are more difficult to get, and it's a crime to... to buy them. But alcohol is everywhere. And if you are unfortunate enough to become addicted to it, it can be disastrous. And there is still a stigma attached to alcohol addiction, or addiction in general. It is perceived as... an addict is perceived as somebody of weak moral fiber

  Brian Molko

  Thinking, Moral Fiber, Addiction

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• ...we are saved by Christ alone who raises us from the dead - from the absolution of our death. We come before him at the judgement with no handwriting whatsoever against us. It's simply cheating to say you believe that and then renege on it by postulating some list of extra-rotten crimes for which Christ has to send you to hell. He, the universal Redeemer, is the only judge; as far as he's concerned, the only mandatory sentence is to life and life abundant.

  Robert Farrar Capon

  Cheating, Believe, Judging

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• The Armenian massacre was the greatest crime of the war.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  War, Armenia, Genocide

  Theodore Roosevelt (1954). “Letters: The days of Armageddon, 1909-1914”

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• A work of art should be like a well-planned crime.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Art, Should, Wells

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• The best way to look at countries on a map is like a chalk outline drawn by the police when someone dies what you are seeing with the borders are just outlines of historical crimes past warlords empires its nothing to be loyal to. Have loyalty to reason, to evidence, to ideals not to lines drawn up mostly by criminals.

  Stefan Molyneux

  Loyalty, Country, Past

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• Rigorously investigated and fearlessly reported, A Crime So Monstrous is a passionate and thorough examination of the appalling reality of human bondage in today's world. In his devastating narrative, Ben Skinner boldly casts light on the unthinkable, yet thriving, modern-day practice of slavery, exposing a global trade in human lives. The abuses detailed in these pages are repugnant, but there is hope to be found: by giving voice to the victims, Skinner helps restore their dignity and makes crucial strides toward closing this shameful chapter in history.

  William J. Clinton

  Reality, Practice, Voice

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• ... the Athenian lawmaker Solon decreed it a crime for any citizen to shrink from controversy.

  John F. Kennedy

  Atheism, Citizens, Lawmakers

  Address to the American Newspaper Publishers, delivered 27 April 1961, Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York

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• On the Continent, every attempt to substitute a lighter punishment for death was fiercely denounced as a direct violation of the Divine law. Indeed, some persons went so far as to question the lawfulness of strangling the witch before she was burnt. Her crime, they said, was treason against the Almighty, and therefore to punish it by any but the most agonizing deaths was an act of disrespect to Him. Besides, the penalty in the Levitical code was stoning, and stoning had been pronounced by the Jewish theologians to be a still more painful death than the stake.

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky

  Law, Painful Death, Punishment

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• Figures cannot calculate the amount collected by those public and private robbers: it is more than would liberate every slave in the United States; it would pay the British debt! They say, We do not force people to give. I see no difference between forcing a man out of his money, at the mouth of a pistol, and forcing it from by trick and cunning; the crime is the same.

  Anne Royall

  Men, Differences, People

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• The Crime, from us, is hidden, [though] he is presumed to know.

  Emily Dickinson

  Atheism, Positive Atheism, Knows

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• The intellectual world is deeply conformist... We talk a lot about the crimes of others. When it comes to our own crimes, we are nationalists in the Orwellian sense.

  Noam Chomsky

  Intellectual, World, Orwellian

  "The United States Has Essentially a One-Party System". Interview with Gabor Steingart, www.spiegel.de. October 10, 2008.

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• I hate superheroes. I always hated superheroes. From the time I was a little kid, I could believe in a 50-foot gorilla trashing New York City before I could believe a guy would put on long tights and bat ears and go and fight crime. Like, the fantasy never made sense to me, on a basic level.

  Stephen R. Bissette

  New York, Hate, Believe

  Interview with Chris Dahlen, www.avclub.com. July 23, 2009.

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• I committed the first crime by creating men as mortals. After that, what more could you do, you the murderers? Come on; they already had death in them: at most you simply hastened things a little.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Men, Creating, Guilt

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