Crime Quotes - Page 39

• Trying to conceal a crime is like burying a seed in the ground.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Trying, Burying, Seeds

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• It's strange that men should take up crime when there are so many legal ways to be dishonest.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Sarcastic, Sarcasm, Men

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• The function of the prosecutor under the federal Constitution is not to tack as many skins of victims as possible against the wall. His function is to vindicate the rights of the people as expressed in the laws and give those accused of crime a fair trial.

  William O. Douglas

  Wall, Rights, Law

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• I only do business with the people I do business with. The people I do business with find out I do business with the people I don't do business with.... I can't do business with you.

  John Guare

  Business, People, I Can

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• With five to ten hundred pure-minded young women threading the streets of the village every evening unattended, vice must slink away, like frost before the rising sun.

  Anna Julia Cooper

  Rose, Vices, Frost

  Anna Julia Cooper (2016). “A Voice from the South”, p.24, Courier Dover Publications

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• Each man's private conscience ought to be a nice little self-registering thermometer: he ought to carry his moral code incorruptibly and explicitly within himself, and not care what the world thinks. The mass of human beings, however, are not made that way; and many people have been saved from crime or sin by the simple dislike of doing things they would not like to confess.

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  Nice, Simple, Men

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”

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• If you are passed out drunk or if there is a gun to your head, it is the same crime. It is a crime where there is not consent. It is a felony. And we need to start making sure victims understand that, so they don't do the self blame.

  Claire McCaskill

  Reality, Gun, Self

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• It is the will of God that we must have critics, and missionaries, and Congressmen, and humorists, and we must bear the burden. Meantime, I seem to have been drifting into criticism myself. But that is nothing. At the worst, criticism is nothing more than a crime, and I am not unused to that.

  Mark Twain

  Criticism, Bears, Burden

  Mark Twain, Harriet Elinor Smith (2012). “Autobiography of Mark Twain: Reader's Edition”, p.201, Univ of California Press

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• A grifter's got an irresistible urge to be the guy who's wise. There's nothin' to whipping a fool. Hell, fools are made to be whipped. But to take another pro. Even your partner, who knows you and has his eye on you. That's a score! No matter what happens.

  Donald E. Westlake

  Wise, Cheating, Eye

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• There is a fascination about crime, which is understandable, but hardly anyone talks about the families of victims of violent crime and the devastation that is beyond the victim alone.

  Werner Herzog

  Fascination, Devastation, Victim

  "Werner Herzog's Abyss Stares Back". Interview with Leah Carroll, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 10, 2011.

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• On the other side, the conservative party, composed of the most moderate, able, and cultivated part of the population, is timid, and merely defensive of property. It vindicates no right, it aspires to no real good, it brands no crime, it proposes no generous policy, it does not build, nor write, nor cherish the arts, nor foster religion, nor establish schools, nor encourage science, nor emancipate the slave, nor befriend the poor, or the Indian, or the immigrant.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Real, Writing

  Essays, Second Series "Politics" (1844)

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• Saddam Hussein is about to face trial and George Bush wants to execute him. Not because of the war crimes, but because Saddam is beating him in the polls.

  Craig Kilborn

  War, Trials, Hussein

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• When poor and ordinary Americans who commit crimes are prosecuted and imprisoned, that is Justice. When the same thing is done to Washington elites, that is Ugly Retribution.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Justice, Ordinary, Done

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• Though we may not desire to detect fraud, we must not, on that account, endeavor to be insensible of it, for, as cunning is a crime, so is duplicity a fault, and if men dread knaves, they also despise fools.

  Norm MacDonald

  Men, Duplicity, Desire

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• There are bad examples which are worse than crimes; and more states have perished from the violation of morality than from the violation of law.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Law, Example, Morality

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• Some people think the Federal Reserve Banks are US government institutions. They are not... they are private credit monopolies which prey upon the people of the US for the benefit of themselves and their foreign and domestic swindlers, and rich and predatory money lenders. The sack of the United States by the Fed is the greatest crime in history. Every effort has been made by the Fed to conceal its powers, but the truth is the Fed has usurped the government. It controls everything here and it controls all our foreign relations. It makes and breaks governments at will.

  Louis Thomas McFadden

  Money, Thinking, Government

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• Whatever of goodness emanates from the soul, gathers its soft halo in the eyes; and if the heart be a lurking place of crime, the eyes are sure to betray the secret. A beautiful eye makes silence eloquent, a kind eye makes contradiction assent, an enraged eye makes beauty a deformity; so you see, forsooth, the little organ plays no inconsiderable, if not a dominant, part.

  Arthur Frederick Saunders

  Beautiful, Eye, Heart

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• Trying a case a second time is like eating yesterday morning's oatmeal.

  Lloyd Paul Stryker

  Morning, Oatmeal, Yesterday

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• Few criminals die sensible of their crimes.

  Norm MacDonald

  Criminals, Sensible, Dies

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• A range of studies shows there is no evidence immigrants commit more crime than native-born Americans. In fact, first generation immigrants are predisposed to lower crime rates than native-born Americans. The two cities in this country most impacted by undocumented immigrants, you would think of the New York City with over 500,000 and Los Angeles, with a similar amount. Both those cities are among the safest in the free world.

  Geraldo Rivera

  Country, New York, Thinking

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I cannot avoid wondering about the feelings of those who are now the apparent rulers of Iran. They are, despite their mistakes and the crimes which they have instigated, men of faith who claim to be sent by God. I hope they will eventually realize that the revolution which they believe they have brought about is not to the glory of God, but serves the forces of evil.

  Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

  Mistake, Believe, Men

  "The Shah's Story". Book by Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, p. 167, 1980.

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• When you're smart on crime, you start off by recognizing that both the victim, first of all, the victim, but also the person who did the crime are both human.

  Benjamin Jealous

  Smart, Firsts, Victim

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• [T]here is only one sound argument for democracy, and that is the argument that it is a crime for any man to hold himself out as better than other men, and, above all, a most heinous offense for him to prove it.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Democracy, Sound

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.163, Vintage

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• Reading Tomato Red-the first Daniel Woodrell novel I came upon-was a transformative experience. It expanded my sense of the possibilities not only of crime fiction, but of fiction itself-of language, of storytelling. Time and again, his work just dazzles and humbles me. God bless Busted Flush for these glorious reissues. It's a service to readers everywhere, and a great gift.

  Megan Abbott

  Reading, Tomatoes, Fiction

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• Every criminal leaves psychic fingerprints. And he can't wear gloves to hide them.

  Helen McCloy

  Psychics, Criminals, Gloves

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