785 quotes found
“In many criminals, especially youthful ones, it is possible to detect a very powerful sense of guilt which existed before the crime, and is therefore not its result but its motive. It is as if it w...”
“But he had been the victim of the worlds most common crimehis youth had been kidnapped by a thing called time. It had likely also been raped, dismembered, and buried somewhere never to be seen again”
“Not failure, but low aim, is crime.”
“I absolutely adore classic crime and read a huge amount as a teen - Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, Sherlock Holmes, Josephine Tey, and many more.”
“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.”
“For some, the very act of intelligence gathering seems illegitimate when applied to the crime of terrorism.”
“No crime is so great as daring to excel.”
“Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.”
“I make movies for teenage boys. Oh dear, what a crime.”
“Crime does not pay as well as politics.”
“One way to make sure crime doesn't pay would be to let the government run it.”
“The whole duty of government is to prevent crime and to preserve contracts.”
“Anyone who regards poetry as an entertainment, as a 'read,' commits an anthropological crime, in the first place against himself.”
“Solitary confinement is too terrible a punishment to inflict on any human being, no matter what his crime. Hardened criminals in the men's prisons, it is said, often beg for the lash instead.”
“Crime is a fact of the human species, a fact of that species alone, but it is above all the secret aspect, impenetrable and hidden. Crime hides, and by far the most terrifying things are those whic...”
“Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.”
“The reformative effect of punishment is a belief that dies hard chiefly I think because it is so satisfying to our sadistic impulses.”
“Much as he is opposed to lawbreaking he is not bigoted about it.”
“Crime like virtue has its degrees.”
“Society prepares the crime the criminal commits it.”
