- Conspiracies
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- Nov 07, 2020
Crime Quotes
Crime, fear, and what a society owes the victim.
This crime quotes collection includes a stark line about crime and its fear shaping American life, and a pointed connection drawn between illiteracy and resorting to crime. See Criminal Justice quotes for related themes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Devil
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's my sense of how crime works: that it's not any kind of calculated evil driven by the devil, but just control disintegrating.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I tell people the first time I decided to write a novel I was in my mid-20s, and it was, 'Well, it's time to see if I can do this.' I basically flipped a coin to see if I was going to write science fiction or if I was going to do a crime novel. The coin toss went to science fiction.
- Databases
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- Nov 07, 2020
U.S. computer networks and databases are under daily cyber attack by nation states, international crime organizations, subnational groups, and individual hackers.
- Nov 07, 2020
Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, I'm concerned about the recklessness of public policy that endangers people's lives, especially in minority communities, where crime often is such a scourge.
- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anyone can be falsely accused of a crime. Everyone accused of a crime deserves a fair trial.
- Fiction
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a very conservative element of crime writers that don't recognise what I do is crime fiction.
- Nov 07, 2020
I have, at times, not been totally on the same page as some of my previous partners in crime.
- King
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was the king's army, the king's people, the king's taxes; and he who questioned the propriety of the royal prerogative of taking from his people without return or accounting, was reckoned, and felt himself to be, a criminal, guilty of the highest crime of disloyalty.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
With the crime novels, it's delightful to have protagonists I can revisit in book after book. It's like having a fictitious family.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
That is why I come forward tonight without any political label, without any bias, but just simply as an Englishman to say to you: a crime is being committed against civilization.
- Help
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- Nov 07, 2020
It doesn't help to wait until something happens and then prosecute the offenders, especially if it's the idea of the offender to extinguish himself in the commission of the crime.
- Punishment
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- Nov 07, 2020
The way the terrorist is trained to operate, especially the suicide terrorists, makes punishment and the threat of punishment far less valuable to those who would prevent the crime.
- Against
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's definitely a fascination with crime stories and stories of characters acting out against authority.
- Get
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- Nov 07, 2020