An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship - it is a crime against our nature as human beings.
~ Salman Rushdie
Regardless of the nature of their crime or any rehabilitation that may have occurred, these ex-felons cannot participate in the decision-making process of this great Nation.
~ Charles B. Rangel
The death penalty is discriminatory and does not do anything about crime.
~ Bobby Scott
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.
~ Ruth Ware
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.
~ Evgeny Morozov
As far as U.S. intelligence knows, Iran is developing nuclear capacities, but they don't know if they are trying to develop nuclear weapons or not. Chances are they're developing what's called 'nuclear capability,' which many states have. That is the ability to have nuclear weapons if they decide to do it. That's not a crime.
~ Noam Chomsky
For some, the very act of intelligence gathering seems illegitimate when applied to the crime of terrorism.
~ Raymond Kelly
Crime, family dissolution, welfare, and low levels of social organization are fundamentally a consequence of the disappearance of work.
~ William Julius Wilson
Cops and robbers resemble each other, so there's not a lot to learn in terms of learning the logistics of committing the crime or investigating the crime.
~ Andre Braugher
There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.
~ William Hazlitt
Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.
~ John Morley
No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been.
~ Hannah Arendt
In the deregulated realm of US banking and finance, crime does occasionally pay for its foul deeds, not in prison time but by making modest rebates to the victims.
~ William Greider
No crime is so great as daring to excel.
~ Winston Churchill
Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.
~ Honoré De Balzac
I make movies for teenage boys. Oh dear, what a crime.
~ Michael Bay
One of the things that Dostoevsky talks about is that no character is too high to fall and no character is too low to be redeemed. 'Crime and Punishment' began with a person going out and consciously becoming a cold-blooded murderer, and it took 800 pages and an epilogue before the person finally asked for forgiveness.
~ Jeffrey Bell
Perhaps our imagination needs crime stories to fulfill some craving we have, as a way to assuage a darkness in ourselves.
~ James Nesbitt
Crime does not pay as well as politics.
~ Alfred Newman
Technology breeds crime and we are constantly trying to develop technology to stay one step ahead of the person trying to use it negatively.
~ Frank Abagnale
One way to make sure crime doesn't pay would be to let the government run it.
~ Ronald Reagan
The whole duty of government is to prevent crime and to preserve contracts.
~ Lord Melbourne
I think it's too bad that everybody's decided to turn on drugs, I don't think drugs are the problem. Crime is the problem. Cops are the problem. Money's the problem. But drugs are just drugs.
~ Jerry Garcia
Abortion isn't a lesser evil, it's a crime. Taking one life to save another, that's what the Mafia does. It's a crime. It's an absolute evil.
~ Pope Francis
Anyone who regards poetry as an entertainment, as a 'read,' commits an anthropological crime, in the first place against himself.
~ Joseph Brodsky
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.
~ Emmeline Pankhurst
The difference between political terror and ordinary crime becomes clear during the change of regimes, in which former terrorists become well-regarded representatives of their country.
~ Jürgen Habermas
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 which elude us.
~ Georges Bataille
Crime is the price society pays for abandoning character.
~ James Q. Wilson
There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.
~ Simone Weil
Crimes against children are the most heinous crime. That, for me, would be a reason for capital punishment because children are innocent and need the guidance of an adult society.
~ Clint Eastwood
Any society where it's a crime or a hassle to be different is a society based on psychological fascism.
~ David Icke
The judge said I was a menace to society because I had put crime on a scientific basis.
~ Gregory Corso
Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.
~ Will Rogers
Crime and legal stories, broadly speaking, are just where my interest happens to lie.
~ William Landay
