Roger Ebert Quotes About Crime

Quotes about: Crime

• To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts.

  Roger Ebert

  Unhappy, Crime

  Roger Ebert (2011). “Life Itself: A Memoir”, p.291, Hachette UK

• To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts. We must try to contribute joy to the world. That is true no matter what our problems, our health, our circumstances. We must try. I didn't always know this and am happy I lived long enough to find it out.

  Roger Ebert

  Long, Joy, Mind

  "Life Itself : A Memoir". Book by Roger Ebert, 2011.

• We are put on this planet only once, and to limit ourselves to the familiar is a crime against our minds.

  Roger Ebert

  Wisdom, Mind, Limits

  Roger Ebert (2005). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2006”, p.339, Andrews McMeel Publishing

• Most people choose movies that provide exactly what they expect, and tell them things they already know. Others are more curious. We are put on this planet only once, and to limit ourselves to the familiar is a crime against our minds.

  Roger Ebert

  People, Mind, Limits

  Roger Ebert (2005). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2006”, p.339, Andrews McMeel Publishing

• One difference between film noir and more straightforward crime pictures is that noir is more open to human flaws and likes to embed them in twisty plot lines.

  Roger Ebert

  Plot Lines, Differences, Noir

  Roger Ebert's review of "The Samaritan", www.rogerebert.com. May 16, 2012.

• The ability of so many people to live comfortably with the idea of capital punishment is perhaps a clue to how so many Europeans were able to live with the idea of the Holocaust: Once you accept the notion that the state has the right to kill someone and the right to define what is a capital crime, aren't you halfway there?

  Roger Ebert

  Halfway There, Punishment, Ideas

  Roger Ebert (2009). “Roger Ebert's Four Star Reviews--1967-2007”, p.516, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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