Crime Quotes - Page 23

• Beheading, burying and burning humans alive are extreme acts of cruelty. Such crimes against humanity must be investigated and the guilty parties brought to justice. May ALL victims rest in peace!

  Widad Akrawi

  Rest In Peace, Party, Justice

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• In the name of a greater civilization, we curse those who for the sake of their ambitious dreams, brought about the massacre of so many young lives. No matter how brutal the crime, you will always get glorification of its heroism and tradition from the eunuchs of bourgeois culture.

  Amadeo Bordiga

  Dream, Civilization, Names

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• Writing about race and crime was not new territory for me. But it can be treacherous. So here are my rules: No stereotypes. No generalizations. No explanations. No apologies. Just the facts, ma'am.

  Colin Flaherty

  Writing, Apology, Race

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• Not everybody is strong enough to endure life without an anesthetic. Drink probably averts more gross crime than it causes.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Strong, Causes, Drink

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• A woman questions the man who loves exactly as a judge questions a criminal. This being so, a flash of the eye, a mere word, an inflection of the voice or a moment's hesitation suffice to expose the fact, betrayal or crime he is attempting to conceal.

  Honore de Balzac

  Betrayal, Eye, Men

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• President Obama has reduced the sentences of 22 federal prisoners who were arrested for drug-related crimes - eight of whom were serving life sentences. It marks the first time someone has said 'Thanks Obama' but actually meant it.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Eight, Drug, President

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• One gets a cross for his crime, the other a crown.

  Juvenal

  Crowns, Crosses

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• If crime and disease are to be regarded as the same thing, it follows that any state of mind which our masters choose to call 'disease' can be treated as a crime and compulsorily cured.

  C. S. Lewis

  Mind, Disease, States

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “God in the Dock”, p.325, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• The conventional wisdom is often wrong. Crime didn't keep soaring in the 1990s, money alone doesn't win elections, and - surprise - drinking eight glasses of water a day has never actually been shown to do a thing for your health. Conventional wisdom is often shoddily formed and devilishly difficult to see through, but it can be done.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Pain, Drinking, Winning

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• Today the crime novelist has one advantage denied to writers of 'straight' or 'literary' novels. Unlike them he can range over all levels of society, for crime can easily breach the barriers that exist in our stratified society. Because of these barriers the modern literary novel, unlike its 19th-century predecessors, is often confined to the horizontal, dealing only with one class. But crime runs through society from top to bottom, and so the crime novelist can present a fuller picture of the way we live now.

  Allan Massie

  Running, Book, Class

  Allan Massie (2013). “Life & Letters: The Spectator Columns”, Quartet Books (UK)

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• The crimes of extreme civilization are certainly more atrocious than those of extreme barbarism.

  Jules Amedee Barbey d'Aurevilly

  Art, Philosophy, Civilization

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• We ought to be very cautious and circumspect in the prosecution of magic and heresy. The attempt to put down these two crimes may be extremely perilous to liberty.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Wisdom, Two, Magic

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• We are not supposed to go out and kill all those we suspect to have committed a crime.

  Bianca Jagger

  Committed, Suspects

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• I finally figured out what my crime was. I lived. Big mistake.

  Patty Hearst

  Mistake, Bigs, Big Mistake

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• It has been asserted, that a moral Atheist would be a monster beyond the power of nature to create: I reply, that it is not more strange for an Atheist to live virtuously, than for a Christian to abandon himself to crime! If we believe the last kind of monster, why dispute the existence of the first?

  Pierre Bayle

  Christian, Atheist, Believe

  Pierre Bayle (1826). “An Historical and Critical Dictionary”, p.169

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• Atheists are often charged with blasphemy, but it is a crime they cannot commit... When the Atheist examines, denounces, or satirises the gods, he is not dealing with persons but with ideas. He is incapable of insulting God, for he does not admit the existence of any such being... We attack not a person but a belief, not a binge but an idea, not a fact but a fancy.

  George William Foote

  Atheist, Ideas, Insulting

  "Who Are the Blasphemers? (June 1882)". "Flowers of Freethought". Book by George William Foote, p. 112, www.ftarchives.net. 1893.

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• All kinds of frankness and honesty are terrible crimes in the eyes of society.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Honesty, Eye, Atheism

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• As I have already said, the belief that one's own view of reality is the only reality is the most dangerous or all delusions. It becomes still more dangerous if it is coupled with the missionary zeal to enlighten the rest of the world, whether the rest of the world wishes to be enlightened or not. To refuse to embrace wholeheartedly a particular definition of reality, to dare to see the world differently can become a "think crime" in a truly Orwellian sense as we get steadily closer to 1984.

  Paul Watzlawick

  Reality, Thinking, Views

  Paul Watzlawick (1977). “How real is real?: Confusion, disinformation, communication”, Vintage

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• There is something about big cities that turns me on, and for whatever mysterious reason, places like New York and Paris inspire me. I think it's because cities represent civilization, and as crime-ridden and broken down as some of them are, it's still better than skipping through a meadow.

  Woody Allen

  New York, Thinking, Civilization

  "Woody Allen by Moonlight". Interview with Uzoamaka Maduka, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 16, 2011.

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• The coverage [of crimes] is different. It's less angry when white [athletes] are involved, less accusatory, less judgemental. I see that in the pieces that are written and reported. At times it bothers me to the point that I just stop reading...just stop.

  Michael Wilbon

  Reading, Athlete, White

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I moved to New York and was told, "Go back home. We don't need you. Go pump gas. You're from Vermont. We've got no use for you. You're not drawing guys in tights." So, I learned how to draw guys in tights, and I put them in as many crime situations as I could.

  Frank Miller

  New York, Home, Drawing

  Source: collider.com

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• Prosecutors tend to love conspiracy charges because the rules of evidence are easier, meaning you can get more in to help prove a crime.

  David Shuster

  Helping, Conspiracy, Easier

  "Hardball" with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. October 18, 2005.

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• In crime fiction, I just don't write the parts that aren't a thriller and it's exactly the same in my TV reporting - I distill the essence of the story until it's only the jewels of the tale - and leave in only the most compelling and exciting parts.

  Hank Phillippi Ryan

  Writing, Essence, Jewels

  "Interview: Hank Phillippi Ryan, 'The Other Woman'". Interview with Pamela Clare, happyeverafter.usatoday.com. October 4, 2012.

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• A state is absolute in the sense which I have in mind when it claims the right to a monopoly of all the force within the community, to make war, to make peace, to conscript life, to tax, to establish and disestablish property, to define crime, to punish disobedience, to control education, to supervise the family, to regulate personal habits, and to censor opinions. The modern state claims all of these powers, and, in the matter of theory, there is no real difference in the size of the claim between communists, fascists, and Democrats.

  Walter Lippmann

  Real, War, Differences

  Walter Lippmann (1960). “A Preface To Morals”, p.80, Transaction Publishers

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• Show me the man and I’ll find you the crime.

  Lavrentiy Beria

  Men, He Man, Show Me

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