Crime Quotes - Page 31

• With the crime novels, its delightful to have protagonists I can revisit in book after book. Its like having a fictitious family.

  John Banville

  Book, Crime Novels, Protagonists

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• We know that when law-abiding citizens who know how to utilize a firearm have one on their person, it helps prevent crime.

  Paul Broun

  Law, Abiding, Citizens

  "Rep. Paul Broun: Georgia's Open Gun Law Will Prevent Shootings" by Courtney Coren, www.newsmax.com. July 1, 2014.

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• We commit our crimes at night and reveal ourselves in the high noon of studio lights.

  Don DeLillo

  Night, Light, Noon

  Don DeLillo (2011). “Valparaiso”, p.68, Pan Macmillan

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• There is nothing - no program, no hobby, no vice, no crime - that does not 'create jobs'. Tsunamis, computer viruses and shooting convenience store clerks all 'create jobs'. So that claim misses the plot; it applies to all so is an argument in favor of none. Instead of an argument on the merits, it is an admission that one has no such arguments.

  Chris Horner

  Jobs, Missing, Clerks

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• Most of the kids that I meet in the street are serious hardened criminals that I meet in the street, never had a mother and a father to love them, to protect them, to teach them right from wrong and lead them out of crime and gangs and stuff like that.

  Steven Seagal

  Mother, Father, Kids

  "'Lawman' Star Steven Seagal on 'Hannity'". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. December 07, 2009.

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• It is necessary to reaffirm our solid opposition to any direct offense against life, especially when innocent and defenseless, and the unborn child in its mother's womb is the quintessence of innocence. Let us remember the words of Vatican Council II: 'Therefore from the moment of its conception life must be guarded with the greatest care while abortion and infanticide are unspeakable crimes.'

  Pope Francis

  Mother, Children, Abortion

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• For those of us who have been thrown into hell, mysterious melodies and the torturing images of a vanished beauty will always bring us, in the midst of crime and folly, the echo of that harmonious insurrection which bears witness, throughout the centuries, to the greatness of humanity.

  Albert Camus

  Greatness, Echoes, Humanity

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.276, Vintage

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• When the throne of God is overturned, the rebel realizes that it is now his own responsibility to create the justice, order, and unity that he sought in vain within his own condition, and in this way to justify the fall of God. Then begins the desperate effort to create, at the price of crime and murder if necessary, the dominion of man.

  Albert Camus

  Fall, Responsibility, Men

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.25, Vintage

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• Americans need rest, but do not know it. I believe this to be a large part of the explanation of the crime wave in the United States.

  Bertrand Russell

  Believe, United States, Needs

  Bertrand Russell (2004). “Sceptical Essays”, p.146, Psychology Press

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• You'll see more violence in any television crime series than you will in my films Art is there to have a stimulating effect, if it earns its name. You have to be honest, that's the only thing.

  Michael Haneke

  Art, Names, Violence

  "Michael Haneke: 'There is as much evil in us as there is good'". Interview With Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. October 24, 2009.

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• Reading is the subtle and thorough sharing of the ideas and feelings by underhanded means. It is a gross invasion of Privacy and a direct violation of the Constitutions of the Third, Fourth, and Fifth Age. The Teaching of Reading is equally a crime against Privacy and Personhood. One to five years on each count.

  Walter Tevis

  Teaching, Reading, Mean

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• In a mystery, the sleuth must be believably involved and emotionally invested in solving the crime.

  Diane Mott Davidson

  Mystery, Involved

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• After I outlined 'Catering to Nobody,' I went and worked for a caterer. And the other thing I had to do was to talk to the Jefferson County Sheriff's Department about how they investigated a crime.

  Diane Mott Davidson

  Sheriffs, Catering, County

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• America don't have no future! America's going to be destroyed! Allah's going to divinely chastise America! Violence, crimes, earthquakes - there's gonna be all kinds of trouble. America's going to pay for all its lynchings and killings of slaves and what it's done to black people.

  Muhammad Ali

  Lynching, Earthquakes, America

  "This is the Legend of Muhammad Ali, the Greatest Fighter That Ever Will Be". Interview, www.playboy.com. June 3, 2016.

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• Stealing has always been a way of redistributing wealth.

  John Conyers

  Punishment, Way, Wealth

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• The police can't use clubs or gas or dogs. I suppose they will have to use poison ivy.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Dog, Punishment, Ivy

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• The criminal left belongs not in a dormitory, but in a penitentiary.

  Spiro T. Agnew

  Punishment, Criminals, Dormitory

  Spiro T. Agnew (1970). “The real Spiro Agnew: commonsense quotations of a household word”, Pelican Publishing Company

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• The crime should be punished no matter whether poverty or wealth caused it to occur, because the crime is wrong.

  Ernest Van den Haag

  Punishment, Matter, Poverty

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• Capital punishment has probably been responsible for a good deal of human progress. The overwhelming majority of those executed were of the sort whose departures for bliss eternal improved the average intelligence and decency of the race.

  H. L. Mencken

  Race, Average, Punishment

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• The late William Jennings Bryan, L.L.D., always had one great advantage in controversy; he was never burdened with an understanding of his opponent's case.

  H. L. Mencken

  Punishment, Understanding, Opponents

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• The crime part is the engine that moves the narrative and allows me to write the other things I want to write about.

  George Pelecanos

  Moving, Writing, Want

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• I'm proud to be a crime novelist. What I've chosen is the best way to convey the questions I'm trying to raise.

  George Pelecanos

  Trying, Novelists, Proud

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• Any time you have poverty, joblessness, sub-par public schools, and a lack of opportunity, you're going to have a high rate of crime.

  George Pelecanos

  School, Opportunity, Poverty

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. September 19, 2001.

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• Things seem to be at a boiling point all the time. In fact, it has been that way my whole life. I find it interesting, and I like the fact that the emotions are in your face all the time. You always know where you stand. None of that "we don't have any racial problems here" attitude that you get, say, up north. All of this is rich fodder for a crime novelist.

  George Pelecanos

  Attitude, Up North, Interesting

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. September 19, 2001.

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• The most popular American fiction seems to be about successful people who win, and good crime fiction typically does not explore that world. But honestly, if all crime fiction was quality fiction, it would be taken more seriously.

  George Pelecanos

  Taken, Successful, Winning

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. September 19, 2001.

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