Dominique Strauss-Kahn has always had a reputation as a man who cares for women, and even a libertine. . . There is a vast difference between [that] reputation. . . and the charge which he is the object, which is a serious, very serious crime or sex crime. This is something very different.
Change often makes accepted customs into crimes.
Armed and law-abiding citizens are a greater deterrent to violent crime than 1,000 laws passed by Congress.
The only crime equaling inhumanity is the crime of indifference, silence, and forgetting.
The Holocaust was the most evil crime ever committed.
Remorse is the punishment of crime; repentance, its expiation. The former appertains to a tormented conscience; the latter to a soul changed for the better.
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.
Crime is a job. Sex is a job. Growing up is a job. School is a job. Going to parties is a job. Religion is a job. Being creative is a job
Anybody who doesn't know that politics is crime has got a few screws loose.
Rules are for children. This is war, and in war the only crime is to lose.
Riches, perhaps, do not so often produce crimes as incite accusers.
The crime of a mother is a heavy burden.
Now, Hillary's [Clinton] more than that, she's an actual - she could be a crime boss.
Great fiction has been written out of the very darkest circumstances of our narco violence, and nothing written in either fiction or nonfiction has penetrated that darkness so memorably - you can even say beautifully, a relentless riveting forensic dark beauty that some readers in fact find themselves unable to endure - as Roberto Bolaño's 2666. Especially in "The Part about the Crimes. " But here's the thing: nobody would call 2666 a "narco novel. "
I do not support child abuse. It's a disgusting crime of which I am a victim.
The book that convinced me I wanted to be a writer was 'Crime and Punishment'. I put the thing down after reading it in a fever over two or three days. . . I said, 'If this is what a book can be, then that is what I want to do. '
The prisoner is not the one who has commited a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over.
The worst terrorist crimes going on right now are the drone campaigns.
The [abortion] excommunication affects all those who commit this crime with knowledge of the penalty attached, and thus includes those accomplices without which the crime would not have been committed.
It has long been a source of wonder to me why the leading criminological writers--men like Edmund Lester Pearson, H. B. Irving, Filson Young, Canon Brookes, William Bolitho, and Harold Eaton--have not devoted more space to the Greene tragedy; for here, surely, is one of the outstanding murder mysteries of modern times--a case practically unique in the annals of latter-day crime.