Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination. [Lat. , Factis ignoscite nostris Si scelus ingenio scitis abesse meo. ]
The rhetoric is pretending, constantly pretending that I have been charged with a crime, and never mentioning that I have been already previously cleared, never mentioning that the woman herself says that the police made it up.
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
Pornography is supposed to arouse sexual desires. If pornography is a crime, when will they arrest makers of perfume?
No crime is vulgar, but all vulgarity is crime.
I always felt that rap didn't cause crime; it just reflected it.
The people who died in the Twin Towers in that terrible crime mattered. The people who were bombed to death in dusty villages in Afghanistan didn't matter, even though it now seems that their numbers were greater. The people who will die in Iraq don't matter.
He who commends the brutalities of the past, sows the seeds of future crimes.
I am a master of fiction. I am also the greatest crime novelist who ever lived. I am to the crime novel in specific what Tolstoy is to the Russian novel and what Beethoven is to music.
Crime is for poor people. You don't need to rob the bank if you own it.
Japan has a low crime rate, unless you count the fact that approximately every fifteen minutes the entire Cabinet gets indicted for taking bribes.
We must regard Sarah Palin as the Carmella Soprano of the GOP -- an enabling wife of organized crime, who sees, hears and speaks no evil of the boys in her old-boy network for whom she does this ideological lap dance.
He that voluntarily continues in ignorance, is guilty of all the crimes which ignorance produces.
The Auschwitz praxis was based on a new principle: for one portion of mankind, existence itself is a crime, punishable by humiliation, torture, and death. And the new world produced by this praxis included two kinds of inhabitants, those who were given the "punishment" and those who administered it.
Penalties serve to deter those who are not inclined to commit any crimes.
Crime is the price society pays for abandoning character.
Commit all your crimes when Sachin is batting. They will go unnoticed because even the Lord is watching.
The mechanism that directs government cannot be virtuous, because it is impossible to thwart every crime, to protect oneself from every criminal without being criminal too; that which directs corrupt mankind must be corrupt itself; and it will never be by means of virtue, virtue being inert and passive, that you will maintain control over vice, which is ever active: the governor must be more energetic than the governed.
We can play politics, or we can reduce crime.
Because you're a crime writer you're asked to have a point of view on a lot of things, and I'm uncomfortable having public opinions on things that are not my professional area.