Crime quotes

Explore the depths of human nature and the consequences it bears in our Crime category. A collection of insightful quotes that shed light on the dark side of society.

You know, joining each other at crime scenes, bantering over dead bodies. And where does that leave you, right?

- Ella Lopez

You people misunderstand me. You call me Satan and Devil but… do you know my crime? I loved God too much. And for that he betrayed me — punished me.

- Lucifer Morningstar

The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making any excuses, that's the day you start to the top.

- O. J. Simpson

My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.

- Vladimir Nabokov

Today it is becoming harder to speak out, with the inception of the Patriot Act, the president has legislated free speech to be a crime.

- Frank Serpico

A person is born with feelings of envy and hate. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to violence and crime, and any sense of loyalty and good faith will be abandoned.

- Xun Zi

To let politics become a cesspool, and then avoid it because it is a cesspool, is a double crime.

- Howard Crosby

From 30 feet away she looked like a lot of class. From 10 feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from 30 feet away.

- Raymond Chandler

When I wrote The Onion Field, I realized that my first two novels were just practice.

- Joseph Wambaugh

I'm opposed to censorship of any kind, especially by government. But it's plain common sense that producers should target their product with some kind of sensitivity.

- Lee Child

Consideration of any kind are a crime against the German people and the soldier at the front.

- Wilhelm Keitel

Murder is not the crime of criminals, but that of law-abiding citizens.

- Emmanuel Teney

I think at this stage in my life I have learned that there are any number of things that men will never know, and can never hope to know, about women.

- Robert B. Parker

In the 1990s, we introduced Boston's community policing strategy. We reversed the tide of violent crime that threatened our city, and we established a national model for preventing and fighting crime.

- Thomas Menino

The crime novel has always been my favourite genre.

- Sara Paretsky

The easy answer is that writing novels is a lot more fun than practicing law.

- Jeffery Deaver

The Holocaust was the most evil crime ever committed.

- Stephen Ambrose

For instance, why are we terrorizing this country, leading with murder and mayhem, when crime is actually on the decline, as somebody, as somebody mentioned?

- Christiane Amanpour

When you work alone, you need to socialize at some level.

- Jeffery Deaver

Telling the community a serial killer is out there stirs up a lot of unpleasant attention.

- Pat Brown