#crime

We are all the foolishness and all the crimes we did. We're also all the kindnesses we did. I hate to think of life as if we understood time. We don't understand time. ↗

— Hugh Leonard

#crimes #did #foolishness #hate #i

I read a lot of thrillers, especially American crime novels. ↗

— Kate Mosse

#crime #especially #i #lot #novels

False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing. ↗

— Joseph de Maistre

#crime #doing #false #first #first of all

We must be vigilant in our actions towards criminals, and innovative in our approach towards solving crime. ↗

— Thomas Menino

#approach #crime #criminals #innovative #must

My argument is not that I shouldn't have been punished, but that the punishment didn't fit the crime. ↗

— Kevin Mitnick

#been #crime #fit #i #punished

What shocks me is that so many people leave care and become homeless, and when you're homeless you get into crime, prostitution and drugs, and it is a vicious circle. That's what we need to change. ↗

— Samantha Morton

#care #change #circle #crime #get

Crime is an overhead you have to pay if you want to live in the city. ↗

— George Moscone

#crime #live #overhead #pay #want

I sincerely believe that if Bush and Cheney recognized the full humanity of other people's mothers around the world, they wouldn't commit the crimes they commit. ↗

— Wallace Shawn

#believe #bush #cheney #commit #crimes

Stay home and the crooks win. They get the night, by default and concession, the night which should rightly belong to all of us. ↗

— Claire Cross

#night #night-life #home

It was Carrot who'd suggested to the Patrician that hardened criminals should be given the chance to 'serve the community' by redecorating the homes of the elderly, lending a new terror to old age and, given Ankh-Morpork's crime rate, leading to at least one old lady having her front room wallpapered so many times in six months that now she could only get in sideways. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#crime #age