A crime is born in the gap between the morality of society and that of the individual.

An anarchist is someone who rejects the curious notion that crimes become virtues as they grow in size.

We adapt to our sorrows, I suppose, as unpleasant as they might be. One cannot weep forever. One simply runs dry of tears.

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

Because of course, for every revelation of weakness, there had to be an equal and opposite show of strength.

Time is going really faster than you think. That second just passed now, get up, pack the bag, get lost…

There is no mystery to happiness. Unhappy men are all alike. Some wound they suffered long ago, some wish denied, some blow to pride, some kindling spark of love put out by scorn — or...

It is one thing to look at a mistreated boat and another to look at a tomb. The silence of the bay seemed more intense. And I could see the glint of the carrion flies.

Fantômas! The sound of that name evoked the worst horrors! Fantômas! This terrorist, this über-criminal who has never shrunk from any cruelty, any horror – Fantômas is evil personified! Fantômas! He stops at nothing!

Stress is the reason for crime and all other kinds of frustration. To relieve it will eliminate everything else.

Today, acknowledgement of the prevalence and harms of child sexual abuse is counterbalanced with cautionary tales about children and women who, under pressure from social workers and therapists, produce false allegations of ‘paedophile rings’, ‘cult...

Constance: Tell me, what happened to William’s little maid? I never saw her again after that dinner.Mary Maceachran: Elsie? — She’s gone.Constance: Oh, it’s a pity, really. I thought it was a good idea to...

When the guy with asthma finally came in from the fire escape, Parker rabbit-punched him and took his gun away.

You just hang in there, boy, hang in with that apprenticeship of yours, do you hear me? You are lucky they would even take someone like you. You’re a child of the slums. A ragtag....

Even sentenced to twenty-five years in prison Ted didn’t get what he deserved. Maybe his prison mates would give it to him.

The American craving for illegal, mind-altering, addictive chemicals provides a steady flow of American capital through the Texas border into Mexico and South America. Basically, the drug traffic is uncontainable as long as its U.S....

It’s goddamned funny in this police racket how an old woman can look out of a window and see a guy running and pick him out of a line-up six months later, but we can...

The source of every crime, is some defect of the understanding; or some error in reasoning; or some sudden force of the passions. Defect in the understanding is ignorance; in reasoning, erroneous opinion.

If you are a good hacker everybody knows you, But if you are a great hacker nobody knows you.

We are not supposed to go out and kill all those we suspect to have committed a crime.

I am not their f*****g entertainment. And I am not a f*****g hero! Given the choice, a hero would do exactly the same again. I wouldn’t. Okay?

I’m just an apprentice, stuck between these borrowed first and last breaths that I was given, drinking water of life, and chasing the fire of knowledge, and waiting to mingle with my eternal and faithful...

There is no right to punish. There is only the power to punish,’ she wrote. ‘A man is punished for his crime because the State is stronger than he; the great crime of War is...

What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is the last resort of political half-wits.

Saltei da quinta nuvem para o primeiro plano planejando revirarrevoltas e crimes contra os costumes.

I can so clearly distinguish between the criminal and his crime; I can so sincerely forgive the first while I abhor the last.

It was wrong. It was like arresting the gun for murder.

In Woolrich’s crime fiction there is a gradual development from pulp to noir. The earlier a story, the more likely it stresses pulp elements: one-dimensional macho protagonists, preposterous methods of murder, hordes of cardboard gangsters,...

Escute mais isso. Por outro lado, forças jovens, frescas, sucumbem em vão por falta de apoio, e isso aos milhares, e isso em toda parte! Cem, mil boas ações e iniciativas que poderiam ser implementadas...

I’m here to tell niggas it ain’t all swell.There’s Heaven then there’s Hell niggasOne day your cruisin’ in your seven,Next day your sweatin’, forgettin’ your lies,Alibis ain’t matchin’ up, bullshit catchin’ upHit with the RICO,...

He had a toughness about him, and his five grand Savile Row suit did little to hide the fact that he worked out regularly. He looked like someone who could’ve gone either way, the mob...

Ich hörte, dass Karl May der Öffentlichkeit so lange als guter Schriftsteller galt, bis irgendwelche Missetaten aus seiner Jugend bekannt wurden. Angenommen aber, er hat sie begangen, so beweist mir das nichts gegen ihn –...

Do you want to risk it?

If you control the code, you control the world. This is the future that awaits us.

As governor, there isn’t a lot I can do beyond that to crack down on crime. Law enforcement is really a local issue. It’s the cops’ job to tighten down on criminals.

The needs of a society determine its ethics, and in the Black American ghettos the hero is that man who is offered only the crumbs from his country’s table but by ingenuity and courage is...

Crime against the individual is the equivalent of crime against humanity.

This monograph by Special Agent Ken Lanning (1992) is merely a guide for those who may investigate this phenomenon, as the title indicates, and not a study. The author is a well known skeptic regarding...

I looked at her, with her hair spilled out on the pillows and the warmth of her body warming mine. And I thought, god-dang, if this ain’t a heck of a way to be in...

You cannot have a society of angels except in heaven

I want to kill this degenerate bastard brother of yours. But I am not selfish, I do not want to deprive you of that honor.

I obeyed, but my crime was that I did not look obedient.

. . . In all parts of our globe, fanatics have cut each other’s throats, publicly burnt each other, committed without a scruple and even as a duty, the greatest crimes, and shed torrents of...

Google maps are one thing but there’s no substitute for pounding the beat and I spent quite a bit of time figuring out how to break into the back of the houses on Belgrave Place....

C.J. had once believed that he understood who he was, what he was about, what he was capable of. But when the moment came to act upon these convictions, he discovered that his knowledge of...

How strange,” continued the king, with some asperity; “the police think that they have disposed of the whole matter when they say, ‘A murder has been committed,’ and especially so when they can add, ‘And...

Holmes took up the stone and held it against the light. “It’s a bonny thing,” said he. “Just see how it glints and sparkles. Of course it is a nucleus and focus of crime. Every...

You ever get the feeling all hell’s about to break loose and there’s nothing you can do about it?

You settle for less, you get less.

– Naprawdę mam panu opowiadać o historii cygańskiej społeczności w Krotowicach? O tym, że komuniści najpierw zabrali nam nasze tabory, potem niemal siłą zaciągnęli do pracy w fabrykach, a po 1989 roku, kiedy te fabryki padały, to Cyganie byli pierwsi do...