For passion, like crime does not sit well with the sure order and even course of everyday life. It welcomes every loosening of the social fabric, every confusion and affliction visited upon the world, for passion sees in such a disorder a vague hope of finding advantage for itself.
Thomas MannCriminals should be punished, not fed pastries.
Lemony SnicketPoverty is the parent of revolution and crime.
AristotleTags: society revolution poverty crime
Downtown, a dress for Meg- I do it every time I kill a man.
James EllroyTags: crime noir white-jazz
Criminal: a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.
Howard ScottTags: capitalism crime
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.
William BalsamoActual life was chaos, but there was something terribly logical in the imagination. It was the imagination that set remorse to dog the feet of sin. It was the imagination that made each crime bear its misshapen brood. In the common world of fact the wicked were not punished, nor the good rewarded. Success was given to the strong, failure thrust upon the weak. That was all.
Oscar WildeTags: imagination crime
The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic.
G.K. ChestertonTags: art creativity critic criticism mystery crime detectives
The larger crimes are apt to be the simpler, for the bigger the crime, the more obvious, as a rule, is the motive.
Arthur Conan DoyleA criminal remains a criminal whether he uses a convict's suit or a monarch's crown.
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