Miss Howard: Like a good detective story myself. Lots of nonsense written, though. Criminal discovered in last Chapter. Everyone dumbfounded. Real crime - you'd know at once.

Agatha Christie

Tags: crime



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The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter.

Dashiell Hammett

Tags: crime crooks patter



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In my world, people are always plotting. You
have no idea of all the crimes people in business commit every
day. Like it was nothing. Or there’s a set of special rules for them.
Remember when Bush made that whole speech about ‘corporate
ethics’ last year? What a fraud. You think stuff like Enron or
WorldCom is an aberration? It’s only the tip. Business is a religion.
Probably the only one practiced all over the world.

Andrew Vachss

Tags: crime business corporate-greed andrew-vachss enron worldcom



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I am the scourge of God

Peter Ackroyd

Tags: insanity crime obsession



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Turns out the problem is the picture. The problem isn't the 16,000 murders each year [...]. That's not the problem. The photo is the thing.

Teodoro Petkoff

Tags: crime venezuela photos caracas crime-in-venezuela el-nacional homocide law-enforcement-in-venezuela tal-cual



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Most investigators don't even know what the word means. You stop the cops from using informants and the only crimes they'd ever solve would be those by deranged postal workers who come to work once too often.

Andrew Vachss

Tags: humor crime private-detective



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Man is born violent but is kept in check by the people around him. If he nevertheless manages to throw off his fetters, he can count on applause, for everyone recognizes himself in him. Deeply ingrained, nay, buried dreams come true. The unlimited radiates its magic even upon crime, which, not coincidentally, is the main source of entertainment in Eumeswil. I, as an anarch, not uninterested but disinterested, can understand that. Freedom has a wide range and more facets than a diamond.

Ernst Jünger

Tags: freedom violence crime ernst-jünger anarch



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When you've been falsely accused of serious crimes as often I have, you learn to recognize the oncoming inevitability of the next one.

David A. McIntee

Tags: crime accusations falsely-accused



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Stealing to eat ain’t criminal—stealing to be rich is.

Andrew Vachss

Tags: greed crime



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In my opinion, if, as the result of certain combinations, Kepler's or Newton's discoveries could become known to people in no other way than by sacrificing the lives of one, or ten, or a hundred or more people who were hindering the discovery, or standing as an obstacle in its path, then Newton would have the right, and it would even be his duty... to remove those ten or a hundred people, in order to make his discoveries known to mankind. It by no means follows from this, incidentally, that Newton should have the right to kill anyone he pleases, whomever happens along, or to steal from the market every day. Further, I recall developing in my article the idea that all... well, let's say, the lawgivers and founders of mankind, starting from the most ancient and going on to the Lycurguses, the Solons, the Muhammads, the Napoleons, and so forth, that all of them to a man were criminals, from the fact alone that in giving a new law, they thereby violated the old one, held sacred by society and passed down from their fathers, and they certainly did not stop at shedding blood either, if it happened that blood (sometimes quite innocent and shed valiantly for the ancient law) could help them.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Tags: greatness genius crime utilitarianism the-ends-justify-the-means



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