The newspapers of the twenty-first century will give a mere ‚stick‘ in the back pages to accounts of crime or political controversies, but will headline on the front pages the proclamation of a new scientific hypothesis.

Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent.

One way to make sure crime doesn’t pay would be to let the government run it.

To be famous, in fact, one has only to kill one’s landlady.

He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.

Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

If you want to deal with an epidemic – crime or health – the smartest and most effective and cheapest way to deal with it is prevention first.

I love crime, I love mysteries, and I love ghosts.

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

He has committed the crime who profits by it.

The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.

There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.

Every day or two, I strolled to the village to hear some of the gossip which is incessantly going on there, circulating either from mouth to mouth, or from newspaper to newspaper, and which, taken in homeopathic doses, was really as refreshing in its way as the rustle of leaves and the peeping of frogs.

It’s amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper.

It takes two to make a murder. There are born victims, born to have their throats cut, as the cut-throats are born to be hanged.

The biggest crime in England is to rise above your station. It’s fine to be a pop star. ‚Oh, it’s great, lots of fun, aren’t they sweet, these pop stars! But to think you have anything to say about how the world should work? What arrogance!‘

We don’t seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business?

The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.

I don’t really read a lot of newspapers. I don’t pay attention to what is being said or written about me. I’ve had lots of experiences in the past when I got too much into it. That sort of diverts your focus.

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.

Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.

I read in the newspapers they are going to have 30 minutes of intellectual stuff on television every Monday from 7:30 to 8. to educate America. They couldn’t educate America if they started at 6:30.

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

America is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men.

I was the one who took football off the back pages and put it on to page one.

I think the FBI is the premier law enforcement agency in all of human history.

The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.

The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly.

It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.

Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

‚Eastern Promises‘ is great.

My head’s never really quiet. The only time I can get it to turn off is if I watch ‚CSI‘ or ‚Law & Order,‘ where I have to follow the crime. If I can’t turn my head off during that, I know I’ve really got a problem.

Abortion isn’t a lesser evil, it’s a crime. Taking one life to save another, that’s what the Mafia does. It’s a crime. It’s an absolute evil.

Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect.

If anything, I get most upset because I wanna read a good paper first thing in the morning. And if I see a lie about myself flash across the front of the cover, I don’t think much of the rest of the newspaper.

All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that’s an alibi for my ignorance.

Poverty is the mother of crime.

It is a fundamental principle of criminal law that an imputed offense must correspond exactly to the type of crime described by law. If no law applies exactly to the point in question, then there is no offense.

I strongly believe that for serious and violent criminals, we must absolutely hold them accountable for their crimes and send them to prison.

The great thieves lead away the little thief.

You can never get all the facts from just one newspaper, and unless you have all the facts, you cannot make proper judgements about what is going on.

The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.

In a closed society where everybody’s guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.

One crime has to be concealed by another.

Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.

I might talk about killing people, but that doesn’t mean I do it.

How accurately can the law fix the crime? There has to be a mechanism for very fast action. The law is like this: catch them and punish them.

I’ve always been fascinated with the stealing of innocence. It’s the most heinous crime, and certainly a capital crime if there ever was one.

Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.

Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.

Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.

Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.

Those newspapers of the nation which most loudly cried dictatorship against me would have been the first to justify the beginnings of dictatorship by somebody else.

As a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, I’m concerned about the recklessness of public policy that endangers people’s lives, especially in minority communities, where crime often is such a scourge.

Everybody will make mistakes, and for some that mistake will rise to the level of being a crime.

The worst crime is faking it.

In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.

I read about eight newspapers in a day. When I’m in a town with only one newspaper, I read it eight times.