#crime

All novels are about crime. You'd be hard pressed to find any novel that does not have an element of crime. I don't see myself as a crime novelist, but there are crimes in my books. That's the nature of storytelling, if you want to reflect the real world. ↗

— Carl Hiaasen

#any #books #crime #crimes #does

In fact, if you have a crime committed against you, and you go to have hypnosis, you can't testify. Because there's no way to test what is real, what's fact, what's fantasy. ↗

— Betty Hill

#because #committed #crime #fact #fantasy

Since those who believe they need a hero/celebrity outnumber the actual heroes/celebrities, people feel safe and comfortably justified in numbers, committing egregious crimes in the name of the greater social ego. Ironically diminishing their own true hero-celebrity nature in the process. ↗

— Lauryn Hill

#believe #celebrities #celebrity #comfortably #committing

One of the things I learned is that you've got to deal with the underlying social problems if you want to have an impact on crime - that it's not a coincidence that you see the greatest amount of violent crime where you see the greatest amount of social dysfunction. ↗

— Eric Holder

#coincidence #crime #deal #dysfunction #got

The cure for crime is not the electric chair, but the high chair. ↗

— J. Edgar Hoover

#crime #cure #electric #high

Bigamy is the only crime where two rites make a wrong. ↗

— Bob Hope

#crime #make #only #rites #two

We are often deterred from crime by the disgrace of others. ↗

— Horace

#deterred #disgrace #often #others

I finally faced the fact that it isn't a crime not having friends. Being alone means you have fewer problems. ↗