#crime

There's no point regretting things. If you can't do the time, don't do the crime. Life's too short to worry about things I've said. ↗

— Robbie Williams

#crime #i #life #no point #point

Crime is the price society pays for abandoning character. ↗

— James Q. Wilson

#character #crime #pays #price #society

Crime, family dissolution, welfare, and low levels of social organization are fundamentally a consequence of the disappearance of work. ↗

— William Julius Wilson

#crime #disappearance #dissolution #family #fundamentally

Once I pulled a job, I was so stupid. I picked a guy's pocket on an airplane and made a run for it. ↗

— Rodney Dangerfield

#funny #humour #funny

Prosecutors say my father was the biggest crime boss in the nation... If you really want to know what John Gotti was like, you need to talk to my family. We lived this life. ↗

— Victoria Gotti

#boss #crime #family #father #john

At that point, I sat down and made an alphabetical list of all the crime related words I could think of. So here I am now, nearly half-way through, probably tied up until the year 2015 or SO. ↗

— Sue Grafton

#could #crime #down #half-way #here

I was assigned to the Waffen-SS but was never involved in any crime. Besides, I always felt the need to write about my experiences in a larger context one day. This has only developed recently, now that I have overcome my inner aversion to writing an autobiography in the first place, specifically one having to do with my younger years. ↗

— Gunter Grass

#always #any #assigned #autobiography #aversion

The fact that New York continues in the face of all of the chaos, of the crime, of the madness, you just think that it would just pop and vanish, just explode. ↗

— Spalding Gray

#continues #crime #explode #face #fact

In the deregulated realm of US banking and finance, crime does occasionally pay for its foul deeds, not in prison time but by making modest rebates to the victims. ↗

— William Greider

#crime #deeds #deregulated #does #finance

The last copy of the Chicago Daily News I picked up had three crime stories on its front page. But by comparison to the gaudy days, this is small-time stuff. Chicago is as full of crooks as a saw with teeth, but the era when they ruled the city is gone forever. ↗

— John Gunther

#city #comparison #copy #crime #crooks