#crime

Murphy's face went through several mutations as he spoke, as if small animals were scurrying about just beneath his skin. ↗

— Pete Hautman

#gambling #hunting #series #money

She knew with chilling and absolute certainty she was next. ↗

— Alexa Grace

#crime-thriller #romance-novels #romantic-suspense #thriller #romantic

That God is in truth the sort of bloodthirsty paranoid Who would rend to bits forty-two children for the crime of sassing one of his priests. Don't ask me about the Front Office's policies; I just work here. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#god #priests #religion #stranger-in-a-strange-land #religion

This director could say many things about duty, and self-respect, and dignity, but she knew none of these meant much in the post-modern world. ↗

— B. Barmanbek

#future #science-fiction #utopia #respect

Her aunt and uncle worked fifteen hours a day in their desperate attempt to keep the corner shop in profit, and their Sundays were marked by exhaustion. The moral code by which they lived was that of cleanliness, respectability and prudence. Religion was for those who had the time for it, a middle-class indulgence. ↗

— P.D. James

#murder #pd-james #the-murder-room #religion

Sick is a relative concept. We’re all sick. The question is, what degree of functionality do we have with respect to the rules society sets for desirable behavior? No actions are in themselves symptoms of sickness. You have to look at the context within which these actions are performed. ↗

— Jo Nesbø The Redbreast

#fiction #harry-hole #scandinavian-mysteries #respect

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

— Andrew Vachss

#greed #greed

So I'm over there in England, you know, trying to get news about the [L.A.] riots... and all these Brit people are trying to sympathize with me... 'Oh Bill, crime is horrible. Bill, if it's any consolation crime is horrible here, too.' ...Shutup. This is Hobbitown and I am Bilbo Hicks, Okay? This is a land of fairies and elves. You do not have crime like we have crime, but I appreciate you trying to be, you know, Diplomatic. You gotta see English crime. It's hilarious, you don't know if you're reading the front page or the comic section over there. I swear to God. I read an article - front page of the paper - one day, in England: 'Yesterday, some Hooligans knocked over a dustbin in Shafsbry.' Wooooo... 'The hooligans are loose! The hooligans are loose! What if they become roughians? I would hate to be a dustbin in Shafsbry tonight. ↗

— Bill Hicks

#england-cricket-team #hooligans #humor #roughians #humor

There is no right to punish. There is only the power to punish,' she wrote. 'A man is punished for his crime because the State is stronger than he; the great crime of War is not punished because beyond the individual there is mankind, and beyond mankind there is nothing at all. ↗

— Benjamin Moser

#punishment #war #biography

I just can’t comprehend, that you, Borge, of all people, couldn’t keep your mouth shut. ↗

— Steen Langstrup

#scandinavian-mysteries #world-war-ii #world-war-ii