286 Quotes About Criminals

Maigret had often tried to get other people, including men of experience, to admit that those who fall, especially those who have a morbid determination to descend ever lower, are almost always idealists.

Newspapers always tell us the same things. The only things they change are the dates and the photographs and the names of the scenes, the victims, and the perpetrators.

Michelle had great admiration for criminals and crime, though only from a distance.

Merciful heavens! Human treatment may even render human a man in whom the image of God has long ago been tarnished. It is these 'unfortunates' that must be treated in the most human fashion. This is their salvation and their joy.

How is a sincere criminal, trying hard, going to get ahead in his profession if his victim fails to cooperate?

There are no crimes and no criminals in these days. What is the use of having brains in our profession? I know well that I have it in me to make my name famous. No man lives or has ever lived who has brought the same amount of study and of natural talent to the detection of crime which I have done. And what is the result? There is no crime to detect, or, at most, some bungling villainy with a motive so transparent that even a Scotland Yard official can see through it.

As professionals , the odds were in our favor, or so we believed.

When privacy is criminalized, only criminals will have privacy.

The laws governed people’s happiness. To be lawless was to be happy.