The Chinese had a saying that had been in her mind for a while, troubling her: Society prepares the crime; the criminal only commits it.
– James Patterson
Related Quotes:
- Society prepares the crime, the criminal commits it. – Henry Thomas Buckle
- A criminal mind needs consideration rather than the criminal itself. In truth, there are more criminals than those who committed a crime. – Harshit Walia
- For something to be a crime there must be both an actus reus and mens rea -” that is, a criminal act accompanied by a criminal state of mind. – Alan Dershowitz
- If a criminal was once a saint & a saint was once a criminal, then who is the criminal & who is the saint? – Sanchit Gupta
- The fool’s crime is the crime that is found out and the wise man’s crime is the crime that is not found out. – Wilkie Collins
- …But even then you have to reckon with a criminal’s chief vice.”What is that?” Conceit. A criminal never believes that his crime can fail. – Agatha Christie
- Anger prepares us to fight and fear prepares us to flee. – Chip Heath
- With homework, school prepares students for overtime. With reports, it prepares them for payday. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- Chinese food in Texas is the best Chinese food in the United States except Boston. – John Updike
- In 1924 Mao took a Chinese friend, newly arrived from Europe, to see the notorious sign in the Shanghai park, ‘Chinese and Dogs Not Allowed’. – Paul Johnson
- One has to commit a painting,’ said Degas,’the way one commits a crime. – Elizabeth Bishop
- Crime? What crime? … My killing a loathsome, harmful louse, a filthy old moneylender woman … and you call that a crime? – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- A criminal remains a criminal whether he uses a convict’s suit or a monarch’s crown. – Victor Hugo
- To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace – Malcolm X
- A crowded society is a restrictive society; an overcrowded society becomes an authoritarian, repressive and murderous society. – Edward Abbey
- Every time I think about that girl, my mind commits a sin. – Jake VanderArk
- Some people call street lights ‘Crime Lights’, as they are associated with an increased level of criminal activity. – Steven Magee
- When you print out your manuscript and read it, marking up with a pen, it sometimes feels like a criminal returning to the scene of a crime. – Don Roff
- If I could split myself into five people, I would still be behind on my writing schedule. I see now why James Patterson cloned himself so many times. – Peter James West
- Europeans condemned Chinese foot binding, but any society that had invented the corset had a lot to answer for. – Mary Jo Putney
- The sacrifices of time and money that Chinese friends will make for one another often go far beyond what is expected or accepted in Western society. – Larry Herzberg
- Dreamless nights, I knew, can be the most troubling, since you come back not knowing where you’ve been or what you’ve done. – Alan Bradley
- People will never stop They will say. Stop troubling yourself They are not family They are that’s why called ‘PEOPLE – Prerna Sharma
- It is when suffering finds a voice andsets our nerves quivering that this pity comes troubling us. – HG Wells
- Instead of writing backwards over what had happened, giving structure and meaning to his story, he wrote forwards, slipping into troubling futures. – Alan McCluskey
- It’s a troubling paradox – I have total control, but only to the extent I have control over myself. – Blake Crouch
- Desire is suffering. A simple equation, and a nice catchphrase. But flipped around, it is more troubling: suffering is desire. – Charles Yu
- It occurs to me that if I don’t sort myself out soon I will die of meaninglessness. That is the price of avoiding the things I find troubling. – Kyo Maclear
- At that moment I had no mind to change, or not change, or throw against the nearest wall. – James Patterson
- To identity friend or foe is often impossible, unless someone commits a hostile act. – General Retd Pervez Musharraf
- God only commits when you do. – Bery Dov
- …so unbelief alone commits sin..Hence Christ calls unbelief the only sin. – Martin Luther
- A clever man commits no minor blunders. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessor. – Emil M Cioran
- Women are also property in our bible; adultery is a property crime in the Old Testament, not a sex crime. – Bill Maher
- We do not condemn it because it is a crime, but it is a crime because we condemn it. – mile Durkheim
- 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? – George Carlin
- If only they gave all unsolved crime cases television air time, they could be solved within an hour on one of those crime story shows. – Spaz tastic
- Police not enforcing laws results in a high crime rate that is formally reported as a low crime rate in police statistics. – Steven Magee
- Perfection in art is a crime against humanity. Perfect humanity in crime is art – Dean Cavanagh