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Criminality Quotes

On criminality in film, history, and fiction.

These quotes examine criminality across contexts: how two connected films trace its evolution on screen, and how history remembers its most shameless regimes.

When my father made 'Jean de Florette' and 'Manon des Sources' back to back, everybody said, 'Why two movies?' But you need two movies to show how criminality evolves, and to tell the story: You can't show a man in...

Quotes by Thomas Langmann

The shameless criminality of Lenin, Stalin, and the Cheka cast a long shadow, but I don't see their kind returning anytime soon.

Quotes by Simon Sebag Montefiore

What's crucial is that the IRA produce a credible statement that paramilitary and criminality activity is a thing of the past. That they are committed to a future which is exclusively peaceful and democratic.

Quotes by Peter Hain

The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.

Quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Action Quotes

We wanted to describe society from our Left point of view. Per had written political books, but they'd only sold 300 copies. We realised that people read crime and through the stories we could show the reader that under the...

Quotes by Maj Sjowall

I think there is a case for strong action and intervention when there is criminality and when the leaders are corrupt or behaving in a criminal fashion.

Quotes by Jay Weatherill

We think criminality is something that exists in somehow another world to us. But actually, there is an invisible criminal web in which we are all enveloped.

Quotes by James Watkins

I think what's always been interesting to me than the science and the criminality with this job is what happens to your persona, your disposition, after day in and day out dealing with life and death.

Quotes by George Eads

Let me completely condemn these sickening scenes; scenes of looting, scenes of vandalism, scenes of thieving, scenes of people attacking police, of people even attacking firefighters. This is criminality pure and simple and it has to be confronted.

Quotes by David Cameron

Activity Quotes

A hoodie is worn by everybody: kids, white men, white women, black men. But it clings to the black body as a sign of criminality like nothing else.

Quotes by Claudia Rankine

A lot of my friends are gangsters. Not like gangsters - well, yeah, all sorts of levels of criminality - but not the types that are preying on innocent people. I have no interest in the type of criminality that...

Quotes by Charlie Hunnam

I have seen such an immense change from the total repression and criminality of homosexuality in my lifetime. It does make me much more buoyant and optimistic about the future. If that change can occur in that time there's hope...

Quotes by Bob Brown

There is nothing new in the realization that the Constitution sometimes insulates the criminality of a few in order to protect the privacy of us all.

Quotes by Antonin Scalia

Individual bankers are rightly being investigated by the police. I and all colleagues in the chamber hope that if criminality is proven, they will go to jail and bear the same brunt of punishment as any other criminal.

Quotes by Andrea Leadsom

Frequently Asked Questions

What contexts do these criminality quotes cover?
Film, history, and fiction, exploring how criminality gets portrayed on screen, remembered in history, and used to comment on society through crime stories.
What does the quote about two connected films mean?
It explains that showing criminality evolve realistically required telling the story across two films rather than compressing it into one.
Is there a quote about historical figures and criminality?
Yes, one references how the ruthless criminality of a notorious 20th-century political apparatus still casts a long shadow, without naming any individual leader here.
Does a quote reflect on criminality closer to home?
Yes, one argues that a society's own luxury, folly, and criminality are the real internal enemies it must contend with, rather than only external threats.
Why did one writer choose crime fiction over political books?
Because straightforward political books reached few readers, while crime stories offered a way to reach a much wider audience with the same underlying social commentary. See related Action quotes.

One also explains choosing crime fiction as a way to reach readers a straightforward political book could not. See Action quotes.