Cesare Beccaria (Cesare Bonesana di Beccaria) Quotes
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Stress is the reason for crime and all other kinds of frustration. To relieve it will eliminate everything else.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi -
When an accident or a crime happens, there's a period of time before the yellow tape goes up, before the official response becomes formalized. That allows the nightcrawlers to get very close.
Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club -
The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
Ottawa is a hot spot of Canadian crime writing, with perhaps the greatest concentration of active, involved, published crime writers anywhere.
Vicki Delany -
I think 'In The Heat Of The Night' was one of the most influential films on me. Looking back now, I can see how influential it was on my screenwriting because here you have what looks to be a crime procedural, and it's actually a study in race and loneliness, and a perception of an era.
Taylor Sheridan -
What does signature mean? Supposedly these are the added touches that make the crime personal to the killer.
Pat Brown
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The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.
Samuel Gompers -
I will live in TV Land watching 'Columbo.' I also like my 'Forensic Files,' all of that true crime.
Octavia Spencer -
Our country's national crime is lynching. It is not the creature of an hour, the sudden outburst of uncontrolled fury, or the unspeakable brutality of an insane mob.
Ida B. Wells -
People have told me about organized crime in the fashion industry, but I can't talk about that. I'm looking to stay alive.
Calvin Klein -
Certainly, I don't think I can ever be accused of being soft on crime.
Sally Yates -
No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been.
Hannah Arendt
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White-collar crime has been marketed - billions of dollars have been put in to have us be bored by it.
Adam McKay -
Sedition involves sloganeering with incitement. It may be anti-national, but not a crime, unless you incite violence or communal tension.
Kapil Sibal -
The contemporary crime novel is, at its best, a novel of character. That's where the suspense comes from.
Val McDermid -
If a juror feels that the statute involved in any criminal offence is unfair, or that it infringes upon the defendant's natural god-given unalienable or constitutional rights, then it is his duty to affirm that the offending statute is really no law at all and that the violation of it is no crime at all, for no one is bound to obey an unjust law.
Harlan Stone -
You don't have many suspects who are innocent of a crime. That's contradictory. If a person is innocent of a crime, then he is not a suspect.
Edwin Meese -
Let the punishment fit the crime.
W. S. Gilbert
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So I was shampooing at 14. But I've always thought that had I the opportunity for an education, I would have been an architect. There's no question about it.
Vidal Sassoon -
The full horror of what has happened in the United States earlier today is now becoming clearer. It is hard even to contemplate the utter carnage and terror which has engulfed so many innocent people. We've offered President Bush and the American people our solidarity, our profound sympathy, and our prayers. But it is plain that citizens of many countries round the world, including Britain, will have been caught up in this terror.
Tony Blair -
With any character you portray, you can never play the end in the beginning. You have to pursue and attack your intention as if they're going to be successful.
Sterling K. Brown -
I've always liked ladies all my life. I guess it started with my mom. So every time I saw a pretty lady, I thought, she's pretty.
B. B. King -
We think that computers are the most remarkable tools that humankind has ever come up with, and we think that people are basically tool users. So if we can just get lots of computers to lots of people, it will make some qualitative difference to the world.
Steve Jobs -
It is better to prevent crimes than to punish them.
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