Crime Quotes
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People have told me about organized crime in the fashion industry, but I can't talk about that. I'm looking to stay alive.
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Starvation, and not sin, is the parent of modern crime.
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Obviously crime pays, or there'd be no crime.
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Until the year 1967, it was a crime, for which you could be put in prison, to make homosexual love to someone in your own house. If they came in and caught you at it, you could be put into prison. This has changed - I'm talking about England, incidentally.
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The intention makes the crime.
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No crime is vulgar, but all vulgarity is crime.
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Poverty is not the root cause of crime.
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In the case of a man and a woman accused of committing a crime together, both will often agree to the man taking the rap-despite the man being more likely to receive a longer sentence and more likely to be raped in prison. If blacks were agreeing to do that for whites, the black community would be smart enough to call that ‘learned subservience.’
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All issues of crime are better addressed at the state level.
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I will live in TV Land watching 'Columbo.' I also like my 'Forensic Files,' all of that true crime.
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I think there's a lot of naivete and hubris within our mix of personalities. That's probably our worst crime. I keep wondering what a 'mature' record means.
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Delaying and withholding tactics, red herrings, partial and doubtful outcomes are stock in trade for fiction writers, especially crime writers.
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There are 195 crime books published in Sweden every year. You could cut that to 100 and keep the good ones.
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I'm sort of fascinated by the whole espionage crime thing.
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A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.
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The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.
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Continuous persecution of widows and orphans is a crime. Even the Bible says there is a specific place in hell for those who oppress widows.
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A good writer can set a thriller anywhere and make it convincing: the trick is to evoke the setting in such a way that it highlights the crime or unsettles the reader.
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All is extremely genteel; and there is almost as much repose as in the golden saloons of the contiguous palaces. At any rate, if there be as much vice, there is as little crime.
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If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.
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There are no uncriminal crimes.
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No American should be killed by a drone on American soil without first being charged with a crime, without first being found guilty of a crime by a court.
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I'm the Jerry Lewis of crime fiction.
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When private property is abolished there will be no necessity for crime, no demand for it; it will cease to exist.
