Crime Quotes
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Starvation, and not sin, is the parent of modern 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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Obviously crime pays, or there'd be no crime.
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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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All issues of crime are better addressed at the state level.
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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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I will live in TV Land watching 'Columbo.' I also like my 'Forensic Files,' all of that true crime.
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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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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 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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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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If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.
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Crafting a piece of gripping, narrative true crime that engages the world is not that different from crafting a piece of crime fiction.
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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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I'm the Jerry Lewis of crime fiction.
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'Murder in the First' takes 12 episodes to explore the crime and the issues surrounding it, all in the hopes of answering the question, 'How did we get to this point?'
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The contemporary crime novel is, at its best, a novel of character. That's where the suspense comes from.
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Sedition involves sloganeering with incitement. It may be anti-national, but not a crime, unless you incite violence or communal tension.
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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.
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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.
