Crime Quotes
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Membership of a terrorist group is a serious crime, as is encouraging or supporting terrorism, but Shamima Begum should face justice for those crimes in the UK.
Edward Davey
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Another tormentor inquired if it was true that I had installed two ping-pong tables in my basement. I asked, was it a crime? No, he said, but why two? Is that a crime? I countered, and they all laughed.
Vladimir Nabokov
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Arabs don't do crime fiction. I read crime fiction and I read Arabic literature, and I wish this was a novel I could have read in Arabic.
Elliott Colla
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My only crime was being born black - or being born black in Alabama.
Anthony Ray Hinton
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I spent 10 years as a marketing manager. I've found my experience in the financial world invaluable background for writing about white-collar crimes.
Sara Paretsky
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I think today we've gone so far technologically and also just emotionally and psychologically, I mean there's a lot of crime out there and there's a lot of stuff going on. People don't care that they're going to go to prison. They couldn't give a rat about the repercussions. They go out and they do what they do and they don't care about hurting anyone else.
Johnny Depp
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I spent 10 years as a marketing manager. I've found my experience in the financial world invaluable background for writing about white-collar crimes.
Sara Paretsky
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How could passion run so deep Had I never thought That the crime of being born Blackens all our lot?
William Butler Yeats
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I've seen villages in South America with no police whatever. Then the cops would arrive, then the sanitary inspectors, and before you know it they've got all the problems - crime, juvenile delinquency, the whole works - just like us.
William S. Burroughs
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In the name of a greater civilization, we curse those who for the sake of their ambitious dreams, brought about the massacre of so many young lives. No matter how brutal the crime, you will always get glorification of its heroism and tradition from the eunuchs of bourgeois culture.”
Amadeo Bordiga
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Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
Tacitus
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I think the English are bipolar. 'We're the greatest, no we're terrible' - that's a constant English struggle. Crime is down, there's little poverty - yet it's always the worst time to have lived here.
Dara O Briain
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If we were really tough on crime, we'd try to save our children from the desperation and deprivation that leave them primed for a life of crime.
Carrie P. Meek
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There's a huge incentive to ... sail on. Is going on a cruise the perfect way to commit the perfect crime?
Chris Shays
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It is the certainty of being punished and not the horrifying spectacle of public punishment that must discourage crime.
Michel Foucault
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Jekyll and Hyde, in particular, is such an important novel in terms of suspense and setting a perfect scene for crime.
Alanna Knight
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Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime.
Vittorio Alfieri
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If mankind had always been logical and wise, history would not be a long chronicle of folly and crime.
James G. Frazer
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Crime is not punished as an offense against God, but as prejudicial to society.
James Anthony Froude
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Crime is redeemed by remorse, but not by a blow of the axe or slipknot. Blood has to be washed by tears but not by blood.
Victor Hugo
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For thirty years, we’ve been saying “more cops, more prisons, tougher laws.” Not only hasn’t it really worked in terms of crime, but beyond that the fallout has been so significant.
Eugene Puryear
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Children of the future age Reading this indignant page Know that in a former time Love, sweet love, was thought a crime.
William Blake
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The wine-shops breed, in physical atmosphere of malaria and a moral pestilence of envy and vengeance, the men of crime and revolution.
Charles Dickens
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There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.
William Hazlitt