Crime Quotes
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Was not war itself a crime against God and humanity, and therefore, were not all those who sanctioned, engineered and conducted wars, war criminals?
Mahatma Gandhi
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Donald Beardslee is set for execution this week in California. His crimes were about twenty years ago, but it will be the first execution in California in quite some time.
Catherine Crier
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So many people that I've seen can't get clean water. It's a crime.
Jay-Z
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The central pillar of our justice system is due process. You have got to be charged with a crime. Then you can challenge those charges in a court of law with a trial.
George Takei
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Muslims who are here and who are behaving according to our laws and our constitutions are happy to stay, are equal to anybody else, or even want to help them with the better education, but if they cross the line of crime, start acting according to Sharia law, there will be no place for them in our free societies.
Geert Wilders
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Crime, to the man of the forties, was an alien monstrous terror.
Rebecca Harding Davis
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Here is your final lesson - do not commit the crime for which you now serve the sentence. God said, "Vengeance is mine." He believes in you.
Alexandre Dumas
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Transnational organized crime does not recognize any borders.
Patricia Espinosa
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Crime and vice generally require darkness for prowling. They disappear when light plays upon them.
Mahatma Gandhi
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That kill the bloom before its time, And blanch, without the owner's crime, The most resplendent hair.
William Wordsworth
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Crime is rampant. We even steal away from responsibility.
Andre Brie
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I have examined the death penalty under each of its two aspects: as a direct action, and as an indirect one. What does it come down to? Nothing but something horrible and useless, nothing but a way of shedding blood that is called a crime when an individual commits it, but is sadly called "justice" when society brings it about. Make no mistake, you lawmakers and judges, in the eyes of God as in those of conscience, what is a crime when individuals do it is no less an offense when society commits the deed.
Victor Hugo
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Just see how it glints and sparkles. Of course it is a nucleus and focus of crime.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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We should make it a crime even to attempt to pollute. Our children should grow up next to parks, not poison.
Bill Clinton
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The police and other law enforcements agencies are going to concentrate their efforts on organised crime, especially organised aggravated robbery
Charles Nqakula
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The crime should be punished no matter whether poverty or wealth caused it to occur, because the crime is wrong.
Ernest Van den Haag
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Bear in mind that you commit a crime by injuring even a wicked brother.
Seneca the Younger
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Negativity is often looked upon in the USA as a kind of thought crime. Not since the advent of socialist realism has the world witnessed such pathological upbeatness.
Terry Eagleton
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Nothing shocks our moral feelings so deeply as cruelty does. We can forgive every other crime, but not cruelty. The reason for this is that it is the very opposite of compassion.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Our crime was that we were beginning to live a new and contagious life-style without official authorization.
Tom Hayden
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For a punishment to be just it should consist of only such gradations of intensity as suffice to deter men from committing crimes.
Cesare Beccaria
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No matter how many people you kill, using a machine gun in battle is not a war crime because it does not cause unnecessary suffering; it simply performs its job horrifyingly well.
Sebastian Junger
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White-collar crime gets more outrageous by the second in America.
Sara Paretsky
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Whenever man commits a crime heaven finds a witness.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton