Crime Quotes
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One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.
John Ruskin
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Any time you have poverty, joblessness, sub-par public schools, and a lack of opportunity, you're going to have a high rate of crime.
George Pelecanos
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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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It is hardly fair to accuse us of ignorance when it was made a crime under the former order of things to learn enough about letters to even read the Word of God.
George H. White
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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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I love all kinds of movies. I'd especially like to make some, you know, violent crime drama.
Rob Zombie
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The crime part is the engine that moves the narrative and allows me to write the other things I want to write about.
George Pelecanos
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Corruption is simply crime without conscience.
George Richard Marek
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I find it hilarious that if we lie to the government, it's a crime. But if they lie to us its politics.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
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Let's stop pretending we can arrest our way to safety and security. Despite all the fine work that policemen and women do, we have got to find other solutions to deter crime.
Carrie P. Meek
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People just like a good crime story; they want to know who did it.
Sarah Koenig
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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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You have an electorate in America that wants to see people who are not tough on crime.
Nat Hentoff
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It's hard to say exactly what amount of money is involved, but it's huge. There is a very dark, black cloud in this game. It's not in the hands of kids who live next door to you; it's organized groups and organized crime.
Bob Wright
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If we were really tough on crime, we'd do more to stop it from happening in the first place.
Carrie P. Meek
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If a war be undertaken...before the resources of peace have been tried and proved vain to secure it, that war has no defense, it is a national crime.
Charles Eliot Norton
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...chance is sometimes a wonderful accomplice in crime.
Emile Gaboriau
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Because the state can no longer protect us from crime, it wants to take away from us the means of protecting ourselves. This is the logic of gun control.
Joseph Sobran
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The greater the crime perpetrated by the leadership, the less likely it is that the people will ever believe their leaders to be capable of perpetrating such an event.
Adolf Hitler
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I think that it's a crime to say you are bored when time is so precious and there are so many things to do in life: read, learn, watch.
Karl Lagerfeld
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Knowing what Christ knew , knowing all about mankind--ah! who would have thought that the crime is not so much to make others die, but to die oneself--confronted day and night with his innocent crime, it became too difficult to go on. It was better to get it over with, to not defend himself, to die, in order not to be the only one to have survived, and to go elsewhere, where, perhaps, he would be supported.
Albert Camus
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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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Come not, when I am dead, To drop thy foolish tears upon my grave, To trample round my fallen head, And vex the unhappy dust thou wouldst not save. There let the wind sweep and the plover cry; But thou, go by. Child, if it were thine error or thy crime I care no longer, being all unblest; Wed whom thou wilt, but I am sick of Time, And I desire to rest. Pass on, weak heart, and leave me where I lie: Go by, go by.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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It doesn't take a brain surgeon to figure out that if you stop or curtail stop-and-frisk, or if cops are reluctant to do it, violent crimes are going to go up.
Raymond Kelly