Crime Quotes
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The penalty may be removed, the crime is eternal.
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To open his lips is crime in a plain citizen.
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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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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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The expansion and sophistication of transnational crime represents one of the most dangerous threats we confront in the next millennium.
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Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.
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Alafair Burke is one of the finest young crime writers working today.
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Poverty is not the root cause of crime.
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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.
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The new racism, like God, works in mysterious ways and is quite effective in maintaining white privilege. For example, instead of saying as they used to say during the Jim Crow era that they do not want us as neighbors, they say things nowadays such as 'I am concerned about crime, property values and schools.'
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I've been very clear. I won. I didn't commit the crime.
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Despotism is a long 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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I know that philosophically a murderer is not responsible for his crime, but I prefer not to take tea with him.
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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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Ottawa is a hot spot of Canadian crime writing, with perhaps the greatest concentration of active, involved, published crime writers anywhere.
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'Getting smart on crime' does not mean reducing sentences or punishments for crimes.
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Many who resort to crime ultimately can't read or write.
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We also have a lot of people who are not Dutch, and who are in Holland as a guest, whether they are asylum seekers or others. I believe if you commit a crime you overstay your welcome, if we could extradite you.
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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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Any movement at all that reduces disease, that reduces overdoses, that reduces property crime, that reduces violent crime, is good.
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I used to always fight for human rights. I still fight for Leonard Peltier, who's spent 35 years in jail for a crime he didn't commit.
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In the end, crime doesn't pay.
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The contemporary crime novel is, at its best, a novel of character. That's where the suspense comes from.
