Crime Quotes
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The poor and minorities are disproportionately both crime's perpetrators and its victims. People are saddened when this happens but not surprised.
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I constantly remind people that crime isn't solved by technology; it's solved by people.
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Failure is not a crime. Failure to learn from failure is.
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The penalty may be removed, the crime is eternal.
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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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The expansion and sophistication of transnational crime represents one of the most dangerous threats we confront in the next millennium.
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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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To open his lips is crime in a plain citizen.
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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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Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.
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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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Despotism is a long crime.
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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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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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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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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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'Getting smart on crime' does not mean reducing sentences or punishments for crimes.
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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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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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With 'Pretty Girls,' I saw the opportunity to talk not just about crime but what crime leaves behind.
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Many who resort to crime ultimately can't read or write.
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This could never be a crime in any society which deems himself enlightened.
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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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To make crime unprofitable, let the government run it.
