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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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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There is nothing you can do to assuage your conscience when you commit sins. Crime is a spiritual assault on the soul.
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Failure is not a crime. Failure to learn from failure is.
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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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Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.
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The penalty may be removed, the crime is eternal.
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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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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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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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To open his lips is crime in a plain citizen.
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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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Despotism is a long crime.
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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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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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Jason Bourne was the name of someone in American military intelligence—a traitor who was shot dead for his crime. When the present Bourne was recruited into Treadstone he was given the name of the dead man.
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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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Many who resort to crime ultimately can't read or write.
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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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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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This could never be a crime in any society which deems himself enlightened.
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To make crime unprofitable, let the government run it.
