Crime Quotes
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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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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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Every place in the country you should get a license that shows you know how to safely store it, keep it away from your children or grandchildren. You should have to license it so the police can trace it if it's used in a crime. [On keeping guns]
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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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The penalty may be removed, the crime is eternal.
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Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.
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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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Failure is not a crime. Failure to learn from failure is.
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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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There are no uncriminal crimes.
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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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The most divisive issue facing New Yorkers in 2013 is stop and frisk, a tactic used by law enforcement to stop, question, and frisk people suspected of a crime.
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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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Slave camps under the flag of freedom, massacres justified by philanthropy or the taste of the superhuman, cripple judgment. On the day when crime puts on the apparel of innocence, through a curious reversal peculiar to our age, it is innocence that is called on to justify itself. The purpose of this essay is to accept and study that strange challenge.
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In politics, there is only one crime that is unforgivable - showing weakness.
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I read a lot of thrillers, especially American crime novels.
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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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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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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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Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.
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Despotism is a long crime.
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Wit implies hatred or contempt of folly and crime, produces its effects by brisk shocks of surprise, uses the whip of scorpions and the branding-iron, stabs, stings, pinches, tortures, goads, teases, corrodes, undermines.
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To open his lips is crime in a plain citizen.
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What does signature mean? Supposedly these are the added touches that make the crime personal to the killer.
