Crime Quotes
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Nor all that heralds rake from coffin'd clay, Nor florid prose, nor honied lies of rhyme, Can blazon evil deeds, or consecrate a crime.
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Dark windows are often a very clear proof.
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That kill the bloom before its time, And blanch, without the owner's crime, The most resplendent hair.
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Many things would be changed for Americans if they would only admit that there is ill-luck in this world and that misfortune is not a priori a crime.
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For every crime that comes before him, a judge is required to complete a perfect syllogism in which the major premise must be the general law; the minor, the action that conforms or does not conform to the law; and the conclusion, acquittal or punishment. If the judge were constrained, or if he desired to frame even a single additional syllogism, the door would thereby be opened to uncertainty.
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Mobster stories are always a harder sell for me. I don't romanticize organize crime the way others do, though I can be swayed.
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The source of every crime, is some defect of the understanding; or some error in reasoning; or some sudden force of the passions. Defect in the understanding is ignorance; in reasoning, erroneous opinion.
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I have, at times, not been totally on the same page as some of my previous partners in crime.
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What about freedom of expression when anti-Semitism is involved? Then it is not freedom of expression. Then it is a crime.
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When people get hungry and desperate, things get ugly. And I'll tell you where it's really going to get ugly: crime is going to go to levels we've never seen before.
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Is a newspaper prints a sex crime, it's smut, but when The New York Times prints it, it's a sociological study.
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Crime oft recoils upon the author's head.
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Nothing shocks our moral feelings so deeply as cruelty does. We can forgive every other crime, but not cruelty. The reason for this is that it is the very opposite of compassion.
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I'm not a racist.It would had also go for Swedish people, for Australian people.Of course that would apply with anybody for any dual nationality, but the mere fact would be the reality because we have overrepresentation of often Moroccan people and other people from Islamic background in a crime that they would be stripped of the Dutch nationality and sent away.
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Moral contempt is a far greater indignity and insult than any kind of crime.
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In England, if you commit a crime, the police don’t have a gun and you don’t have a gun. If you commit a crime, the police will say “Stop, or I’ll say stop again.
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I read a lot of true-crime books, but sometimes they can put you in a bad mood.
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Terrorists are as big a threat to our future, perhaps bigger, than organized crime.
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If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.
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Like small cities, cruise ships experience crime ? from petty to profoundly tragic.
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Laws against the possession of weapons only disarm those who have no intention of committing a crime.
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In the case of The Thin Blue Line, I was surprised actually by many things. I was shooting down in Texas where the actual killer David Harris lived and I interviewed the town cop. He described these guys as being David Harris' partners in crime and even though they had criminal records and had committed crimes, they sued me! More often than not, the insurance company that protects you against this type of lawsuit will settle it with cash and contest it in a court of law.
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How come they don't think you can handle a new story out of the blue on the TV news? They gotta make a little lame segue. "Hey, that's a big lotto jackpot! Speaking of lotto, there was a lot o' crime in the city today."
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Many of us are under the delusion that the police exist solely to deal with crime and keep us safe. That is to ignore the major focus of many of today's top cops on managing reputation - both of their force and, by default, their careers.
