Crime Quotes
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In politics, there is only one crime that is unforgivable - showing weakness.
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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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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 make crime unprofitable, let the government run it.
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The Auschwitz praxis was based on a new principle: for one portion of mankind, existence itself is a crime, punishable by humiliation, torture, and death. And the new world produced by this praxis included two kinds of inhabitants, those who were given the "punishment" and those who administered it.
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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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The United States and Mexico are trapped - economically, culturally, politically and because of drug crime - in the same continent.
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What does signature mean? Supposedly these are the added touches that make the crime personal to the killer.
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This could never be a crime in any society which deems himself enlightened.
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I think I'm part of a generation of crime writers all of whom woke up independently and recoiled with horror at the fact that we'd chosen this very conservative genre.
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Pushing the boundaries of polite society does not just fall under the purview of crime fiction authors.
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In a free world there is, alas, more common crime than in a dictatorial system.
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No study has brought out any solid evidence that the death penalty deters crime. In fact, Amnesty reports that 'the murder rate in states which use the death penalty is twice that of states which do not, according to FBI statistics.
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I read a lot of thrillers, especially American crime novels.
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That's why I love crime novels so much: When I write a crime novel, the conflict is built in.
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To be smart on crime, we should not be in a position of constantly reacting to crime after it happens. We should be looking at preventing crime before it happens.
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War of aggression, war which does not imply defense of one's country, is a collective crime.
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Certainly, I don't think I can ever be accused of being soft on crime.
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One would have thought that it was even more necessary to limit population than property; and that the limit should be fixed by calculating the chances of mortality in the children, and of sterility in married persons. The neglect of this subject, which in existing states is so common, is a never-failing cause of poverty among the citizens; and poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.
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Tomorrow at 7, I shall be shot; but I am innocent of the crime of rebellion. I am going to die with a tranquil conscience.
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How do we know when someone like Hasan is going to make his move and do we know he's an Islamist until he's made his move? He makes a phone call or whatever, according to Reuters right now. Apparently he tried to contact al-Qaida. Is that the point at which you say, "This guy is dangerous?" That's not a crime to call up al-Qaida, is it? Is it? I mean, where do you stop the guy?
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Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.
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Crime against the individual is the equivalent of crime against humanity.
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Crafting a piece of gripping, narrative true crime that engages the world is not that different from crafting a piece of crime fiction.
