Crime Quotes
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You switched the days," I said, dismayed. "You blew the tire. You..." I trailed off, probably because the next words out of my mouth were either going to be "You are enough to do this?" or "You're destined for a life of crime." It was a toss-up either way.
Ally Carter
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Intemperance is the epitome of every crime, the cause of every kind of misery.
Douglas Jerrold
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When somebody has dual citizenship and commits a crime, his Dutch passport should be revoked and he should be deported to the other country, even if he was born here.
Geert Wilders
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Commit all your crimes when Sachin is batting. They will go unnoticed because even the Lord is watching.
Sachin Tendulkar
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John Howard turned the prime ministership into something like a state police minister. He's at the scene of every crime, twice a day on radio, the guy did no thinking.
Paul Keating
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Punishments of unreasonable severity, especially where indiscriminately afflicted, have less effect in preventing crimes, and amending the manners of a people, than such as are more merciful in general, yet properly intermixed with due distinctions of severity.
William Blackstone
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If mankind had always been logical and wise, history would not be a long chronicle of folly and crime.
James G. Frazer
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Guide the people by law, subdue them by punishment; they may shun crime, but will be void of shame. Guide them by example, subdue them by courtesy; they will learn shame, and come to be good.
Confucius
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Children of the future age Reading this indignant page Know that in a former time Love, sweet love, was thought a crime.
William Blake
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Of crimes injurious to the persons of private subjects, the most principal and important is the offense of taking away that life, which is the immediate gift of the great creator; and which therefore no man can be entitled to deprive himself or another of, but in some manner either expressly commanded in, or evidently deducible from, those laws which the creator has given us; the divine laws, I mean, of either nature or revelation.
William Blackstone
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“Crime expands according to our willingness to put up with it.”
Barry Farber
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You keep accusing me of blasphemy all of the time, but I cannot be convicted of a victimless crime.
Dan Barker
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For an act may be wrong judged purely by itself, but when the motive that prompted the act is understood, it is construed differently. I lay it down as an axiom, that only that is criminal in the sight of God where crime is meditated.
Elizabeth Keckley
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What do you think, would not one tiny crime be wiped out by thousands of good deeds?
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Detroit is still seen as the tough city, a city that has a reputation for high crime, ... The tough city thing is fine. Its always had a reputation as that. ... You know, Gordie Howe, when I was watching hockey, was the toughest guy in the league playing for the Red Wings. He represented that tough aura.
Eugene Levy
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If nothing else is left, one must scream. Silence is the real crime against humanity.
Nadezhda Mandelstam
