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Crime Quotes
"He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it."
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"A jury of my countrymen, it is true, have found me guilty of the crime of which I stood indicted. For this I entertain not the slightest feeling of resentment towards them."
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"If, at the limit, you can rule without crime, you cannot do so without injustices."
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"Powerful states can maintain themselves only by crime, little states are virtuous only by weakness."
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"Crime is an overhead you have to pay if you want to live in the city."
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"The prisoner is not the one who has commited a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over."
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"Crime butchers innocence to secure a throne, and innocence struggles with all its might against the attempts of crime."
"Rape is the only crime in which the victim becomes the accused."
"There is one instance that we cite in the report where in one of the conversations a member of organized crime is talking to another member of organized crime and he suggests that Attorney General Kennedy should be murdered."
"If we were really tough on crime, we'd do more to stop it from happening in the first place."
"Once I've done a crime, I just forget it. I go from crime to crime."
"What becomes a crime deserving capital punishment when the tables are turned is a matter of small moment when the negro woman is the accusing party."
"Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal."
"What does signature mean? Supposedly these are the added touches that make the crime personal to the killer."
"I think seeing some of the past can be helpful, especially if you're into crime solving."
"Three thousand jurisdictions across the U.S. are estimated to have had gang activity in 2001. In 2002, 32% of cities with a population of 25 to 50 thousand reported a gang-related homicide."
"I think there's a lot of naivete and hubris within our mix of personalities. That's probably our worst crime. I keep wondering what a "mature" record means."
"If we believe in our current penal process, then the penalties imposed by judges and juries should be the only sanctions for one's crime, not the invisible sanctions of the legislature."
"Killing someone is the ultimate crime, while on the other hand, killing someone in uniform is fulfillment of duty."
"Crime stories are, as you know, one of the most popular forms of entertainment that exist. If you then try to have something to say... that I have, of course."
"The Holocaust was the most evil crime ever committed."
"He who allows oppression shares the crime."
"There's a simple way to solve the crime problem: obey the law; punish those who do not."
"I just spent 11 and a half months in a maximum-security jail, got shot five times, and was wrongly convicted of a crime I didn't commit."
"Cops and robbers resemble each other, so there's not a lot to learn in terms of learning the logistics of committing the crime or investigating the crime."
"Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime."
"I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law."
"All I can really say is it's bloodier than hell. In this one I'm going to be much more direct and honest in my description of the actual killings and the crime scene."
"First of all, I'm in favor of making price gouging a crime, and in fact, one the reasons I didn't vote for the Republican House version was because there were too many breaks for the oil companies."
"What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is the last resort of political half-wits."
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