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Crime, family dissolution, welfare, and low levels of social organization are fundamentally a consequence of the disappearance of work.
Author:
William Wilson
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Crime is the price society pays for abandoning character.
Author:
James Wilson
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I believe that the high rates of property crime (and some of the increase in violent crime) are part of the price you pay for freedom.
Author:
James Wilson
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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.
Author:
Ian Williams
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Let's remember the children who come from broken homes, surrounded by crime, drugs, temptation, their peers having babies out of wedlock, but who still manage to get a good education despite the many obstacles they face every day.
Author:
Armstrong Williams
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It is hardly fair to accuse us of ignorance when it was made a crime under the former order of things to learn enough about letters to even read the Word of God.
Author:
George White
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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.
Author:
Ida Wells
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The negro has suffered far more from the commission of this crime against the women of his race by white men than the white race has ever suffered through his crimes.
Author:
Ida Wells
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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.
Author:
Ida Wells
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Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.
Author:
H. Wells
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Make it a crime to harm a fetus during another crime.
Author:
Jerry Weller
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There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.
Author:
Simone Weil
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All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible.
Author:
Noah Webster
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Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
Author:
Evelyn Waugh
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My great crime in the world is blunder I will get into scrapes without intention or any bad motive.
Author:
Stand Watie
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There is no requirement that police stop a person who enters a police station and states that he wishes to confess a crime or a person who calls the police to offer a confession because volunteered statements of any kind are not barred by the 5th Amendment.
Author:
Earl Warren
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To tell an ally - who is shedding blood next to you - that you can't share information is a crime.
Author:
David Warner
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I can not, therefore, see how this can be imputed as a crime, or how any of the king's ministers can be blamed for his doing what the public has no concern in; for if the public be well and faithfully served it has no business to ask by whom.
Author:
Robert Walpole
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But I must think that an address to his majesty to remove one of his servants, without so much as alleging any particular crime against him, is one of the greatest encroachments that was ever made upon the prerogatives of the crown.
Author:
Robert Walpole
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Dropping those atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a war crime.
Author:
George Wald
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We cannot lightly allow the perpetrator of a serious crime to go free simply because that person believed his actions were reasonable and necessary to prevent some perceived harm.
Author:
Sol Wachtler
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Fear follows crime and is its punishment.
Author:
Voltaire
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Crime, money, power, drugs - are all linked.
Author:
Matthew Vaughn
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I said the kidnapping is a crime. I have the right to speak about the crime done against me. They didn't like me to speak about this crime. So I decided to reveal it to the public.
Author:
Mordechai Vanunu
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If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down.
Author:
Jack Valenti
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People should be allowed to document evidence of criminal wrongdoing. Where is the expectation of privacy if someone is conspiring to commit crime?
Author:
Linda Tripp
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Where is the expectation of privacy in the commission of a crime?
Author:
Linda Tripp
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Crime is only the worst example, but it is a paradigm for other Labour policy disasters. No one tells the voters that crime is falling: let them stay scared senseless.
Author:
Polly Toynbee
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Unauthorized access to computer systems is already a serious crime in a few states and is currently being addressed in many more state legislatures as well as Congress.
Author:
Ken Thompson
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In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.
Author:
Hunter Thompson
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Maybe... there is a perfectly reasonable explanation for unlawfully detaining 120 people. Maybe they just got carried away with last year's idea of pre-emptive strikes and thought, 'Let's not wait for an actual crime to occur. Let's get the innocent.
Author:
Mark Thomas
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When you look at where the real problems are among minorities in our society, particularly blacks, it's at the bottom. It's the people who are in school systems that don't educate, neighborhoods where there is a lot of crime, drugs, the whole bit.
Author:
Clarence Thomas
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Countries and states which have capital punishment have a much higher rate of murder and crime than countries that do not, so that makes sense to me, and the moral question - I struggle with it morally.
Author:
Charlize Theron
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Murder is not the crime of criminals, but that of law-abiding citizens.
Author:
Emmanuel Teney
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What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is the last resort of political half-wits.
Author:
Charles Talleyrand
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A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.
Author:
Tacitus
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The criminal law needs to be improved to meet new forms of crime, but to denounce financial devices which are useful and legitimate because use is made of them for fraud, is ridiculous and unworthy of the age in which we live.
Author:
William Sumner
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There are criminals who are drug users, but most addicts are criminals only by virtue of prohibition or from resorting to crime to pay inflated black market prices.
Author:
Danny Sugerman
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In a colony constituted like that of New South Wales, the proportion of crime must of course be great.
Author:
Charles Sturt
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Our findings with reference to organized crime was that organized crime as an entity didn't participate in the assassination of the president. However, we were unable to preclude the possibility of individual members of organized crime having participated.
Author:
Louis Stokes
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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.
Author:
Louis Stokes
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The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual crime.
Author:
Max Stirner
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Since 1994, unemployment rates are lower. Median household income is higher. A greater percentage of Americans are graduating from college. Home ownership rates are higher. And the violent crime rate has decreased.
Author:
Cliff Stearns
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But in my district I have heard from law enforcement officials and across the State of Florida about how much this JAG funding helps them fight crime, and to protect and serve the citizens within their jurisdiction.
Author:
Cliff Stearns
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With no other security forces on hand, U.S. military was left to confront, almost alone, an Iraqi insurgency and a crime rate that grew worse throughout the year, waged in part by soldiers of the disbanded army and in part by criminals who were released from prison.
Author:
John Spratt
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Naturally, it is a terrible, despicable crime when, as in Munich, people are taken hostage, people are killed. But probing the motives of those responsible and showing that they are also individuals with families and have their own story does not excuse what they did.
Author:
Steven Spielberg
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But what sin is to the moralist and crime to the jurist so to the scientific man is ignorance.
Author:
Frederick Soddy
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Violent crime is a solved problem - all they have to do is repeal the laws that keep those intelligent, capable, and responsible men and women from arming themselves, and violent crime evaporates like dry ice on a hot summer day.
Author:
L. Smith
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The seasons come up undisturbed by crime and war.
Author:
George Smith
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Homosexuality in Russia is a crime and the punishment is seven years in prison, locked up with the other men. There is a three year waiting list.
Author:
Yakov Smirnoff
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I've been very clear. I won. I didn't commit the crime.
Author:
O. Simpson
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The original PATRIOT Act greatly increased our nation's ability to share intelligence information, made better use of technology, and provided terrorism investigators tools that have long been available in cases involving illegal drugs and organized crime.
Author:
Michael Simpson
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Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder.
Author:
Percy Shelley
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Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
Author:
George Shaw
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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.
Author:
Tupac Shakur
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Is it a crime, to fight, for what is mine?
Author:
Tupac Shakur
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Under current law, there is no additional penalty for someone who enters the United States illegally and then commits either a crime of violence or a drug trafficking offense. They simply come under the same penalty as we have in current law.
Author:
John Shadegg
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People must realize that a crime motivated by racial or ethnic prejudice against one group is a crime against all of us.
Author:
Jose Serrano
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Today it is becoming harder to speak out, with the inception of the Patriot Act, the president has legislated free speech to be a crime.
Author:
Frank Serpico
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He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.
Author:
Lucius Seneca
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He has committed the crime who profits by it.
Author:
Lucius Seneca
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Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.
Author:
Lucius Seneca
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One crime has to be concealed by another.
Author:
Lucius Seneca
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Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.
Author:
Lucius Seneca
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Crime is actually less in places where people own guns. Washington, D.C., is a case in point. It has the strictest gun laws, but who has the highest crime rate in the country? Washington, D.C.
Author:
Luke Scott
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The death penalty is discriminatory and does not do anything about crime.
Author:
Bobby Scott
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Giving a 10-year mandatory minimum for a second offense fist fight is not going to reduce the chance that someone will be stabbed 16 times when you are not funding any of the programs that are desperately needed to actually reduce juvenile crime.
Author:
Bobby Scott
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We can play politics, or we can reduce crime.
Author:
Bobby Scott
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I was concerned about the link between crime and politics, and I figured out the only way I could do something about it was to get into politics.
Author:
Bill Scott
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I hadn't realized until I covered the police beat just how seedy crime is.
Author:
Jessica Savitch
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Popularity is a crime from the moment it is sought; it is only a virtue where men have it whether they will or no.
Author:
George Savile
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To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.
Author:
George Santayana
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I would feel horrible to think I had put my name on a pistol permit and allowed someone to carry around a gun and they committed another crime.
Author:
Mike Rutherford
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Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.
Author:
John Ruskin
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The biological factors underlying race differences in sports have consequences for educational achievement, crime and sexual behavior.
Author:
J. Rushton
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The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly.
Author:
Theodore Roosevelt
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We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business?
Author:
Will Rogers
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Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.
Author:
Will Rogers
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It was the king's army, the king's people, the king's taxes; and he who questioned the propriety of the royal prerogative of taking from his people without return or accounting, was reckoned, and felt himself to be, a criminal, guilty of the highest crime of disloyalty.
Author:
John Robinson
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Crime butchers innocence to secure a throne, and innocence struggles with all its might against the attempts of crime.
Author:
Maximilien Robespierre
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Atheism is aristocratic; the idea of a great Being that watches over oppressed innocence and punishes triumphant crime is altogether popular.
Author:
Maximilien Robespierre
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If it is committed in the name of God or country, there is no crime so heinous that the public will not forgive it.
Author:
Tom Robbins
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My earnest hope is that what we started in terms of building partnerships with communities across America will continue, that we will continue our efforts to reduce crime and violence.
Author:
Janet Reno
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Every single person in jail for a violent crime had a nightmare childhood.
Author:
Rob Reiner
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One way to make sure crime doesn't pay would be to let the government run it.
Author:
Ronald Reagan
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To the mind, God is a perfect criminal. He has done such a perfect crime by creating this world that mind cannot trace how He did it. That is why the mind always freaks out about God.
Author:
Prem Rawat
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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.
Author:
Charles Rangel
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Regardless of the nature of their crime or any rehabilitation that may have occurred, these ex-felons cannot participate in the decision-making process of this great Nation.
Author:
Charles Rangel
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And it's a crime because the great plays of history, going all the way back to the Greeks, are part of everybody's heritage. It's just like in music, Beethoven or Mozart, that's everybody's heritage.
Author:
Tony Randall
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The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.
Author:
Ayn Rand
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In my home State of Minnesota, I have seen firsthand the importance of Byrne grants to local police in reducing crime and drugs and improving public safety.
Author:
Jim Ramstad
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Ken Lay has, does and will continue to accept responsibility for the fall of Enron. He was the man at the controls. But failure is not a crime.
Author:
Michael Ramsey
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Growing old's like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.
Author:
Anthony Powell
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Srebrenica was a horrendous war crime and it had to be uncovered.
Author:
John Pomfret
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A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime.
Author:
Edgar Poe
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A friend to honesty and a foe to crime.
Author:
Allan Pinkerton
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To make crime unprofitable, let the government run it.
Author:
Irene Peter
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I was long brought up to think that it was nothing short of a crime to miss a sale.
Author:
James Penney
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You wanna get rid of drug crime in this country? Fine, let's just get rid of all the drug laws.
Author:
Ron Paul
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I come from New York originally, but Californians have been wonderful about animals. These animals are so nice and so good and so sweet and intelligent. It's a crime not to help them.
Author:
Dick Patten
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Sisters in Crime now has more than 4,000 members worldwide.
Author:
Sara Paretsky
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The crime novel has always been my favourite genre.
Author:
Sara Paretsky
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White-collar crime gets more outrageous by the second in America.
Author:
Sara Paretsky
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The penalty may be removed, the crime is eternal.
Author:
Ovid
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Examples one finds in the philosophical literature are somebody who's seen the trial of a child of theirs, where they're being proved guilty of some crime that would drive the parent into a depression, maybe a suicidal depression.
Author:
Robert Nozick
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If a war be undertaken... before the resources of peace have been tried and proved vain to secure it, that war has no defense, it is a national crime.
Author:
Charles Norton
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If you commit a big crime then you are crazy, and the more heinous the crime the crazier you must be. Therefore you are not responsible, and nothing is your fault.
Author:
Peggy Noonan
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Crime does not pay as well as politics.
Author:
Alfred Newman
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But from each crime are born bullets that will one day seek out in you where the heart lies.
Author:
Pablo Neruda
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But, you know, there's still an argument, there's still ten states that outlaw premarital sex, and many more states where adultery is still outlawed and a crime.
Author:
Liam Neeson
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Addiction should never be treated as a crime. It has to be treated as a health problem. We do not send alcoholics to jail in this country. Over 500,000 people are in our jails who are nonviolent drug users.
Author:
Ralph Nader
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My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
Author:
Vladimir Nabokov
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The accomplice to the crime of corruption is frequently our own indifference.
Author:
Bess Myerson
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There is only one evil, one crime, one sin: lack of heart.
Author:
Multatuli
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In the last 10 years, in narcotics task forces, in a number of violent crime task forces, we've worked very closely together with state and local law enforcement.
Author:
Robert Mueller
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Crime is an overhead you have to pay if you want to live in the city.
Author:
George Moscone
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Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.
Author:
John Morley
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Violent crime rates fell steadily from 1993 to 2002, and this nearly coincides with the establishment of the community policing program known as the COPS program under the Clinton administration.
Author:
Alan Mollohan
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We are afraid to face the hard questions. We are willing to tackle drugs, crime, and public education only if it doesn't cost us any new taxes.
Author:
J. Miller
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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.
Author:
Henry Miller
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I didn't break into comics to write fairytales or crime comics.
Author:
Mark Millar
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In the 1990s, we introduced Boston's community policing strategy. We reversed the tide of violent crime that threatened our city, and we established a national model for preventing and fighting crime.
Author:
Thomas Menino
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We must be vigilant in our actions towards criminals, and innovative in our approach towards solving crime.
Author:
Thomas Menino
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The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
Author:
H. Mencken
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The whole duty of government is to prevent crime and to preserve contracts.
Author:
Lord Melbourne
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Let's stop pretending we can arrest our way to safety and security. Despite all the fine work that policemen and women do, we have got to find other solutions to deter crime.
Author:
Carrie Meek
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If we were really tough on crime, we'd do more to stop it from happening in the first place.
Author:
Carrie Meek
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Just about every year, Congress passes another crime bill - spending billions of dollars to build more prisons, to place more band-aids on society's scars.
Author:
Carrie Meek
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We've got to stop focusing solely on the symptoms of crime, and start caring about the causes as well.
Author:
Carrie Meek
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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.
Author:
Marty Meehan
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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.
Author:
Thomas Meagher
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Judged by the law of England, I know this crime entails upon me the penalty of death; but the history of Ireland explains that crime and justifies it.
Author:
Thomas Meagher
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The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime.
Author:
Mignon McLaughlin
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The head never rules the heart but just becomes its partner in crime.
Author:
Michael McLaughlin
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The United States and Mexico are trapped - economically, culturally, politically and because of drug crime - in the same continent.
Author:
Barry McCaffrey
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Our party's committed to tackling failing schools and cutting crime.
Author:
Francis Maude
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Had we but world enough, and time, this coyness, lady, were no crime.
Author:
Andrew Marvell
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Continuous persecution of widows and orphans is a crime. Even the Bible says there is a specific place in hell for those who oppress widows.
Author:
Imelda Marcos
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False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing.
Author:
Joseph Maistre
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Until the year 1967, it was a crime, for which you could be put in prison, to make homosexual love to someone in your own house. If they came in and caught you at it, you could be put into prison. This has changed - I'm talking about England, incidentally.
Author:
Patrick Macnee
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So, if falling crime rates coincide with the rise of violent video games and increasing violence on TV and at the cinema, should we conclude that media violence is causing the drop in crime rates?
Author:
Hugh Mackay
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Once I've done a crime, I just forget it. I go from crime to crime.
Author:
Henry Lucas
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Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.
Author:
James Lowell
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Not failure, but low aim, is crime.
Author:
James Lowell
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Bunch together a group of people deliberately chosen for strong religious feelings, and you have a practical guarantee of dark morbidities expressed in crime, perversion, and insanity.
Author:
H. Lovecraft
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I'm the hardest working person I know. I'm 20 years old - is it a crime to want to go out dancing with my friends?
Author:
Lindsay Lohan
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Kickback is a police thriller which I wrote. I'm very proud of it. I did it in two parts for France because when I wrote it, there wasn't the audience demand for crime stuff that there is now.
Author:
David Lloyd
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No crime can ever be defended on rational grounds.
Author:
Titus Livius
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By this act the president alone is empowered to make the law, to fix in his mind what acts, words, what thoughts or looks, shall constitute such a crime.
Author:
Edward Livingston
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Stopping crime before it occurs is the most effective crime fighting tool of all.
Author:
Blanche Lincoln
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I believe that the fight against crime starts in the home. Parents must take responsibility for their children and show them love and guidance from an early age so they learn to respect the rights of others.
Author:
Blanche Lincoln
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If you commit a crime, you're guilty.
Author:
Rush Limbaugh
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Poverty is not the root cause of crime.
Author:
Rush Limbaugh
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There's a simple way to solve the crime problem: obey the law; punish those who do not.
Author:
Rush Limbaugh
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Obviously crime pays, or there'd be no crime.
Author:
G. Liddy
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Identity theft involving these cards is a growing form of white collar crime, facilitating illegal immigration, banking and accounting fraud, tax evasion, and other nefarious activities.
Author:
Ron Lewis
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The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolute truth, but only man's frail and human effort to approach the truth. To reject the word is to reject the human search.
Author:
Max Lerner
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The Washington Bullets are changing their name. They don't want their team to be associated with crime. From now on, they'll just be known as the Bullets.
Author:
Jay Leno
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The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.
Author:
Jay Leno
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Crime is a product of social excess.
Author:
Vladimir Lenin
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The left sees nothing but bigotry and superstition in the popular defense of the family or in popular attitudes regarding abortion, crime, busing, and the school curriculum.
Author:
Christopher Lasch
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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.
Author:
Steig Larsson
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Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.
Author:
Imre Lakatos
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Have not prisons - which kill all will and force of character in man, which enclose within their walls more vices than are met with on any other spot of the globe - always been universities of crime?
Author:
Peter Kropotkin
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Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear.
Author:
Karl Kraus
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People have told me about organized crime in the fashion industry, but I can't talk about that. I'm looking to stay alive.
Author:
Calvin Klein
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Poverty is like punishment for a crime you didn't commit.
Author:
Eli Khamarov
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First of all, do any of you here think it's a crime to help a suffering human end his agony? Any of you think it is? Say so right now. Well, then, what are we doing here?
Author:
Jack Kevorkian
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The consequences of a crime should not be out of proportion to the crime itself.
Author:
John Kerry
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If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.
Author:
Jack Kerouac
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Killing someone is the ultimate crime, while on the other hand, killing someone in uniform is fulfillment of duty.
Author:
Ramman Kenoun
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I rise today in strong support of the Children's Safety and Violent Crime Reduction Act, because it is a commonsense way to protect our schoolchildren from pedophiles.
Author:
Ric Keller
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Consideration of any kind are a crime against the German people and the soldier at the front.
Author:
Wilhelm Keitel
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In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.
Author:
Abdul Kalam
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Rather let the crime of the guilty go unpunished than condemn the innocent.
Author:
Justinian Justinian I
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We got into all the trouble you could ever imagine. We figured that if the Jones boys and all the gangsters ran Chicago, we had our own territory now. All the stores, all the crime, we were in charge of everything, my stepbrother and my brother.
Author:
Quincy Jones
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It takes a long, hard effort and sustained determination to reduce crime. We will stay the course and we are confident that the numbers will continue to go down.
Author:
Jack Johnson
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This country would be a better place to live in if all the resources we currently put toward criminalizing marijuana were instead spent by law enforcement on protection from real crime, as opposed to victimless crime.
Author:
Gary Johnson
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We are victims of evil customs. It is a crime against humanity that our women are shut up within the four walls of the houses as prisoners. There is no sanction anywhere for the deplorable condition in which our women have to live.
Author:
Muhammad Jinnah
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It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No; if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It is a blunder, though, and is punished as such. A poor man is despised the whole world over.
Author:
Jerome
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We are not supposed to go out and kill all those we suspect to have committed a crime.
Author:
Bianca Jagger
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Dr. Flint had sworn that he would make me suffer, to my last day, for this new crime against him, as he called it; and as long as he had me in his power he kept his word.
Author:
Harriet Jacobs
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It's very simple. If the American people care about a lot of things including corruption in government, then, in fact, if you use the power to appoint in order to do political business, to clear fields, to save your party money and so on, if it's not a crime - and I believe it is - it certainly is business as usual, politics of corruption.
Author:
Darrell Issa
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Every portal coming into this country is being attacked by those who would harvest information, both national security secrets and just the common information of private individuals and private individuals. That crime is going on, every day, on a single entity known as the Internet.
Author:
Darrell Issa
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I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought to be dangerous - if they aver that doubt is a crime, then I attack them one and all, because they enslave the minds of men.
Author:
Robert Ingersoll
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The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box.
Author:
Thomas Huxley
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After all, crime is only a left-handed form of human endeavor.
Author:
John Huston
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It seemed to me... that the only valid people to deal with crime were cops, and I would like to make the lead character, rather than a single person, a squad of cops.
Author:
Evan Hunter
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One way to bring down crime in the state of California and every state in the union is to have an enforceable border. That means let's build that border fence. When people want to come into this country, let's ask them to knock on the front door.
Author:
Duncan Hunter
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We improved the environment in which our children live, learn and play by decreasing crime and clamping down on abuse and violence in the home and on the streets.
Author:
Jane Hull
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Physical nature lies at our feet shackled with a hundred chains. What of the control of human nature? Do not point to the triumphs of psychiatry, social services or the war against crime. Domination of human nature can only mean the domination of every man by himself.
Author:
Johan Huizinga
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Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.
Author:
Victor Hugo
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Despotism is a long crime.
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Victor Hugo
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War should be made a crime, and those who instigate it should be punished as criminals.
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Charles Hughes
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I finally faced the fact that it isn't a crime not having friends. Being alone means you have fewer problems.
Author:
Whitney Houston
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We are often deterred from crime by the disgrace of others.
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Horace
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Bigamy is the only crime where two rites make a wrong.
Author:
Bob Hope
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The cure for crime is not the electric chair, but the high chair.
Author:
J. Hoover
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In fact, if you have a crime committed against you, and you go to have hypnosis, you can't testify. Because there's no way to test what is real, what's fact, what's fantasy.
Author:
Betty Hill
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Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.
Author:
Ernest Hemingway
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I finally figured out what my crime was. I lived. Big mistake.
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Patty Hearst
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And for any victim of a violent crime, when you actually get to go in and realize and see their faces and know that they can't hurt you any more, there is no feeling like that. It finally frees you from a lot of demons.
Author:
Patty Hearst
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There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.
Author:
William Hazlitt
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Nearly 60 years ago, the international community made a commitment to put an end to the crime of genocide by ratifying the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.
Author:
Alcee Hastings
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You know that murder is wicked. If you saw your master kill a man, do you suppose this would be any excuse for you, if you should commit the same crime?
Author:
Jupiter Hammon
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I cannot imagine a context that would some day, in some manner, make the monstrous crime of September 11 an understandable or comprehensible political act.
Author:
Jurgen Habermas
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The difference between political terror and ordinary crime becomes clear during the change of regimes, in which former terrorists become well-regarded representatives of their country.
Author:
Jurgen Habermas
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The last copy of the Chicago Daily News I picked up had three crime stories on its front page. But by comparison to the gaudy days, this is small-time stuff. Chicago is as full of crooks as a saw with teeth, but the era when they ruled the city is gone forever.
Author:
John Gunther
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Some of the best movies made about crime are those where the crime solver can get inside the head of the serial killer, and those are the techniques we use in C.S.I.
Author:
Paul Guilfoyle
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In the deregulated realm of US banking and finance, crime does occasionally pay for its foul deeds, not in prison time but by making modest rebates to the victims.
Author:
William Greider
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The fact that New York continues in the face of all of the chaos, of the crime, of the madness, you just think that it would just pop and vanish, just explode.
Author:
Spalding Gray
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At that point, I sat down and made an alphabetical list of all the crime related words I could think of. So here I am now, nearly half-way through, probably tied up until the year 2015 or SO.
Author:
Sue Grafton
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The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.
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Samuel Gompers
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Crime is naught but misdirected energy.
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Emma Goldman
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I will never have a drink and get behind the wheel of a car. It's not illegal to drink and drive, but there becomes a certain point where it does become a crime.
Author:
Tracey Gold
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It's about time law enforcement got as organized as organized crime.
Author:
Rudy Giuliani
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There is no city in America that has reduced crime as much as we have in the last three years. This is not the product of accident. This is the product of design.
Author:
Rudy Giuliani
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Our people went out every single night trying to stop crime before it happened, trying to take people off the street that they believed were involved in crime. That made us a very aggressive, proactive police department.
Author:
Daryl Gates
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I think it's too bad that everybody's decided to turn on drugs, I don't think drugs are the problem. Crime is the problem. Cops are the problem. Money's the problem. But drugs are just drugs.
Author:
Jerry Garcia
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No game in the world is as tidy and dramatically neat as baseball, with cause and effect, crime and punishment, motive and result, so cleanly defined.
Author:
Paul Gallico
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Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.
Author:
Elizabeth Fry
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I think crime writing is my link with trying to preserve a sort of order.
Author:
Antonia Fraser
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A large part of crime is economics - if people are working and and have a home and family to support, then I believe you can reduce the crime rate.
Author:
Vincent Frank
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We must put together countries that produce drugs, countries that traffic, and countries that consume, and through this multilateral effort really stop the growing of crime.
Author:
Vicente Fox
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Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.
Author:
Henry Ford
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When you have a crime against humanity that is so awesome in scale and death, it is more than permissible to look around and say, who recently has been declaring war on the United States? Of course, the compass points straight to bin Laden.
Author:
Robert Fisk
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There is no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.
Author:
George Farquhar
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There's no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.
Author:
George Farquhar
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He who allows oppression shares the crime.
Author:
Desiderius Erasmus
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To open his lips is crime in a plain citizen.
Author:
Quintus Ennius
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Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.
Author:
Friedrich Engels
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There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.
Author:
Ralph Emerson
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Anybody who doesn't know that politics is crime has got a few screws loose.
Author:
James Ellroy
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I love thinking about American history, thinking about LA history. I love brooding on crime.
Author:
James Ellroy
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As much as I transferred my mother to Elizabeth Shore of The Black Dahlia, as much as her dad mutated into an obsession with crime in general, well, I have thought about other things throughout the years.
Author:
James Ellroy
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I'm sort of fascinated by the whole espionage crime thing.
Author:
Aaron Eckhart
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I wanted to show that crime doesn't pay. If you are saved and accept the Lord, you cannot use that as an excuse to avoid punishment.
Author:
Robert Duvall
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American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc.
Author:
Katherine Dunn
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I'm going to be 58, and I'm a woman. In this business, that seems to be a bigger crime than being mentally ill.
Author:
Patty Duke
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The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.
Author:
Arthur Doyle
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I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
Author:
David Dinkins
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Failure is not a crime. The crime is not trying.
Author:
Ron Dellums
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Of course, I write crime stories, and I have to describe violence and the aftermath of violence.
Author:
Jeffery Deaver
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It means working harder to do the research but I don't really mind - I don't think I have what it takes to chase criminals through back alleys and wade through blood at crime scenes.
Author:
Jeffery Deaver
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Crime, to the man of the forties, was an alien monstrous terror.
Author:
Rebecca Davis
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Well for one, the 13th amendment to the constitution of the US which abolished slavery - did not abolish slavery for those convicted of a crime.
Author:
Angela Davis
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Base stealing, like crime in general, is increasing and is also getting more difficult to curb.
Author:
Leonard Davids
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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.
Author:
Christopher Darden
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Dullness is the only crime for which an editor ought to be hung.
Author:
Josephus Daniels
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We weren't wealthy but we definitely weren't poor. We were incredibly rich because there was a wonderful community in Shepherd's Bush, where I grew up. All my friends were into villainy and crime.
Author:
Roger Daltrey
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I am not sorry for my crime.
Author:
Leon Czolgosz
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By providing students in our Nation with such an education, we help save our children from the clutches of poverty, crime, drugs, and hopelessness, and we help safeguard our Nation's prosperity for generations yet unborn.
Author:
Elijah Cummings
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Popular culture tells you that schools and parents don't know what's going on, the police are dogs, politicians are all liars and scum, and any crime that's not committed by the Mafia is done by the CIA.
Author:
Stanley Crouch
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To let politics become a cesspool, and then avoid it because it is a cesspool, is a double crime.
Author:
Howard Crosby
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Over the years you encounter just about every kind of crime. It doesn't harden you, but you become capable of reporting on just about anything human beings can do. However, any time we're dealing with the murder of a child it is always difficult.
Author:
Catherine Crier
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The greatest crime in a Shakespeare play is to murder the king.
Author:
Alex Cox
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The Crime Victims Fund is distributed to service providers who assist millions of crime victims annually throughout our communities in a host of ways. It is paid for by fines levied on criminals, not taxpayers.
Author:
Jim Costa
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The judge said I was a menace to society because I had put crime on a scientific basis.
Author:
Gregory Corso
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It is a crime against the State to be powerful enough to commit one.
Author:
Pierre Corneille
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A first impulse was never a crime.
Author:
Pierre Corneille
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It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace.
Author:
Pierre Corneille
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The crime and not the scaffold makes the shame.
Author:
Pierre Corneille
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If you are going to break a Law of Art, make the crime interesting.
Author:
Mason Cooley
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Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium.
Author:
Cyril Connolly
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Success in crime always invites to worse deeds.
Author:
Edward Coke
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I am looking forward to a series of productive meetings in both Austria and Estonia, particularly what role organized crime plays in the Baltic drug trade.
Author:
Howard Coble
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The worst crime is faking it.
Author:
Kurt Cobain
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I don't think Capote loved Smith. But he did make a deep connection. It upset some people, because that had never been the approach to journalistic crime writing, to look into the mind of the killer.
Author:
Gerald Clarke
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A defendant on trial for a specific crime is entitled to his day in court, not in a stadium or a city or nationwide arena.
Author:
Tom Clark
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The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy.
Author:
Ramsey Clark
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Crime in full glory consolidates authority by the sacred fear it inspires.
Author:
Emile Cioran
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If, at the limit, you can rule without crime, you cannot do so without injustices.
Author:
Emile Cioran
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Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent.
Author:
Marcus Cicero
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No crime is so great as daring to excel.
Author:
Winston Churchill
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The danger chiefly lies in acting well; no crime's so great as daring to excel.
Author:
Charles Churchill
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Environmental degradation, overpopulation, refugees, narcotics, terrorism, world crime movements, and organized crime are worldwide problems that don't stop at a nation's borders.
Author:
Warren Christopher
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Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions.
Author:
Agatha Christie
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Ugly. Is irrelevant. It is an immeasurable insult to a woman, and then supposedly the worst crime you can commit as a woman. But ugly, as beautiful, is an illusion.
Author:
Margaret Cho
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Organized crime is the dirty side of the sharp dollar.
Author:
James Chiles
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The rise of computer crime and armed robbery has not eliminated the lure of caged cash.
Author:
James Chiles
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The crime of loving is forgetting.
Author:
Maurice Chevalier
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As the bull market goes on, people who take great risks achieve great rewards, seemingly without punishment. It's like crime without punishment or sex without sin.
Author:
Ron Chernow
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Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.
Author:
Pierre Chardin
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Not that I am ashamed of my mind or body, my birth or breeding, my actions or fortunes, for my bashfulness is in my nature, not for any crime.
Author:
Margaret Cavendish
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About 25 years ago, I started out as a reporter covering politics. And that sort of just evolved into organized crime, because organized crime and politics were the same thing in Boston.
Author:
Howie Carr
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For the past seven years we have been cracking down on crime in Missouri, passing tougher laws for drug crimes and sex offenses and requiring prisoners to serve more time.
Author:
Mel Carnahan
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Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?
Author:
George Carlin
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Liquor prohibition led to the rise of organized crime in America, and drug prohibition has led to the rise of the gang problems we have now.
Author:
Drew Carey
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For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.
Author:
Albert Camus
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The Child Custody Protection Act makes it a federal crime to transport a minor across state lines for the purpose of obtaining an abortion.
Author:
Ken Calvert
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In the housing projects, people talked of ways to reduce crime, relieve overcrowding, and they were good ideas that we plan to study, and possibly implement.
Author:
Jane Byrne
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I think seeing some of the past can be helpful, especially if you're into crime solving.
Author:
Yancy Butler
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Poverty may be the mother of crime, but lack of good sense is the father.
Author:
Jean Bruyere
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The EU and the U.S. often work together to develop international standards. This is the case in fighting terrorism and transnational crime, advancing trade liberalization, and combating piracy and intellectual property violations.
Author:
John Bruton
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Fighting a war on terrorism is like fighting against crime. We can never hope to eradicate crime, so we shouldn't bother fighting it.
Author:
Craig Bruce
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What does signature mean? Supposedly these are the added touches that make the crime personal to the killer.
Author:
Pat Brown
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The punishment should fit the crime and if a doctor or drug company does harm knowingly or negligently to a patient they should be compensated to make them whole.
Author:
Corrine Brown
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It's not a crime to get drunk.
Author:
Joe Briggs
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It doesn't help to fight crime to put people in prison who are innocent.
Author:
Stephen Breyer
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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.
Author:
Andre Braugher
