Quotes and Sayings About Crime
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I'm sort of fascinated by the whole espionage crime thing.
-- Aaron Eckhart -
How accurately can the law fix the crime? There has to be a mechanism for very fast action. The law is like this: catch them and punish them.
-- Abdul Kalam -
The well understood equity as well as interest of society demand that we work on much more to prevent crime and offenses than to punish them.
-- African SpirSource : "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 52), 1937.
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The attacks inside Israel are operations we carry out in response to Israeli crimes against our people.
-- Ahmed Yassin -
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Nothing is more devastating to a community than out-of-control crime.
-- Alan AutrySource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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We all carry within us places of exile, our crimes, our ravages. Our task is not to unleash them on the world; it is to transform them in ourselves and others.
-- Albert Camus -
Crime too is a form of solitude, even if one thousand get together to commit it. And it is right for me to die alone, after having lived and killed alone.
-- Albert Camus -
... habit starts at the second crime. At the first one, something is ending.
-- Albert Camus -
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When one has no character, one HAS to apply a method. Here it did wonders incontrovertibly, and I am living on the site of one of the greatest crimes in human history.
-- Albert Camus -
As Dr. Sigmund Freud has observed, it cannot even be said that the State has ever shown any disposition to suppress crime, but only to safeguard its own monopoly of crime.
-- Albert J. Nock -
Apostasy from Islam is a crime and is punishable by death.
-- Ali Gomaa -
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We enact many laws that manufacture criminals, and then a few that punish them.
-- Allen Tucker -
Do not make your current partner pay for the crimes and misdemeanors of your previous partners.
-- Amy Dickinson -
I always feel that crime films are about capitalism,
-- Andrew DominikSource : "Cannes 2012: Brad Pitt Says His New Crime Film Isn't an Attack on Obama" by Gregg Kilday, www.hollywoodreporter.com. May 22, 2012.
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The crime film is the most honest American film.
-- Andrew DominikSource : "Cannes 2012: Brad Pitt Says His New Crime Film Isn't an Attack on Obama" by Gregg Kilday, www.hollywoodreporter.com. May 22, 2012.
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Had we but world enough, and time, this coyness, lady, were no crime.
-- Andrew MarvellSource : 'To His coy Mistress' (1681) l. 1
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It stands to reason that unloved and unwanted children are going to get into crime.
-- Andrew Young -
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.
-- Angela Davis -
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Taking the life of another is always a moral crime.
-- Angelo Scola -
It is worse than a crime, it is a blunder.
-- Antoine Jacques Claude Joseph, comte Boulay de la MeurtheSource : "Memorias de Fouche" by Joseph Fouché, 1824.
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Alcoholism plus criminality plus whatever caused both in the first place form a combination that is very nearly happy-ending-proof.
-- Ariana Franklin -
Every rascal is not a thief, but every thief is a rascal.
-- Aristotle -
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The greatest crimes are caused by surfeit, not by want.
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Ex-Professor Moriarty of mathematical celebrity... is the Napoleon of crime, Watson.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle -
The larger crimes are apt to be the simpler, for the bigger the crime, the more obvious, as a rule, is the motive.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle -
The stage lost a fine actor, even as science lost an acute reasoner, when [Holmes] became a specialist in crime.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle -
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The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more difficult it is to bring it home.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle -
Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should dwell.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle