Quotes 101 till 120 of 150.
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Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear.
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Starvation, and not sin, is the parent of modern crime.
The Soul of Man under Socialism (1891) -
Stopping crime before it occurs is the most effective crime fighting tool of all.
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Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit.
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Televisions and radios are locked on government frequencies - it is a serious crime to listen to a foreign broadcast. As a result, North Koreans think that they live in the best country in the world and that, as difficult as their lives may be, everybody else has it much worse.
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The accomplice to the crime of corruption is frequently our own indifference.
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The book that convinced me I wanted to be a writer was 'Crime and Punishment'. I put the thing down after reading it in a fever over two or three days... I said, 'If this is what a book can be, then that is what I want to do.
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The business of popularizing crime is how we expose the faults in our justice system. It's how we expose police misconduct.
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The causes of crime are very complicated. But there is a very big literature, as you know, about single parenthood in crime, about race in crime, and about poverty in crime.
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The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
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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.
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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.
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The greatest crime in a Shakespeare play is to murder the king.
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The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime.
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981) -
The Manhattan district attorney has closed the well-publicized investigation of the handling of the $300 million fortune of reclusive heiress Huguette Clark - without charging anyone with a crime.
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The message has to be sent that if you commit a crime there has to be punishment.
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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.
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The pace of Swedish crime fiction is slower - Stieg Larsson's the exception. And I think we use the environment more.
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