Quotes 161 till 180 of 254.
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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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That's what an army is - a mob; they don't fight with courage that's born in them, but with courage that's borrowed from their mass, and from their officers.
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The accomplice to the crime of corruption is frequently our own indifference.
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The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition... always new books, new programs, new films, news items, but always the same meaning.
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The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The mass of mankind understand it, and they hardly anywhere in the world understand any other.
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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 bosses of our mass media, press, radio, film and television, succeed in their aim of taking our minds off disaster. Thus, the distraction they offer demands the antidote of maximum concentration on disaster.
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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 cacao content is a wrapper's most important datum, and the acceptable benchmark is seventy per cent. The figure is a measure of 'cocoa mass.'
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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 English public, as a mass, takes no interest in a work of art until it is told that the work in question is immoral.
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The essence of a quote is the compression of a mass of thought and observation into a single saying.
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The goal of mass transit is to convince people to abandon their cars, which feature such enticing accessories as CD players and elbow room.
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