"A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all."

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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."

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"Some people just needed to be stolen from."

Eoin Colfer, Irish Author

Crime, Justice, Theft, Irony, Humor

"I guess having one hundred and four condoms full of heroin in your guts and the thought of a firing squad in your head make will make most things seem insignificant."

S. A. Tawks, British Author

Crime, Fear, Mortality, Perspective

"The doctor seemed especially troubled by the fact of the robbery having been unexpected, and attempted in the night-time; as if it were the established custom of gentlemen in the housebreaking way to transact business at noon, and to make an appointment, by the twopenny post, a day or two previous."

Charles Dickens, English Novelist

Crime, Surprise, Danger, Night

"Have you killed a man, drowned a crocodile, hunted a wolf, or raped an abuser? Stop pretending you love someone."

M.F. Moonzajer, Afghan Author

Crime, Violence, Hypocrisy, Love

"The pleasant fact is that the British are not much good at violent crime except in fiction, which is of course as it should be."

Bill Bryson, American Writer

Crime, Culture, Irony, Fiction

"Once the screws left, most of the six or seven boys who had been overpowered by the SAS were not in any fit state to move, never mind talk. In May 1988 Malkie and Sammo and one other boy, whose name escapes me right now, got a total of twenty-seven years between them for mobbing and rioting and assault."

Stephen Richards, British Author

Crime, Revenge, Prison, Assault, Sentence

"They camped that night on the foreplain at the foot of a talus slope and the murder that had been reckoned upon took place."

Cormac McCarthy, American Writer

Crime, Murder, Darkness, Violence

"Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year and spends very little on office supplies."

Woody Allen, American Director

Crime, America, Office

"The screws are just as bad as us, maybe not now but certainly in the past they used to beat you with their riot batons, strip you naked, cuff your hands behind your backs and then take shots of kicking you in the head and body until you were knocked out."

Stephen Richards, British Author

Crime, Police, Violence, Abuse, Prison

"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."

Henry Miller, American Author

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"Some people just needed to be stolen from."

"I guess having one hundred and four condoms full of heroin in your guts and the thought of a firing squad in your head make will make most things seem insignificant."

"Have you killed a man, drowned a crocodile, hunted a wolf, or raped an abuser? Stop pretending you love someone."

"The pleasant fact is that the British are not much good at violent crime except in fiction, which is of course as it should be."

"They camped that night on the foreplain at the foot of a talus slope and the murder that had been reckoned upon took place."

"Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year and spends very little on office supplies."

"The screws are just as bad as us, maybe not now but certainly in the past they used to beat you with their riot batons, strip you naked, cuff your hands behind your backs and then take shots of kicking you in the head and body until you were knocked out."

"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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"It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure."

"He that fights and runs away, May turn and fight another day; But he that is in battle slain, Will never rise to fight again."

"Victor and vanquished never unite in substantial agreement."

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"The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise."

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"Prosperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure."

"A bad peace is even worse than war."

"Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor."