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Crime Quotes



"He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it."



"He has committed the crime who profits by it."



"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."


"Poverty is like punishment for a crime you didn't commit."


"Crime is an overhead you have to pay if you want to live in the city."


"If, at the limit, you can rule without crime, you cannot do so without injustices."


"The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual crime."



"There's a simple way to solve the crime problem: obey the law; punish those who do not."


"He who allows oppression shares the crime."


"Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal."


"We are not supposed to go out and kill all those we suspect to have committed a crime."


"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."


"In fact, street gangs are the primary distributor of illegal drugs in the United States."


"The cure for crime is not the electric chair, but the high chair."


"Once I've done a crime, I just forget it. I go from crime to crime."


"Murder is not the crime of criminals, but that of law-abiding citizens."


"Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent."


"Make it a crime to harm a fetus during another crime."


"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."


"I didn't break into comics to write fairytales or crime comics."


"Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression."



"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."


"It is a crime against the State to be powerful enough to commit one."


"He told us he was going to take crime out of the streets. He did. He took it into the damn White House."


"Powerful states can maintain themselves only by crime, little states are virtuous only by weakness."


"It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace."


"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."
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