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Crime Quotes
"He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it."
269
"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."
220
"He has committed the crime who profits by it."
209
"Poverty is like punishment for a crime you didn't commit."
186
"If, at the limit, you can rule without crime, you cannot do so without injustices."
78
"Once again, off this skinny prick of a copper went. BANG! SLAP! PUNCH! It was more like a Batman movie! He could hit me all night, but it wouldn't make any difference."
78
"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."
77
"Crime is an overhead you have to pay if you want to live in the city."
77
"He who allows oppression shares the crime."
75
"We are not supposed to go out and kill all those we suspect to have committed a crime."
75
"There's a simple way to solve the crime problem: obey the law; punish those who do not."
73
"The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual crime."
73
"Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal."
72
"The cure for crime is not the electric chair, but the high chair."
72
"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."
71
"In fact, street gangs are the primary distributor of illegal drugs in the United States."
69
"Once I've done a crime, I just forget it. I go from crime to crime."
67
"Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent."
67
"I didn't break into comics to write fairytales or crime comics."
67
"Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression."
67
"Murder is not the crime of criminals, but that of law-abiding citizens."
66
"Make it a crime to harm a fetus during another crime."
63
"It is a crime against the State to be powerful enough to commit one."
61
"We have just discovered our dear colleague butchered in a hotel room, and you wish to discuss literature?"
61
"Powerful states can maintain themselves only by crime, little states are virtuous only by weakness."
60
"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."
60
"Twenty years ago, two of the CIA's best double-agents had been murdered in their own home on Christmas Eve. The husband had been killed first, and the wife had been raped repeatedly before she'd been beaten to death. The two children were never found."
59
"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."
57
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