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Crime Quotes
"He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it."
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"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."
30
"Crime is an overhead you have to pay if you want to live in the city."
27
"If, at the limit, you can rule without crime, you cannot do so without injustices."
22
"The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual crime."
20
"Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent."
15
"Poverty is like punishment for a crime you didn't commit."
13
"Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal."
8
"There are crimes that are truly uncomely. With crimes, whatever they may be, the more blood, the more horror there is, the more imposing they are, the more picturesque, so to speak, but there are crimes that are shameful, disgraceful, all horror aside, so to speak, even far too ungracious..."
8
"He told us he was going to take crime out of the streets. He did. He took it into the damn White House."
8
"It is a crime against the State to be powerful enough to commit one."
8
"The cure for crime is not the electric chair, but the high chair."
7
"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."
7
"If we were really tough on crime, we'd do more to stop it from happening in the first place."
6
"Killing someone is the ultimate crime, while on the other hand, killing someone in uniform is fulfillment of duty."
6
"To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked."
6
"We need to send a clear message to gang members that violent crime will not be tolerated."
6
"As governor, there isn't a lot I can do beyond that to crack down on crime. Law enforcement is really a local issue. It's the cops' job to tighten down on criminals."
6
"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."
6
"Rape is the only crime in which the victim becomes the accused."
5
"Three thousand jurisdictions across the U.S. are estimated to have had gang activity in 2001. In 2002, 32% of cities with a population of 25 to 50 thousand reported a gang-related homicide."
5
"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."
5
"If we believe in our current penal process, then the penalties imposed by judges and juries should be the only sanctions for one's crime, not the invisible sanctions of the legislature."
5
"Stopping crime before it occurs is the most effective crime fighting tool of all."
5
"Murder is not the crime of criminals, but that of law-abiding citizens."
5
"I didn't break into comics to write fairytales or crime comics."
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