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Crime Quotes
"He told us he was going to take crime out of the streets. He did. He took it into the damn White House."
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"To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked."
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"I pulled the homemade jail knife out that I had in my hand, Porkie pulled out the very sharp lockback knife that he had concealed up his sleeve. We told the warden and nurse to sit on the floor, and if they did as we told them then no one would get hurt."
54
"It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace."
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"White-collar crime gets more outrageous by the second in America."
50
"Now if you want to look to the medical profession for a true hard bastard, there is none harder, in my opinion, than the man I will now name. I mean, 99.9 per cent of doctors would want to protect their pension and keep in with the in-crowd, not, though, this man amongst men. The star witness against the screws from Barlinnie was Doctor Simon Danson."
50
"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."
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"It may be impossible to have a revolution without crimes but that does not make revolution a crime."
49
"Too much sensibility creates unhappiness and too much insensibility creates crime."
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"What becomes a crime deserving capital punishment when the tables are turned is a matter of small moment when the negro woman is the accusing party."
48
"The Holocaust was the most evil crime ever committed."
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"I just spent 11 and a half months in a maximum-security jail, got shot five times, and was wrongly convicted of a crime I didn't commit."
48
"My father's corporation, the Nero Organization, supplied assassins for hire. Killing was our business, and business had been good for years."
48
"There is one instance that we cite in the report where in one of the conversations a member of organized crime is talking to another member of organized crime and he suggests that Attorney General Kennedy should be murdered."
47
"What does signature mean? Supposedly these are the added touches that make the crime personal to the killer."
47
"What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is the last resort of political half-wits."
47
"We also have to stop the flow of precursor chemicals that meth cooks use to boil up this poison."
47
"In a free world there is, alas, more common crime than in a dictatorial system."
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"Killing someone is the ultimate crime, while on the other hand, killing someone in uniform is fulfillment of duty."
46
"All I can really say is it's bloodier than hell. In this one I'm going to be much more direct and honest in my description of the actual killings and the crime scene."
46
"Grant pressed his back against the outside wall of the turquoise and white two-story home he and a team of Miami PD officers were about to storm. On the surface the place fit in perfectly into the upper middle class neighborhood. On the inside, however, it was a fully functioning cocaine lab."
46
"I think seeing some of the past can be helpful, especially if you're into crime solving."
45
"I wanted to show that crime doesn't pay. If you are saved and accept the Lord, you cannot use that as an excuse to avoid punishment."
45
"I am looking forward to a series of productive meetings in both Austria and Estonia, particularly what role organized crime plays in the Baltic drug trade."
45
"If we were really tough on crime, we'd do more to stop it from happening in the first place."
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"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."
44
"First of all, I'm in favor of making price gouging a crime, and in fact, one the reasons I didn't vote for the Republican House version was because there were too many breaks for the oil companies."
44
"I believe that the high rates of property crime (and some of the increase in violent crime) are part of the price you pay for freedom."
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"Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal."
43
"Crime is a fact of the human species, a fact of that species alone, but it is above all the secret aspect, impenetrable and hidden. Crime hides, and by far the most terrifying things are those which elude us."
43
"I hadn't realized until I covered the police beat just how seedy crime is."
43
"In a colony constituted like that of New South Wales, the proportion of crime must of course be great."
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"There are seventy-five perfumes, which it is very necessary that a criminal expert should be able to distinguish from each other, and cases have more than once within my own experience depended upon their prompt recognition."
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