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Crime Quotes


"Dullness is the only crime for which an editor ought to be hung."


"Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime."


"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."


"It was a mild winter's evening in 'Japp's Saloon and Speakeasy', in the northwest corner of the only legal red-light area of the city. (The S.O.D.s believed in crime management.) Timaset Skooch leaned back in the aluminum framed chair, checking his cards carefully while wearing his best poker face. Across the table from him sat Jonn Deire, a large man who was trying very hard to out-poker face him and who didn't enjoy jokes about his name much."


"Crime butchers innocence to secure a throne, and innocence struggles with all its might against the attempts of crime."


"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."


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


"What does signature mean? Supposedly these are the added touches that make the crime personal to the killer."


"I think seeing some of the past can be helpful, especially if you're into crime solving."



"Crime stories are, as you know, one of the most popular forms of entertainment that exist. If you then try to have something to say... that I have, of course."


"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."


"White-collar crime gets more outrageous by the second in America."


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


"I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens."


"However, don't let these statistics mislead you, gang violence is not limited to California and or big urban areas - that might have been true a while ago but it is no longer the case today."


"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."


"But in my district I have heard from law enforcement officials and across the State of Florida about how much this JAG funding helps them fight crime, and to protect and serve the citizens within their jurisdiction."


"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."


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


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


"The Holocaust was the most evil crime ever committed."


"He who allows oppression shares the crime."


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


"I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law."


"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."


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


"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."


"After all, crime is only a left-handed form of human endeavor."


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


"I hadn't realized until I covered the police beat just how seedy crime is."


"In a colony constituted like that of New South Wales, the proportion of crime must of course be great."
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