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Crime Quotes
"What does signature mean? Supposedly these are the added touches that make the crime personal to the killer."
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"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."
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"I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens."
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"Where is the expectation of privacy in the commission of a crime?"
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"Dullness is the only crime for which an editor ought to be hung."
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"Our party's committed to tackling failing schools and cutting crime."
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"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."
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"What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is the last resort of political half-wits."
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"Stopping crime before it occurs is the most effective crime fighting tool of all."
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"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."
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"The criminal is the creative artist, the detective only the critic."
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"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."
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"The world of crime is a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event."
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"In a free world there is, alas, more common crime than in a dictatorial system."
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"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."
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"Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime."
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"I would feel horrible to think I had put my name on a pistol permit and allowed someone to carry around a gun and they committed another crime."
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"I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law."
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"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."
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"After all, crime is only a left-handed form of human endeavor."
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"In a colony constituted like that of New South Wales, the proportion of crime must of course be great."
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"Rather let the crime of the guilty go unpunished than condemn the innocent."
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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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"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."
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"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."
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"Base stealing, like crime in general, is increasing and is also getting more difficult to curb."
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"We have just discovered our dear colleague butchered in a hotel room, and you wish to discuss literature?"
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"One crime has to be concealed by another."
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"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."
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"Ever see moors murderer Ian Brady, study his photos, study Black, study Cannon, study Sutcliffe - study them all! Who says evil is not recognisable?"
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"I keep telling the screws over and over again, 'If you treat a young boy in prison like a dog, keep him in a cell that is like a cage and constantly beat him and bully him, that boy is going to grow up hating yous and the system.' The only thing on his mind will be revenge, maybe it is not revenge on the screws that so frequently bullied and tortured him, but in the boy's eyes he is getting revenge on the uniform, as it all means the same thing in the boy's or man's eyes."
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