A crime which is the crime of many none avenge.
~Lucan

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A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.
~Tacitus

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All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible.
~Noah Webster

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Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
~Evelyn Waugh

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Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
~Honore de Balzac

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But what sin is to the moralist and crime to the jurist so to the scientific man is ignorance.
~Frederick Soddy

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

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Crime, money, power, drugs - are all linked.
~Matthew Vaughn

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Criminal: A person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.
~Howard Scott

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Crooks are early adopters.
~Craig Newmark

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Despotism is a long crime.
~Victor Hugo

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Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime.
~Vittorio Alfieri

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Dr. Flint had sworn that he would make me suffer, to my last day, for this new crime against him, as he called it; and as long as he had me in his power he kept his word.
~Harriet Ann Jacobs

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Dullness is the only crime for which an editor ought to be hung.
~Josephus Daniels

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Environmental degradation, overpopulation, refugees, narcotics, terrorism, world crime movements, and organized crime are worldwide problems that don't stop at a nation's borders.
~Warren Christopher

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For instance, why are we terrorizing this country, leading with murder and mayhem, when crime is actually on the decline, as somebody, as somebody mentioned?
~Christiane Amanpour

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For the past seven years we have been cracking down on crime in Missouri, passing tougher laws for drug crimes and sex offenses and requiring prisoners to serve more time.
~Mel Carnahan

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Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect.
~Hunter S. Thompson

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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.
~Howard Coble

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I don't think Capote loved Smith. But he did make a deep connection. It upset some people, because that had never been the approach to journalistic crime writing, to look into the mind of the killer.
~Gerald Clarke

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

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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.
~Ian Williams

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In fact, even the perception of a resurgence in crime can be enough to paralyze business momentum and destroy the sense of security that a vibrant and progressive city requires.
~Alan Autry

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In the housing projects, people talked of ways to reduce crime, relieve overcrowding, and they were good ideas that we plan to study, and possibly implement.
~Jane Byrne

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It means working harder to do the research but I don't really mind - I don't think I have what it takes to chase criminals through back alleys and wade through blood at crime scenes.
~Jeffery Deaver

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It's accurate to the extent that I explore the psychology of crime and crime detection in my books: the minds of the criminal and his hunters.
~Jeffery Deaver

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Koch never, ever gets blamed for crime.
~David Dinkins

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Labour is the party of law and order in Britain today. Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime.
~Tony Blair

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Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
~Bertrand Russell

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Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.
~Will Rogers

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Make it a crime to harm a fetus during another crime.
~Jerry Weller

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Many who resort to crime ultimately can't read or write.
~Wally Amos

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Maybe... there is a perfectly reasonable explanation for unlawfully detaining 120 people. Maybe they just got carried away with last year's idea of pre-emptive strikes and thought, 'Let's not wait for an actual crime to occur. Let's get the innocent.
~Mark Thomas

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Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.
~W. H. Auden

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Obviously crime pays, or there'd be no crime.
~G. Gordon Liddy

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One way to bring down crime in the state of California and every state in the union is to have an enforceable border. That means let's build that border fence. When people want to come into this country, let's ask them to knock on the front door.
~Duncan Hunter

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Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year and spends very little on office supplies.
~Woody Allen

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Our party's committed to tackling failing schools and cutting crime.
~Francis Maude

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Our people went out every single night trying to stop crime before it happened, trying to take people off the street that they believed were involved in crime. That made us a very aggressive, proactive police department.
~Daryl Gates

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Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination.
~Ovid

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Rape is the only crime in which the victim becomes the accused.
~Freda Adler

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Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium.
~Cyril Connolly

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Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit.
~Freda Adler

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The Child Custody Protection Act makes it a federal crime to transport a minor across state lines for the purpose of obtaining an abortion.
~Ken Calvert

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The crime novel has always been my favourite genre.
~Sara Paretsky

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The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.
~Jay Leno

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The fact that New York continues in the face of all of the chaos, of the crime, of the madness, you just think that it would just pop and vanish, just explode.
~Spalding Gray

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The key is to commit crimes so confusing that police feel too stupid to even write a crime report about them.
~Randy K. Milholland

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The punishment should fit the crime and if a doctor or drug company does harm knowingly or negligently to a patient they should be compensated to make them whole.
~Corrine Brown

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The reason there is so little crime in Germany is that it's against the law.
~Alex Levin

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