Crime Quotes - Page 13

• There is a tendency among many shallow thinkers of our day to teach that every human act is a reflex, over which we do not exercise human control. They would rate a generous deed as no more praiseworthy than a wink, a crime as no more voluntary than a sneeze. . . Such a philosophy undercuts all human dignity. . . All of us have the power of choice in action at every moment of our lives.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Philosophy, Exercise, Choices

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• No government which governs by the use of force can survive except by force. There is no going back because force begets force and the perpetrators of crimes live in fear that they might become victims in their turn.

  Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo

  Fear, Government, Tyrants

  Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo (2001). “The Road to Freedom: A Collection of Speeches, Pastoral Letters, and Articles from 1997-2001”

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• There is no crime more infamous than the violation of truth. It is apparent that men can be social beings no longer than they believe each other. When speech is employed only as the vehicle of falsehood, every man must disunite himself from others, inhabit his own cave and seek prey only for himself.

  Samuel Johnson

  Believe, Men, Society

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1834). “Murphy's essay. The rambler. The adventurer. The idler. Rasselas. Tales of the imagination. Letters. Irene. Miscellaneous poems”, p.375

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• Imprisonment, as it exists today, is a worse crime than any of those committed by its victims.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Society, Today, Victim

  George Bernard Shaw (1993). “The Complete Prefaces: 1914-1929”, Viking Adult

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• The President of the United States would be liable to be impeached, tried, and upon conviction of treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors, removed from office; and would afterwards be liable to prosecution and punishment in the ordinary course of law. The person of the King of Great Britain is sacred and inviolable: There is no constitutional tribunal to which he is amenable, no punishment to which he can be subjected without involving the crisis of a national revolution.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Kings, Law, Punishment

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2007). “The Federalist Papers”, p.524, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• The organization of society is always and everywhere the unique cause of the crimes committed by individuals.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Unique, Organization, Causes

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• One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem on others.

  Juvenal

  Men, Infamous, One Man

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• There is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action.

  Clarence Darrow

  Wisdom, Action, Criminal Justice

  Clarence Darrow (2012). “Attorney for the Damned: Clarence Darrow in the Courtroom”, p.16, University of Chicago Press

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• I know they say (Stalin) killed 20, 30, 40 million people. It's bullsh*t. (I have yet to find) one crime that Stalin committed.

  Grover Furr

  College, People, Obnoxious

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• Laws must never be made compatible with crimes, no more than lying should be in harmony with the truth.

  Vincent de Paul

  Wisdom, Lying, Law

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1985). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Apr. 1650-July 1653”

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• Captain Crawford didn't like the idea of any kind of murder, but he went at it patiently and honestly and with none of the stupidity and bombast and rubber-hose techniques that Los Angeles crime fiction writers had led me to expect. I'd gotten the impression that unless a gifted amateur in love with the lady got himself almost beaten to a pulp and practically inside the lethal gas chamber before he unmasked the venal and brutalized constabulary, any innocent bystander they could get their hands on was a gone duck.

  Leslie Ford

  Bystanders, Hands, Ideas

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• Some of the best movies made about crime are those where the crime solver can get inside the head of the serial killer, and those are the techniques we use in C.S.I.

  Paul Guilfoyle

  Serial Killer, Technique, Use

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• I'm the only woman who can walk in Central Park at night... and reduce the crime rate.

  Phyllis Diller

  Inspirational, Night, Central Park

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• Children's bodies aren't like automobiles with the assailant's fingerprints lingering on the wheel. The world of sexual abuse is quintessentiall y secret. It is the perfect crime.

  Beatrix Campbell

  Children, Perfect, Abuse

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• Sharing music is not a crime. It shouldn't be. There should be a deeper meaning to making music than just selling downloads.

  Dave Grohl

  Selling, Should, Music Is

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• One would have thought that it was even more necessary to limit population than property; and that the limit should be fixed by calculating the chances of mortality in the children, and of sterility in married persons. The neglect of this subject, which in existing states is so common, is a never-failing cause of poverty among the citizens; and poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.

  Aristotle

  Children, Parent, Citizens

  Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.2008, Princeton University Press

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• If someone committed a crime, they will no longer work in my administration.

  George W. Bush

  Administration, Committed, Ifs

  George W. Bush at a press conference with the Prime Minister of India, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. July 18, 2005.

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• Over 70% of what are called corruption (cases), even by EFCC (Economic and Financial Crimes Commission) and other anti-corruption agencies, is not corruption, but common stealing.

  Goodluck Jonathan

  Agency, Common, Financial

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• Happiness lies only in that which excites, and the only thing that excites is crime.

  Marquis de Sade

  Lying

  Sade (marquis de), Marquis de Sade (1987). “The 120 days of Sodom and other writings”, Grove Pr

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• The United States government does not authorise or condone torture of detainees. Torture, and conspiracy to commit torture, are crimes under US law, wherever they may occur in the world.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Government, Law, United States

  "Rice defends US policy". news.bbc.co.uk. December 5, 2005.

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• I grew up on the crime stuff. Spillane, Chandler, Jim Thompson, and noir movies like Fuller, Orson Welles, Fritz Lang. When I first showed up in New York to write comics back in the late 1970s, I came with a bunch of crime stories but everybody just wanted men in tights.

  Frank Miller

  New York, Writing, Men

  "Black and white and bloody" by Steve Rose, www.theguardian.com. May 26, 2005.

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• There's an overlap between social-realist fiction and crime fiction - a sweet spot there.

  Daniel Woodrell

  Sweet, Fiction, Realist

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• Muslims consider the honor of the Prophet Muhammad to be dearer to them than that of their parents or even themselves. To defend it is considered to be an obligation upon them. The strict punishment if found guilty of this crime under sharia, the Islamic law, is capital punishment implementable by an Islamic State. This is because the Messenger Muhammad said, ‘Whoever insults a Prophet, kill him.’

  Anjem Choudary

  Islamic, Punishment, Law

  "Anjem Choudary says woman who organised Muhammed cartoon contest should face death penalty under Sharia Law" by Christopher Bucktin, www.mirror.co.uk. May 7, 2015.

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• Indeed, in US politics, 'poverty', along with 'welfare', 'unwed mothers' and 'crime', became code words for blacks.

  Frances Fox Piven

  Mother, Poverty, Welfare

  Frances Fox Piven (2012). “Lessons for Our Struggle”, p.12, Haymarket Books

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• A real cop fights real crime. A vice cop's only job is to ruin the party.

  Doug Stanhope

  Funny, Jobs, Real

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