Crime Quotes - Page 13

• I obeyed, but my crime was that I did not look obedient.

  Tehmina Durrani

  Looks, Obedient

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• I have never been on the receiving end of a hate crime, or even a disparaging remark to my face.

  Carol Anshaw

  Hate, Receiving, Faces

  "Carol Anshaw And Stephen McCauley Discuss Gay Literature". Interview with Stephen McCauley, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 31, 2012.

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• I believe that the death penalty is the ultimate deterrent to violent crime...period.

  Troy King

  Believe, Death Penalty, Violent

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• I said the kidnapping is a crime. I have the right to speak about the crime done against me. They didn't like me to speak about this crime. So I decided to reveal it to the public.

  Mordechai Vanunu

  Done, Speak, Said

  Interview with Amy Goodman, www.counterpunch.org. August 18, 2004.

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• When some incident has shattered the career you’ve mapped out for yourself, a folly, a crime or a misfortune, you mustn’t think you’re down and out. It may be a stroke of luck, and when you look back years later you may say to yourself that you wouldn’t for anything in the world exchange the new life disaster has forced upon you for the dull, humdrum existence you would have led if circumstances hadn’t intervened.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Thinking, Years, Careers

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• These things are happening in large measure because of us. We in this country burn 25 percent of the world's fossil fuel, create 25 percent of the world's carbon dioxide. It is us - it is the affluent lifestyles that we lead that overwhelmingly contribute to this problem. And to call it a problem is to understate what it really is. Which is a crime. Crime against the poorest and most marginalized people on this planet. We've never figured out, though God knows we've tried, a more effective way to destroy their lives.

  Bill McKibben

  Country, People, Fuel

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• Virtuosi have been long remarked to have little conscience in their favorite pursuits. A man will steal a rarity who would cut off his hand rather than take the money it is worth. Yet, in fact, the crime is the same.

  Horace

  Cutting, Men, Hands

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• The much greater crimes of the Soviet Gulags occurred over decades and cost millions of lives.

  Jean-Marie Le Pen

  Cost, Gulags, Soviet

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• Get Carter remains among the great crime novels, a lean, muscular portrait of a man stumbling along the hard edge - toward redemption. Ted Lewis cuts to the bone.

  James Sallis

  Cutting, Men, Crime Novels

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• The crimes committed by the North Vietnamese regime against the Vietnamese people were minor compared to the crimes committed by the Khmer Rouge against the Cambodians, but for us on the left they were emotionally far more significant.

  James Donald

  People, Significant, Regimes

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• Prosecutors say my father was the biggest crime boss in the nation... If you really want to know what John Gotti was like, you need to talk to my family. We lived this life.

  Victoria Gotti

  Father, Boss, Needs

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• The serious crimes by the Sudanese government and the government-supported militias must be met with serious consequences. We must work for tough international economic sanctions on the Sudanese government.

  Allyson Schwartz

  Government, Economic Sanctions, Serious

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• I'm a bit of a hacker fanatic and know a fair bit about that industry and cyber crime and cyber warfare.

  Seth Gordon

  Warfare, Hackers, Cyber

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 4, 2011.

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• I've buried six Guardian Angels who have been shot and killed in the line of duty. I was stalked myself, had a gunman go pow, pow, pow, pow, pow, pow, five hollow point bullets, God save me. What do you think this is? This isn't Zimmerman. But unfortunately, he's become the face of Block Watch, Crime Watch.

  Curtis Sliwa

  Block, Angel, Thinking

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• Securities fraud generally and insider trading in particular should be eminently deterrable crimes.

  Preet Bharara

  Insider Trading, Should, Fraud

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• Arson, after all, is an artificial crime...A large number of houses deserve to be burnt.

  H. G. Wells

  Fire, Numbers, House

  1909 The History of Mr Polly, ch.10, pt.1.

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• Humanity is the crime; God is the criminal.

  Kedar Joshi

  Humanity, Criminals

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• There's an obsession, within our culture, with the genteel thief. Somebody who commits a crime, but does it in a classy way.

  Geoffrey Gray

  Thieves, Doe, Culture

  "Will Don Draper Become D.B. Cooper? A Skyjacking Expert Weighs In". Interview with Julia Turner, www.slate.com. April 16, 2014.

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• I love playing half squid/half crab guy because you can get away with a level of acting that if you tried it anywhere else they'd arrest you for crimes against acting.

  Bill Nighy

  Squids, Guy, Acting

  "EXCLUSIVE: Bill Nighy Is Davy Jones in Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End". Interview with Evan Jacobs, movieweb.com. May 20, 2007.

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• Let's say that you commit a crime, you get caught, you might get sent to prison. It's going to be bad. But if you get caught spying, you're literally hanged the next morning.

  Jamie Bell

  Morning, Next, Might

  "Jamie Bell's History Lesson"". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 9, 2014.

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• Punishment follows close on crime.

  Horace

  Punishment

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 649-652, Carmina, IV. 5. 24, 1922.

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• In a society in which it is a moral offense to be different from your neighbor your only escape is to never let them find out.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Tolerance, Different, Moral

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• Wine takes away reason, engenders insanity, leads to thousands of crimes, and imposes such an enormous expense on nations.

  Pliny the Elder

  Wine, Insanity, Reason

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• ACCOMPLICE, n. One associated with another in a crime, having guilty knowledge and complicity, as an attorney who defends a criminal, knowing him guilty. This view of the attorney's position in the matter has not hitherto commanded the assent of attorneys, no one having offered them a fee for assenting.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Views, Knowing, Matter

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2352, Delphi Classics

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• I never think I feel cynical in general. Cynical is reality with an alternate spelling. I feel there's a gigantic amount of injustice and overt crime every day in the world, from emotional crimes to international crimes, and it often carries rewards.

  Woody Allen

  Reality, Emotional, Thinking

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