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• I fear the carnival of crime is beginning on our border.

  Edward Blake

  Borders, Carnivals

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• Consideration of any kind are a crime against the German people and the soldier at the front.

  Wilhelm Keitel

  People, Soldier, Kind

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• A jury of my countrymen, it is true, have found me guilty of the crime of which I stood indicted. For this I entertain not the slightest feeling of resentment towards them.

  Thomas Francis Meagher

  Feelings, Resentment, Host

  W F. Lyons, Thomas Francis Meagher (1871). “Brigadier-general Thomas Francis Meagher: his political and military career; with selections from his speeches and writings”, p.13

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• We must put together countries that produce drugs, countries that traffic, and countries that consume, and through this multilateral effort really stop the growing of crime.

  Vicente Fox

  Country, Effort, Drug

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• My great crime in the world is blunder I will get into scrapes without intention or any bad motive.

  Stand Watie

  World, Intention, Blunders

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• The Holocaust was the most evil crime ever committed.

  Stephen Ambrose

  Evil, Holocaust, Genocide

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• You know that murder is wicked. If you saw your master kill a man, do you suppose this would be any excuse for you, if you should commit the same crime?

  Jupiter Hammon

  Men, Wicked, Saws

  Jupiter Hammon, Stanley Austin Ransom (1983). “America's first Negro poet: the complete works of Jupiter Hammon of Long Island”, Associated Faculty Pr Inc

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• Small crimes always precedes great ones.

  Jean Racine

  Great Ones

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• In the deregulated realm of US banking and finance, crime does occasionally pay for its foul deeds, not in prison time but by making modest rebates to the victims.

  William Greider

  Prison Time, Doe, Banking

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• Russia's biggest problem is organized crime and its leaders are influenced by the Russian mafia. But it's not right to call it a Russian mafia, it's a Jewish mafia.

  David Duke

  Russia, Leader, Mafia

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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.

  Steig Larsson

  Trying, Stories, Entertainment

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• The expansion and sophistication of transnational crime represents one of the most dangerous threats we confront in the next millennium.

  Rand Beers

  Expansion, Next, Millennium

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• The continued increase in many crime indicators and the fact that the overall crime rate has not seen a marked decrease while the Liberals have been in power is a clear indication that the Liberal approach to combating crime, as on so many other issues, has failed.

  Stephen Harper

  Issues, Facts, Increase

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• A majority of the crime in the downtown is property crime. There have been a few larcenies and burglaries, but robberies and assaults are not common in the downtown. There isn't usually any violent crime.

  Greg Smith

  Majority, Downtown, Common

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• The doctrine that the cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy is like saying that the cure of crime is more crime.

  H. L. Mencken

  Evil, Democracy, Doctrine

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• Crime is naught but misdirected energy.

  Emma Goldman

  Energy, Criminals, Crime And Criminals

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.33, 谷月社

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• Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Glasses, Criminals, Earth

  Essays "Compensation" (1841)

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• The guilty is he who meditates a crime; the punishment is his who lays the plot.

  Vittorio Alfieri

  Punishment, Plot, Prison

  "Antigone". Play by Vittorio Alfieri, Act 2, Scene 2, 1801.

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• Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions.

  Agatha Christie

  Attitude, Soul, Mind

  Agatha Christie (1956). “Surprise Endings by Hercule Poirot: Including The A. B. C. Murders, Murder in Three Acts, and Cards on the Table”

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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

  War, Struggle, Thrones

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• Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Peace, Brother, War

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, Richard Herne Shepherd (1810). “The Prose Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley ... Ed. ... by Richard Herne Shepherd”, p.286

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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.

  Georges Bataille

  Elude Us, Scary, Secret

  Georges Bataille (1991). “The Trial of Gilles de Rais”, Amok Books

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• The crime and not the scaffold makes the shame.

  Pierre Corneille

  Shame

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• Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime.

  Vittorio Alfieri

  Men, Heaven, Care

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 148-149), 1922.

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• I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Money, Business, Philosophy

  Henry David Thoreau, David Gross (2007). “The Price of Freedom: Political Philosophy from Thoreau's Journals”, p.98, David M Gross

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