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That is why I come forward tonight without any political label, without any bias, but just simply as an Englishman to say to you: a crime is being committed against civilization.

Quotes by John Amery

It doesn't help to wait until something happens and then prosecute the offenders, especially if it's the idea of the offender to extinguish himself in the commission of the crime.

Quotes by John Ashcroft

The way the terrorist is trained to operate, especially the suicide terrorists, makes punishment and the threat of punishment far less valuable to those who would prevent the crime.

Quotes by John Ashcroft

There's definitely a fascination with crime stories and stories of characters acting out against authority.

Quotes by Joel Edgerton

We grew up on Scorsese and Coppola and '70s crime thrillers.

Quotes by Joe Russo

It's not a crime to get drunk.

Quotes by Joe Bob Briggs

We're carrying out a real crusade against corruption and impunity with a focus on white-collar crime.

Quotes by Joao Lourenco

Many Scandinavian writers who had made their name in literary fiction felt they wanted to have a go at the crime novel to show they could compete with the best. If Salman Rushdie had been Norwegian, he would definitely have written at least one thriller.

Quotes by Jo Nesbo

Ever since the '70s, Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo were the godfathers of Scandinavian crime. They broke the crime novel in Scandinavia from the kiosks and into the serious bookstores.

Quotes by Jo Nesbo

I wasn't that into crime novels at all, but a friend introduced me to the work of Jim Thompson - I loved all his books.

Quotes by Jo Nesbo

Very little other than Elmore Leonard's crime writing inspiring me on my Batman run.

Quotes by Jim Starlin

In my home State of Minnesota, I have seen firsthand the importance of Byrne grants to local police in reducing crime and drugs and improving public safety.

Quotes by Jim Ramstad

There are some terrorist organizations, there are some organized crime organizations, that launder money through charities and make donations to charities. That's not the purpose of charitable donations in Canada, so we're becoming increasingly strict on the subject.

Quotes by Jim Flaherty

The Crime Victims Fund is distributed to service providers who assist millions of crime victims annually throughout our communities in a host of ways. It is paid for by fines levied on criminals, not taxpayers.

Quotes by Jim Costa

The Holocaust of Nazi Germany is certainly no less of a historic crime than the Holocaust that went on for centuries against African-Americans. That process of reparations, and a truth and reconciliation discussion, was extremely helpful in the country of Germany, and we need to have that here.

Quotes by Jill Stein

As governor, there isn't a lot I can do beyond that to crack down on crime. Law enforcement is really a local issue. It's the cops' job to tighten down on criminals.

Quotes by Jesse Ventura

We crime novelists have a great pulpit. We write about justice and about correcting injustice.

Quotes by Jesse Kellerman

Make it a crime to harm a fetus during another crime.

Quotes by Jerry Weller

I think it's too bad that everybody's decided to turn on drugs, I don't think drugs are the problem. Crime is the problem. Cops are the problem. Money's the problem. But drugs are just drugs.

Quotes by Jerry Garcia

Comedians second-guessing themselves is scary. Poor taste is not a crime and we can't forget that.

Quotes by Jeff Ross

It's been said that Generation X should get a life. Well, in 'Bottle Rocket,' they get a life of crime. Or at least try.

Quotes by Jeff Giles

If you prosecute a CEO or other senior executive and send him or her to jail for committing a crime, the deterrent effect in my view vastly outweighs even the best compliance program you can put in place.

Quotes by Jed S. Rakoff

I think it's common sense to say that the longer away from a crime it gets prosecuted, the less deterrent effect there is.

Quotes by Jed S. Rakoff

The First Amendment does not give you the right to commit a crime.

Quotes by Jeanine Pirro

Members of the FBI and the Department of Justice - some of whom ended up on Bob Mueller's team to prosecute Donald Trump - did everything they could to exonerate Hillary Clinton for her crimes and incriminate Donald Trump with a non-existent crime.

Quotes by Jeanine Pirro

Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.

Quotes by Jean Baudrillard

I love Britain. I'd like to work there. Maybe a BBC crime show; I love those. A thriller would be something different.

Quotes by Jayma Mays

The Washington Bullets are changing their name. They don't want their team to be associated with crime. From now on, they'll just be known as the Bullets.

Quotes by Jay Leno

Obstruction of Congress in our work is a crime.

Quotes by Jason Chaffetz

By definition, transnational crime crosses borders, but efforts to combat it mostly do not.

Quotes by Jared Cohen

My earnest hope is that what we started in terms of building partnerships with communities across America will continue, that we will continue our efforts to reduce crime and violence.

Quotes by Janet Reno

I'm vitally interested in cyber crime and in preparing law enforcement for a time when crime is international in its origins and its consequences.

Quotes by Janet Reno

I had done 12 little romance books, and I decided I wanted to move into crime fiction.

Quotes by Janet Evanovich

My father gave me Dostoevsky's 'Crime and Punishment' when I was in junior high; my junior high, angst-filled soul responded to that.

Quotes by Janet Fitch

Crime novelists do really well with Los Angeles.

Quotes by Janet Fitch

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.

Quotes by Jane Byrne

Where previously the international underworld was a world of local, often-warring mafia territories, it has become globalised. The criminal has become corporate, and the corporate has become criminal. Organised crime has become very organised indeed.

Quotes by James Watkins

Moviegoers love the intricacies of a crime all the more when it's for a good cause.

Quotes by James Surowiecki

Not failure, but low aim, is crime.

Quotes by James Russell Lowell

Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.

Quotes by James Russell Lowell

Crime is the price society pays for abandoning character.

Quotes by James Q. Wilson

I believe that the high rates of property crime (and some of the increase in violent crime) are part of the price you pay for freedom.

Quotes by James Q. Wilson

As much as I transferred my mother to Elizabeth Shore of The Black Dahlia, as much as her dad mutated into an obsession with crime in general, well, I have thought about other things throughout the years.

Quotes by James Ellroy

I love thinking about American history, thinking about LA history. I love brooding on crime.

Quotes by James Ellroy

Anybody who doesn't know that politics is crime has got a few screws loose.

Quotes by James Ellroy

African-Americans have always viewed the protection of black lives as a civil rights issue, whether the threat comes from police officers or street criminals. Far from ignoring the issue of crime by blacks against other blacks, African-American officials and their constituents have been consumed by it.

Quotes by James Forman, Jr.

Mass incarceration and its never-ending human toll will be with us until we come to see that no crime justifies permanent civic death.

Quotes by James Forman, Jr.

The private sector is the key player in cyber security. Private sector companies are the primary victims of cyber intrusions. And they also possess the information, the expertise, and the knowledge to address cyber intrusions and cyber crime in general.

Quotes by James Comey

I was long brought up to think that it was nothing short of a crime to miss a sale.

Quotes by James Cash Penney

The rise of computer crime and armed robbery has not eliminated the lure of caged cash.

Quotes by James Chiles

Organized crime is the dirty side of the sharp dollar.

Quotes by James Chiles

It is obviously sensible the crossing of a border ought not to protect a criminal from the consequences of his crime.

Quotes by Jacob Rees-Mogg

If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down.

Quotes by Jack Valenti

If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.

Quotes by Jack Kerouac

The biological factors underlying race differences in sports have consequences for educational achievement, crime and sexual behavior.

Quotes by J. Philippe Rushton

The cure for crime is not the electric chair, but the high chair.

Quotes by J. Edgar Hoover

We are afraid to face the hard questions. We are willing to tackle drugs, crime, and public education only if it doesn't cost us any new taxes.

Quotes by J. Irwin Miller

We came to say, the Quran is our constitution, we are committed to God and his holy book. God willing, should they try to carry out their crime against the Quran, God will tear their state apart and they will become God's lesson to anyone who tries to desecrate the holy book.

Quotes by Ismail Haniyeh

To make crime unprofitable, let the government run it.

Quotes by Irene Peter

Buying a matching blouse and skirt from the same store is a crime. A clever mix of chic and cheap hits the jackpot. Know how to mix styles and labels.

Quotes by Ines de La Fressange

Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.

Quotes by Imre Lakatos

I was always obsessed with crime, crime shows, anything to do with unsolved cold cases.

Quotes by India Eisley

Our country's national crime is lynching. It is not the creature of an hour, the sudden outburst of uncontrolled fury, or the unspeakable brutality of an insane mob.

Quotes by Ida B. Wells

I wrote 'Knots and Crosses,' the first of the Rebus books, not even realising that I was writing crime fiction.

Quotes by Ian Rankin

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.

Quotes by Ian Williams

'Murder in the First' takes 12 episodes to explore the crime and the issues surrounding it, all in the hopes of answering the question, 'How did we get to this point?'

Quotes by Ian Anthony Dale

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

Quotes by Hunter S. Thompson

So, if falling crime rates coincide with the rise of violent video games and increasing violence on TV and at the cinema, should we conclude that media violence is causing the drop in crime rates?

Quotes by Hugh Mackay

About 25 years ago, I started out as a reporter covering politics. And that sort of just evolved into organized crime, because organized crime and politics were the same thing in Boston.

Quotes by Howie Carr

To let politics become a cesspool, and then avoid it because it is a cesspool, is a double crime.

Quotes by Howard Crosby

I wish to note that intellectual property theft by a government represents the very essence of organized crime.

Quotes by Howard Berman

We are often deterred from crime by the disgrace of others.

Quotes by Horace

I'm not excusing crime or those who bring poison into the community, but I do want brothers and sisters in prison to know someone cares.

Quotes by Hill Harper

It should never be a crime to be gay.

Quotes by Hillary Clinton

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.

Quotes by Henry Miller

Received left-wing wisdom holds that the police cannot lower crime, only massive welfare spending and the redistribution of wealth can.

Quotes by Heather Mac Donald

Lowered crime is a precondition to economic revival, not its consequence.

Quotes by Heather Mac Donald

Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing.

Quotes by Hannah Arendt

Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.

Quotes by Hannah Arendt

There are 195 crime books published in Sweden every year. You could cut that to 100 and keep the good ones.

Quotes by Hakan Nesser

Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.

Quotes by H. G. Wells

How do we prevent Iran developing an atomic bomb, when, on the American side, dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki is not recognised as a war crime?

Quotes by Gunter Grass

The judge said I was a menace to society because I had put crime on a scientific basis.

Quotes by Gregory Corso

I've been to Delhi, Madras, Bangalore and a lot of other cities, but I have never seen a crime set-up like that in Bombay.

Quotes by Gregory David Roberts

Crime is stupid, lazy and weak. You can only exploit it and make money out of it.

Quotes by Gregory David Roberts

I am falsely accused, without proof, of using my position for personal profit. Many who accuse me have lifestyles and spending habits that make them walking proofs of that crime.

Quotes by Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

What made Guantanamo such a travesty - and what still makes it such - is that it is a system of indefinite detention whereby human beings are put in cages for years and years without ever being charged with a crime.

Quotes by Glenn Greenwald

My interest is in turning over a rock and seeing what's underneath. It's a personality trait more than anything; it's what made me want to become a crime reporter, even though I was not suited for it personality-wise.

Quotes by Gillian Flynn

The best crime reporters don't mind charging in - but they also know how to do it as decent human beings.

Quotes by Gillian Flynn

In Kenya, crime and terrorism are deeply linked, not least by the failure of successive Kenyan governments to control either.

Quotes by Giles Foden

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.

Quotes by Georges Bataille

As a musician I tell you that if you were to suppress adultery, fanaticism, crime, evil, the supernatural, there would no longer be the means for writing one note.

Quotes by Georges Bizet

Dropping those atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a war crime.

Quotes by George Wald

Popularity is a crime from the moment it is sought; it is only a virtue where men have it whether they will or no.

Quotes by George Savile

'The Turnaround' isn't even really a crime novel. But you need conflict to make a novel, any kind of novel, and I don't know any other way to do it than crime.

Quotes by George Pelecanos

Sometimes I think 'The Wire' said it all, and I might as well not write any more crime novels.

Quotes by George Pelecanos

It is hardly fair to accuse us of ignorance when it was made a crime under the former order of things to learn enough about letters to even read the Word of God.

Quotes by George H. White

There is no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.

Quotes by George Farquhar

The seasons come up undisturbed by crime and war.

Quotes by George A. Smith

The brutality that can take place in a crime film heightens the tenderness that can also be there.

Quotes by Geoffrey S. Fletcher

I love so many different genres. I love crime films - and unusual coming-of-age pieces.

Quotes by Geoffrey S. Fletcher

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