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A state is not a mere society, having a common place, established for the prevention of mutual crime and for the sake of exchange...Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship.

Aristotle
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To open his lips is crime in a plain citizen.

Quintus Ennius
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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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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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The judge is condemned when the criminal is absolved.

Publilius Syrus
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Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. It is an open secret that the dangerous increase of crime in this counrty is closely related with this. -Albert Einstein
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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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The worst crime is faking it.

Kurt Cobain
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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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Where the suspect poses no immediate threat to the officer and no threat to others, the harm resulting from the failing to apprehend him does not justify the use of deadly force to do so.

Byron R. White
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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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When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion. -C. P. Snow
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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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Crooks are early adopters.

Craig Newmark
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Aside from the murders, DC has one of the lowest crime rates in the country. -Marion Barry
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There's a simple way to solve the crime problem: obey the law; punish those who do not.

Rush Limbaugh
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There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime and the earth is made of glass. Commit a crime, and it seems as if a coat of snow fell on the ground, such as reveals in the woods the track of every partridge, and fox, and squirrel.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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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A crime which is the crime of many none avenge.

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

Jean Baudrillard
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Obviously crime pays, or there'd be no crime. -G. Gordon Liddy
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The reason there are so many imbeciles among imprisoned criminals is that an imbecile is so foolish even a detective can detect him.

Austin O'Malley
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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.

George Bataille
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Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. -George Bernard Shaw
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Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.

Aristotle
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He who allows oppression shares the crime.

Desiderius Erasmus
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Popularity is a crime from the moment it is sought; it is only a virtue where men have it whether they will or no. -Sir George Savile
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One way to make sure crime doesn't pay would be to let the government run it.

Ronald Reagan
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But from each crime are born bullets that will one day seek out in you where the heart lies.

Pablo Neruda
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Crime is naught but misdirected energy. -Emma Goldman
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