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Quotes About Crime

The fact that 'Delhi Crime' dropped on Netflix and 191 countries in one go, that reach is humungous.
~ Shefali Shah
Mafia guys are all just insecure people who want their money. They're like little seven-year old kids when they don't get their way. I knew guys like that growing up in New Jersey.
~ Ray Liotta
I'd lived in New Jersey for 30 years. That was long enough. It's too crowded up there, and it's a very dangerous place to live. There's a whole lotta crime.
~ Wilson Pickett
We don't want crimes committed in New Mexico falling through the cracks. This legislation ensures that there is no area of our state where crimes can be committed without consequence.
~ Pete Domenici
I know from my nightclub days that when local cops need to show a fall in crime for political reasons there are all sorts of ways in which they can easily cheat numbers.
~ Dominic Cummings
To confront criminals, we need to finish with corruption. If we don't do this, there is no hope.
~ Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador
He's a sweet man whose crime was that he didn't love me quite enough, and because this wasn't much of a crime I had to make up some bigger ones.
~ Nick Hornby, A Long Way Down
ABAC'TOR, noun [Latin from abigo, ab and ago, to drive.] In law, one that feloniously drives away or steals a herd or numbers of cattle at once, in distinction from one that steals a sheep or two.
~ Noah Webster
Bombing of urban areas was not considered a war crime at Nuremberg; reason is, the West did more of it than the Germans.
~ Noam Chomsky
In fact, most of what they're calling crime is a kid caught with a joint in his pocket. Why do people think of that as the problem?
~ Noam Chomsky
Now is not the time to look at the past. Lets look forward to the future. Diplomats know very well that these are standard slogans for those who are engaged in serious crimes.
~ Noam Chomsky
It is easy to be carried away by the sheer horror of what the daily press reveals and to lose sight of the fact that this is merely the brutal exterior of a deeper crime, of commitment to a social order that guarantees endless suffering and humiliation and denial of elementary human rights
~ Noam Chomsky
The basic function of the FBI is not to stop crime. Rather, it functions as a political police, in large measure.
~ Noam Chomsky
Aggression is "the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole.
~ Noam Chomsky
The reasoning throughout is straightforward, and is in full accord with what Bush calls "new thinking in the law of war," which takes international law and treaties to be "private contractual rules" that the more powerful party "is free to apply or disregard as it sees fit": sternly enforced to ensure a safer world for investors, but quaint and obsolete when they constrain Washington's resort to aggression and other crimes.
~ Noam Chomsky
crime of war" is a criminal activity of which the defeated enemies, but not the victors, are guilty.
~ Noam Chomsky
It's all quite predictable, as study after study shows. A brutal tyrant crosses the line from admirable friend to "villain" and "scum" when he commits the crime of independence. One common mistake is to go beyond robbing the poor—which is just fine—and to start interfering with the privileged, eliciting opposition from business leaders.
~ Noam Chomsky
Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go murder a man.
~ Nora Roberts
Twenty-five thousand," Maggie murmured. A tidy sum, even tidier ten years ago. "You're telling me you think the money was the motive for murder?" "Money's always a motive for murder, and it's a loose end.
~ Nora Roberts
Yes, I kidnapped that Lindberg baby.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
No sin, no crime, then extinction not earned.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Arson, kidnapping, I think I'm up to murder. Maybe all this will get me just a glimmer of attention, not the good, glorious kind, but still the national media kind.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Stabbing, Mitzi could write a book about. For example, why some killers kept stabbing for so long. Only the first thrust is intended to inflict pain. The subsequent twenty, thirty, forty stab wounds are to resolve the suffering.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Look deep into your heart, Gentle Reader. Deep, deep, deep; past your desire for true love, for inexhaustible riches or uncontested sexual championship, for the ability to fight crime and restore peace to a weary world. Underneath all this, if you are a true, red-blooded American, you'll find the throbbing desire to be famous.
~ Cintra Wilson