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the influence of organised crime reaches into the economy, our politics and everyday life- dongri to dubai -- S. Hussain Zaidi

Money can buy the necessary police order. Justice is sold to the highest bidder -- Rohinton Mistry

Crime requires further crime to conceal it. -- Seneca The Younger

Any time you have poverty, joblessness, sub-par public schools, and a lack of opportunity, you're going to have a high rate of crime. -- George Pelecanos

Crime is the soul of lust. What would pleasure be if it were not accompanied by crime? It is not the object of debauchery that excites us, rather the idea of evil. -- Marquis De Sade

Crime butchers innocence to secure a throne, and innocence struggles with all its might against the attempts of crime. -- Maximilien Robespierre

There is no greater crime than desire. -- Laozi

Behind every great fortune, there lies a great crime -- Ben Mezrich

Time is with you... but as for the crime in that time... I am ain't fucking sure. -- Deyth Banger

The most common place crime is often the most mysterious, because it presents no new or specific features from which deductions may be drawn -- Arthur Conan Doyle

How many murders are committed in Gauteng, or in the Western Cape, in a month? A week? A day? An hour? But of course we are not allowed to know for sure. In close and direct imitation of his apartheid models, Selebi ensures that no statistics about crime may be published regularly in the press. -- Thabo Mbeki

How many crimes have been committed for no other reason than that the perpetrator could not bear being in the wrong! -- Albert Camus

A broad definition of crime in England is that it is any lower-class activity that is displeasing to the upper class. -- David Frost

The crimes in my books are committed by people who can't keep it together any more. They do something to express their own pain, and that has a terrible effect on somebody else. -- Sophie Hannah

In the city, a lot of crime happens, a lot of violence happens from time to time. -- Victor Cruz

Obviously crime pays, or there'd be no crime. -- G. Gordon Liddy

Crime is a product of a distorted mind. -- Kiran Bedi

Before and after the crime, not just during, in order -- Mindy Mcginnis

The intention makes the crime. -- Aristotle.

As the economy goes south, petty theft begins. And then grand theft. And then muggings. -- John Mcafee

Where is the expectation of privacy in the commission of a crime? -- Linda Tripp

A friend to honesty and a foe to crime -- Allan Pinkerton

If you had enough money, you could hardly commit crimes at all. You just perpetrated amusing little peccadilloes. -- Terry Pratchett

Everyone is a criminal! We are beset on all sides by antirevolutionary forces. Naturally, then, humans fall into three categories: the criminal, the not-yet-criminal, and the not-yet-caught. -- Catherynne M Valente

Criminals strike close to home just as the average person chooses stores where he shops daily. -- Robert Graysmith

Poverty may be the mother of crime, but lack of good sense is the father. -- Jean De La Bruyere

Atrophy of feeling creates criminals. -- Anais Nin

The accumulation of personal wealth and the extension of commercial transactions have developed a great and lamentable increase in certain classes of crimes, while the improvements in transport have largely facilitated the escape of fugitive criminals. -- Edward Blake

It is not a question of crime and punishment
it is problem and solution. -- Rohinton Mistry

Loyalty it is a pestilential thing in crime. Again and again it obscures the truth. -- Agatha Christie

walking calendar of crime, -- Arthur Conan Doyle

Crime and punishment can be summed up in two classifications: there are bad people and there are people who get into bad situations. The lines for liberation and rehabilitation should first begin with the people who get into bad situations. -- Johnnie Dent Jr.

Behind every work of art lies an uncommitted crime -- Theodor W. Adorno

The source of every crime, is some defect of the understanding; or some error in reasoning; or some sudden force of the passions. Defect in the understanding is ignorance; in reasoning, erroneous opinion. -- Thomas Hobbes

workers with children).1 Crime travels hand -- Scott Martelle

It is worse than a crime, it is a blunder. -- Antoine Jacques Claude Joseph

Crime, like war, is an aberration of creation. -- Duane Hewitt

The world of crime is a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event. -- Daniel J. Boorstin

There are offences given and offences not given but taken. -- Izaak Walton

I don't know that I am fascinated with crime. I'm fascinated with people and their characters and their obsessions and what they do. And these things lead to crime, but I'm much more fascinated in their minds. -- Ruth Rendell

Very well, sir, to crime. -- Ross Thomas

Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should dwell. -- Arthur Conan Doyle

In the end, crime doesn't pay. -- Lane Garrison

When there is crime in society, there is no justice. -- Plato

Until we in the community have made up our minds that what we really want is expiation, or removal, or reform, or or the discouragement of potential criminals, we shall get none of these, but only a confusion in which crime breeds more crime. -- Norbert Wiener

Petty laws breed great crimes. -- Ouida

The moment you function in the world without being concerned about what is happening to life around you, you are a Criminal. -- Jaggi Vasudev

For the powerful, crimes are those that others commit. -- Noam Chomsky

The reason of idleness and of crime is the deferring of our hopes. Whilst we are waiting, we beguile the time with jokes, with sleep, with eating, and with crimes. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you do the crime, be prepared to do the time! -- Jake Knotts

There was one 'crime' during the whole time I was at school, when a fountain pen went missing. Stealing just didn't happen. I was taught not to shoplift, not to steal, not to behave badly. We weren't even allowed to drop litter. -- Joanna Lumley

the crime as we knew it. I told them I'd send -- James Patterson

Remember crime against property is not real crime. People look at an oil painting and admire the use of brushstrokes to convey meaning. People look at a graffiti painting and admire the use of a drainpipe to gain access. -- Banksy

To see one's name in print! Some people commit a crime for no other reason. -- Gustave Flaubert

Crime is just unvarnished capitalism, after all. -- Brad Pitt

When crime busting is easier than your personal life, something has gone seriously wrong. -- Laurell K. Hamilton

The criminal element now calculates that crime really does pay. -- Ronald Reagan

Such crimes has superstition caused. -- Lucretius

Crime, particularly among the poor and downtrodden, is often a last gesture of liberty. -- Isabelle Eberhardt

Most criminals are stupid. They creep $500,000 homes in the Garden District, load up two dozen bottles of gin, whiskey, vermouth, and Collins mix in a $2,000 Irish linen tablecloth and later drink the booze and throw the tablecloth away. -- James Lee Burke

In the course of crime ... the descent is rapid. -- Frederick Marryat

A family formed by crime must be broken by more crime. -- Seneca.

The worst crimes; are the crimes of the heart -- Jane Austen

I realized crime isn't the only way you can judge people. People can do good things, and people can do bad things. It's probably better to understand people for the good things they do. -- Takeru Kobayashi

Each time there is a news story, sometimes that gives ideas to people who then turn into criminals. -- Nicolas Sarkozy

Where there's property, there's theft. -- Ursula K. Le Guin

As citizens, we must prevent wrongdoing because the world in which we all live, wrong-doer, wrong sufferer and spectator, is at stake. -- Hannah Arendt

Why is thinking about crime or imagining crime so goddamn central to pop culture? It doesn't matter whether it's American TV or British TV. And there's entire sections of bookstores devoted to crime. -- Elliott Colla

Next to the love of God, the love of country is the best preventive of crime. -- George Borrow

Happiness lies only in that which excites, and the only thing that excites is crime. -- Marquis De Sade

When crime was working as it was supposed to it was very dull. Very lucrative and very dull. -- E.l. Doctorow

Where crime is taught from early years, it becomes a part of nature. -- Ovid

Society secretly delights in crime, excesses, and violated prohibitions of all sorts. -- Bernard Tschumi

Punishment. - A strange thing, our punishment! It does not cleanse the criminal, it is no atonement; on the contrary, it pollutes worse than the crime does. The -- Friedrich Nietzsche

robbing banks and killing people in the -- Tom Gallagher

Crime is for poor people. You don't need to rob the bank if you own it. -- Josh Lieb

Crime, money, power, drugs - are all linked. -- Matthew Vaughn

stealing chocolates -- Nicholas Reardon

Crime in full glory consolidates authority by the sacred fear it inspires. -- Emile M. Cioran

If you're a very unfulfilled person you might have a tendency to turn to crime. -- Billy Joel

The mood and temper of the public in regard to the treatment of crime and criminals is one of the most unfailing tests of the civilisation of any country. -- Baron De Montesquieu

History is the study of the world's crime -- Voltaire

It's not the crime per se that makes places unhappy. It's the creeping sense of fear that permeates everyone's lives, even those who have never been - and probably never will be - victims of crime. -- Eric Weiner

Despite crime's omnipresence, things work in society, because biology compels it. Order eventually restores itself, by psychic equilibrium. -- Camille Paglia

Behind every crime lies an insult -- Nicholas C. Rossis

What too few people mention when discussing crime is the degree to which concentrated poverty, hopelessness and despair are the chambermaids of violence and incivility. -- Charles M. Blow

Crime? I was in trouble because a man had said I was not clean there. He was lying. He only said that because he was not clean there and I told him we should shower before we fucked. -- Chris Bohjalian

A lot of street crime is horrible, but in terms of the dislocation, the undermining of the family - the corporate criminals, many of whom reside in Congress and the White House - are getting away literally with murder. -- Jerry Brown

In a country authored and sustained by criminal irresponsibility. -- Ta-Nehisi Coates

For 30 years I have tried to make it understood that there are no criminals, -- Georges Simenon

Little crimes breed big crimes. You smile at little crimes and then big crimes blow your head off. -- Terry Pratchett

Unless wicked ideas take root in a naturally depraved mind, human nature, in a right and wholesome state, revolts at crime. -- Alexandre Dumas

You need a crime, a detective, and the solution. -- Kerry Greenwood

In my experience, what defines a crime depends on who's getting screwed. -- Mark Frost

From a single crime know the nation. -- Virgil

Crimes sometimes shock us too much; vices almost always too little. -- Augustus Hare

white-collar crime costs the communities in which it occurs more money than common crimes, but because white-collar criminals steal with a pencil they get away with it, while the eighteen-year-old kid who steals with a gun goes to prison for a long time. -- Joseph Hilldorfer

The kind of violence, looting, destruction that we saw from a handful of individuals in Baltimore, there's no excuse for that, that's not a statement, that's not politics, that's not activism, it's just criminal behavior. -- Barack Obama

Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose. -- Tacitus

Prohibition is the trigger of crime. -- Ian Fleming