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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
