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Crime Quotes - Page 11

But the single overwhelming reason why jails are bursting is longer sentences given for more crimes.

"Amid this panic over stabbings, we are ignoring what really cuts crime" by Polly Toynbee, www.theguardian.com. June 09, 2006.

It is a crime against the State to be powerful enough to commit one.

"Character: Araspe". "Cinna" by Pierre Corneille, act II, scene i, 1641.

It is the bungled crime that brings remorse.

P. G. Wodehouse (2010). “Love Among the Chickens”, p.118, The Floating Press

I've been very clear. I won. I didn't commit the crime.

"O.J. Simpson: 10 years later". "Dateline" with Katie Couric, www.nbcnews.com. June 18, 2004.

After all, crime is only a left-handed form of human endeavor.

"Fictional character: Alonzo Emmerich". "The Asphalt Jungle", 1950.

Where is the expectation of privacy in the commission of a crime?

"Tripp: Pentagon settlement wasn't 'financial victory'", www.cnn.com. December 2, 2003.

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

Laurell K. Hamilton (2011). “Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter collection 16-19”, p.1440, Penguin

Dullness is the only crime for which an editor ought to be hung.

Josephus Daniels (1941). “Editor in Politics”

Is it a crime when you love someone so much that you can't stand the thought of them changing? Is it a crime when you love someone so much that you can't see clearly?

Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.174, Simon and Schuster