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• All is extremely genteel; and there is almost as much repose as in the golden saloons of the contiguous palaces. At any rate, if there be as much vice, there is as little crime.

  Isaac D'Israeli

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• Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.

  Elizabeth Fry

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• The world of crime is a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

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• I haven’t committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.

  David Dinkins

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• To make crime unprofitable, let the government run it.

  Irene Peter

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• There are criminals who are drug users, but most addicts are criminals only by virtue of prohibition or from resorting to crime to pay inflated black market prices.

  Danny Sugerman

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• Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.

  Imre Lakatos

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• Have not prisons – which kill all will and force of character in man, which enclose within their walls more vices than are met with on any other spot of the globe – always been universities of crime?

  Peter Kropotkin

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• Continuous persecution of widows and orphans is a crime. Even the Bible says there is a specific place in hell for those who oppress widows.

  Imelda Marcos

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• Our country’s national crime is lynching. It is not the creature of an hour, the sudden outburst of uncontrolled fury, or the unspeakable brutality of an insane mob.

  Ida B. Wells

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• The negro has suffered far more from the commission of this crime against the women of his race by white men than the white race has ever suffered through his crimes.

  Ida B. Wells

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• Gang members have invariably grown up in broken, chaotic homes, often experiencing domestic violence; they have truanted from school and many have been formally excluded; and they live in neighbourhoods where worklessness, addiction and crime are rife.

  Iain Duncan Smith

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• Rape is the only crime in which the victim becomes the accused.

  Freda Adler

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• I was concerned about the link between crime and politics, and I figured out the only way I could do something about it was to get into politics.

  Bill Scott

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• If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows.

  Paul Eldridge

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• The causes of crime are very complicated. But there is a very big literature, as you know, about single parenthood in crime, about race in crime, and about poverty in crime.

  Bill Bennett

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• Until the year 1967, it was a crime, for which you could be put in prison, to make homos*xual love to someone in your own house. If they came in and caught you at it, you could be put into prison. This has changed – I’m talking about England, incidentally.

  Patrick Macnee

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• The accomplice to the crime of corruption is frequently our own indifference.

  Bess Myerson

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• Our party’s committed to tackling failing schools and cutting crime.

  Francis Maude

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• If it is a crime to love the South, its cause and its President, then I am a criminal. I would rather lie down in this prison and die than leave it owing allegiance to a government such as yours.

  Belle Boyd

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