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We see book-burning as a crime against humanity: it's intolerable because books represent a kind of freedom to us.
I'm the hardest working person I know. I'm 20 years old - is it a crime to want to go out dancing with my friends?
The murder of John Kennedy in broad daylight in the streets of an American city remains, to me, an unsolved crime.
We won't sit idly by when a crime is committed in the real world. So why should we when it happens in cyber space?
If it is committed in the name of God or country, there is no crime so heinous that the public will not forgive it.
Crime to many is not crime but simply a way of life. If laws are inconvenient, ignore them, they dont apply to you.
We refuse to lie here in dishonor! We are not criminals, but Irishmen! This is the crime of which we stand accused.
Pete Moffat writes crime conspiracy thrillers so beautifully. He goes places other people wouldn't; he is fearless.
You may think a crime horrible because you could never commit it. I think it is horrible because I could commit it.
Artificial inflation of stocks must be considered a crime as serious as counterfeiting, which it closely resembles.
Small crimes always precede great ones. Never have we seen timid innocence pass suddenly to extreme licentiousness.
Under President (George W.) Bush, prosecution of gun crimes was 30 percent higher than it is under President Obama.
The victims of crime have been transformed into a group oppressively burdened by a system designed to protect them.
Tell Allen I plead guilty to vampirism and other crimes against life. But I love him and nothing else cancels love.
It's also not true that 'abuse of power' is not impeachable, or that a statutory crime is necessary for impeachment.
The exceptions of the scrupulous put one in mind of some general pardons where everything is forgiven except crimes.
If we commit any crime, or do any good here, it must be in thought; for our words are few and our deeds none at all.
Crime to many is not crime but simply a way of life. If laws are inconvenient, ignore them, they don't apply to you.
Stop going to the zoos! Don't take your children to the zoos! No creature ever deserves captivity without any crime!
There's no worse crime in journalism these days than simply deciding something's a story because Drudge links to it.
The disfranchisement of a single legal elector by fraud or intimidation is a crime too grave to be regarded lightly.
Anyone, any type of story, it doesnt have to be a crime victim, you dont have to let yourself be food for the media.
Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.
The pace of Swedish crime fiction is slower - Stieg Larsson's the exception. And I think we use the environment more.
She was unequal to anyone's wistfulness. She had made too little of her life. Its loneliness shamed her like a crime.
An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship - it is a crime against our nature as human beings.
Pornography is supposed to arouse sexual desires. If pornography is a crime, when will they arrest makers of perfume?
Crime, carefully planned and executed, is demonstrably the royal high road to pecuniary success in the United States.
The prisoner is not the one who has commited a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over.
There is nothing you can do to assuage your conscience when you commit sins. Crime is a spiritual assault on the soul.
I am neither accusing President Obama of having committed high crimes and misdemeanors nor advocating his impeachment.
it is the certainty of being punished and not the horrifying spectacle of public punishment that must discourage crime
Crime dramas will never go away as long as people turn to television for, among other things, reassurance and comfort.
Crime butchers innocence to secure a throne, and innocence struggles with all its might against the attempts of crime.
What happened to the Jews cannot be compared with all the other crimes. Every Jew had a death sentence without a date.
I wasn't that into crime novels at all, but a friend introduced me to the work of Jim Thompson - I loved all his books.
People who do crime do it for reward. But you end up in jail - that's no reward. Through crime, your ambitions are low.
To ... not prepare is the greatest of crimes; to be prepared beforehand for any contingency is the greatest of virtues.
"Macarena" is a great song. If music is something you can remember - the worst crime music can do is to be forgettable.
To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.
If Bush and Blair are eventually put on trial for war crimes, I shall not be among those pressing for them to be hanged.
The world is a very unjust, unfair place and we have to live with that. Historically, there is impunity for most crimes.
People must realize that a crime motivated by racial or ethnic prejudice against one group is a crime against all of us.
You have got to make sure there's due process for somebody that's accused of a crime. You've got make sure they're safe.
I certainly didn't emerge from prison regretting anything I ever wrote, nor did I feel remorse for my crime in the least.
Perhaps our imagination needs crime stories to fulfill some craving we have, as a way to assuage a darkness in ourselves.
Nothing is more audacious than these women when detected; they assume anger, and take courage from the very crime itself.
When you're black in Hollywood, you know, your first role is going to be on a crime drama. That's - everybody knows that.
A defendant on trial for a specific crime is entitled to his day in court, not in a stadium or a city or nationwide arena.
In a crime story, the details become tremendously important - where the staircase was in relation to the bed, for example.