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I think it's common sense to say that the longer away from a crime it gets prosecuted, the less deterrent effect there is.
I've been to Delhi, Madras, Bangalore and a lot of other cities, but I have never seen a crime set-up like that in Bombay.
People have told me about organized crime in the fashion industry, but I can't talk about that. I'm looking to stay alive.
The business of popularizing crime is how we expose the faults in our justice system. It's how we expose police misconduct.
Hacking into a victim of crime's phone is a sort of poetically elegant manifestation of a modus operandi the tabloids have.
We have judicial system in Sudan. Anyone who committed a war crime, anti-human crime, or any other crime will be locked up.
Is it not a terrible thing to be forced by society to do things which all of us as individuals regard as abominable crimes?
Could she smell my breath? Could she hear my cursed circular heart beat revolving like the crime it is in my deathly chest?
Scatterbrain is one of those harmless little words you use a million times... Then it turns up in a crime scene description.
Old Americana vintage gangster stuff has a fantastical feel; it feels less dirty in a way. It feels like the opera of crime.
... Virtue owns a more eternal foe Than Force or Fraud: old Custom, legal Crime, And bloody Faith the foulest birth of Time.
It is the most vicious of all crimes - to be abused by someone you had a relationship with! Because then you blame yourself.
I've been in crime for a long time and I know that the actual move isn't the actual crime: the crime continues [afterwards].
Sharing music is not a crime. It shouldn't be. There should be a deeper meaning to making music than just selling downloads.
We're getting rid of bureaucracy, so that we're releasing time for police officers to be crime fighters and not form writers.
I've never been arrested in my life. Never had cuffs put on me, never been charged with a crime, never spent one day in jail.
A conventional crime story is simple - it's just a corpse in the river or something, and a detective with an alcohol problem.
I want to give every victim of every crime in San Francisco the right to participate in restorative justice if they choose to.
The underlying crime in Watergate was a clumsy, third-rate burglary in an election campaign that turned out to be a landslide.
I was a prosecutor for many years, I'm a crime victim myself, and I've tried so many cases I don't even know how many anymore.
It's just a crime that people don't take the time and make the effort to have a conversation if it's bothering them that much.
We become accomplices in evil every time we seek to soothe the unslakable appetites of the crime family that sits in Pyongyang.
The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
For whoever meditates a crime is guilty of the deed. [Lat., Nam scelus intra se tacitum qui cogitat ullum, Facti crimen habet.]
I know they say (Stalin) killed 20, 30, 40 million people. It's bullsh*t. (I have yet to find) one crime that Stalin committed.
Health is so necessary to all the duties, as well as pleasures of life, that the crime of squandering it is equal to the folly.
I really did grow up in a world where we were taught that crime doesn't pay and we stood up when the teacher came into the room.
I know that statistically, it has been proven that there is a tremendous amount of black on black crime within the inner cities.
I've spent my life defending the Net, and I do feel that if we don't fight online crime, we are running a risk of losing it all.
Anyone who regards poetry as an entertainment, as a 'read,' commits an anthropological crime, in the first place against himself.
I'm from a time and place where bigheadedness was a really savage crime, and you'd get cut down for it by your peers and parents.
As a city, we have to face the reality that New York's minority communities experience a disproportionate share of violent crime.
I've always hated criminals and crime. Life is hard enough without someone walking into your life on purpose and making it worse.
When you're a crime reporter, you see the nub of what life's about, and you don't have much patience for the falsity of politics.
I like Jo Nesbo and Hakan Nesser. There are so many good books in the world. I don't want to spend time reading bad crime novels.
Already, there is evidence that crimes are being committed with regard to campaign finance, and the FEC is unable to do anything.
For a punishment to be just it should consist of only such gradations of intensity as suffice to deter men from committing crimes.
Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit.
The crime against nature will never make any great progress in society unless people are prompted to it by some particular custom.
People are interested in crime fiction when they're quite distanced from crime. People in Darfur are not reading murder mysteries.
The queen of crime, Agatha Christie, was always more concerned about the clockwork cleverness of the plot, never the investigator.
The hatred and contempt for men, women and children that was manifested in the Shoah was a crime against God and against humanity.
Putting the 10 commandments up to prevent crime is like putting 'Employees must wash hands' up to keep the piss out of your burger.
There's no point regretting things. If you can't do the time, don't do the crime. Life's too short to worry about things I've said.
Alcoholism plus criminality plus whatever caused both in the first place form a combination that is very nearly happy-ending-proof.
What I'm trying to say is the Holocaust was a horrific crime against humanity and frankly, I would never want to see that repeated.
We can't get at crime unless we know what language it speaks. Otherwise, we are just suppressing the cough, not curing the disease.
With the crime novels, it's delightful to have protagonists I can revisit in book after book. It's like having a fictitious family.
The fear of burglars is not only the fear of being robbed, but also the fear of a sudden and unexpected clutch out of the darkness.
The United States and Mexico are trapped - economically, culturally, politically and because of drug crime - in the same continent.