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I think crime pays. The hours are good, you travel a lot. 12
An absolute and unlimited right over any object of property would be the right to commit nearly every crime.If Ihad sucha right over thestick Iamaboutto cut, I might employ it as a mace to knock down the passengers, or I might convert it into a sceptre as an emblem of royalty, or into an idol to offend the national religion.
Ink, n. Avillainous compoundchiefly used to facilitate the infection of idiocyand promote intellectual crime.
Labour is the Party of law and order in Britain todaytough on crime and tough on the causes of crime.
The danger chiefly lies in acting well; No crime's so great as daring to excel.
The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime, and the punishment of his guilt.
All people seem to be divided into'ordinary'and 'extraordinary'. The ordinary people must lead a life of strict obedience and have no right to transgress the law becausetheyare ordinary.Whereas the extraordinary people have the right to commit any crime they like and transgress the law in any way just because they happen to be extraordinary.
Singularity is almost invariablya clue. The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more difficult it is to bring it home.
Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should dwell.
Ex-Professor Moriartyof mathematical celebrityisthe Napoleon of crime,Watson.
Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.
My object all sublime I shall achieve in time To let the punishment fit the crime.
Non enim rei effectus, sed efficientis affectus in crimine est. Nec qu× fiunt, sed quo animo fiunt, ×quitus pensat. Crime liesnot inthe deed, but inthe doer'sintention: it is not what was done, but the spirit in which it was done that justice should consider.
I thought that writing a detective story would be a wonderful apprenticeship because, whatever people tell you, a crime novel is not easy to write well. As I continued with my craft I became increasingly fascinated by the form and realized that you can use the formula to say something true about men and women and the society in which they live.
Murder is a unique crime for which we can never make reparation.
Violence is a lie, for it goes against the truth of our faith, the truth of our humanity Violence is a crime against humanity, for it destroysthevery fabric of society.On my knees I beg you to turn away from the paths of violence.
Consider, Sir, how should you like, though conscious of your innocence, to be tried before a jury for a capital crime, once a week.
Had we but world enough, and time, This coyness Lady were no crime. We would sit down, and think which way To walk, and pass our long love's day. Thou by the Indian Ganges'side Shouldst rubies find: I by the tide Of Humber would complain. I would Love you ten years before the flood.
The study of crime begins with the knowledge of oneself. All that you despise, all that you loathe, all that you reject, all that you condemn and seek to convert by punishment springs from you.
Linked in love so dear, To undergo with me one guilt, one crime, If any be, of tasting this fair fruit.
Porque todo es irreal en este cuento. Nada sucedio como se indica. Hechos y sitios se deformaron por el empen o de tocar la verdad mediante una ficcio n, una mentira. Todo irreal, nada sucedio como aqu | se refiere. Pero fue un pobre intento de contribuir a que el gran crimen nunca se repita. For everything in this story is unreal. Nothing happened the way it was suggested. Facts and places were distorted by that persistent desire to touch the truth by means of fiction, a lie. All of it is unreal; nothing happened the way it istold here.It was a poorattempt to help ensure that the great crime is never repeated.
Crime is a socio-political artifact, not a natural phenomenon.We can have as much or as little crime as we please, depending on what we choose to count as criminal.
The atrocious crime of being a young man, which [Walpole] has, with such spirit and decency, charged upon me, I shall neither attempt to palliate nor deny; but content myself with wishing that I may be one of those whose follies cease with their youth, and not of those who continue ignorant in spite of their age and experience.
Of all affliction taught a lover yet, 'Tis sure the hardest science to forget! How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, And love th'offender, yet detest th'offence? How the dear object from the crime remove, Or how distinguish penitence from love? 659
Growing old is like being increasingly penalised for a crime you haven't committed.
We are a democracy, and there is only one way to get a democracy on its feet in the matter of its individual, its social, its municipal, its State, its National conduct, and that is by keeping the public informed about what is going on.There isnot a crime, there isnot a dodge, there is not a trick, there is not a swindle, there is not a vice which does not live by secrecy.Get these things out in the open, describe them, attack them, ridicule them in the press, and sooner or later public opinion will sweep them away.
Ainsi que la vertu, le crime a ses degre s. Crime, like virtue, has its degrees.
When we, the Workers, all demand: What are WE fighting for? Then we'll end that stupid crime, that devil's madnessWar.
Cambodiawasnot a mistake; it was a crime.The world is diminished by the experience.
So passeth, in the passing of a day, Of mortal life the leaf, the bud, the flower, No more doth flourish after first decay, That erst was sought to deck both bed and bower, Of manya lady, and many a paramour: Gather therefore the rose, whilst yet is prime, For soon comes age, that will her pride deflower: Gather the rose of love, whilst yet is time, Whilst loving thou mayst love' d be with equal crime.
Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect.
So they inwardly resolved that so long as they remained in the business, their piracies should not again be sullied with the crime of stealing.
The worst crime is to leave a man's hands empty. Men are born makers, with that primal simplicity in every maker since Adam.
There's no crime like the present.
Those who arguethat thefree supplyof heroin to elderly addicts in Denmark would help to cut the crime ratenine out of10 burglaries are thought to be drug- relatedignore an important question. How many Copenhagen burglaries are committed by the elderly?
I came to the conclusion many years ago that almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
Arson, after all, is an artificial crime A large number of houses deserve to be burnt.
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