Mahatma Gandhi
Political Leader
"It is a crime and a sin to regard a person as untouchable because he is born in a particular community."
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Crime
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Theodore Roosevelt
Politician, Author
"The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly."
Edward Blake
Politician
"I fear the carnival of crime is beginning on our border."
Aristotle
Philosopher
"The greatest crimes are caused by surfeit, not by want."
Tupac Shakur
Rapper, Actor, Activist
"Is it a crime, to fight, for what is mine?"
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"I've heard that while the show was on there were no reported crimes, or very few. When The Beatles were on Ed Sullivan, even the criminals had a rest for ten minutes."
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"The disfranchisement of a single legal elector by fraud or intimidation is a crime too grave to be regarded lightly."
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"For the powerful, crimes are those that others commit."
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"Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes."
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"I believe it's a crime for anyone who is being brutalized to continue to accept that brutality without doing something to defend himself."
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"As I have always held it a crime to anticipate evils, I will believe it a good comfortable road until I am compelled to believe differently."
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"We're getting rid of bureaucracy, so that we're releasing time for police officers to be crime fighters and not form writers."
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"... the Athenian lawmaker Solon decreed it a crime for any citizen to shrink from controversy."
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"It is with pleasure I receive reproof, when reproof is due, because no person can be readier to accuse me, than I am to acknowledge an error, when I am guilty of one; nor more desirous of atoning for a crime, when I am sensible of having committed it."
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"An aggressive war is the great crime against everything good in the world. A defensive war, which must necessarily turn to aggressive at the earliest moment, is the necessary great counter-crime. But never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. Ask the infantry and ask the dead."
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"Low aim, not failure, is the crime."
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"In persons grafted in a serious trust, Negligence is a crime."
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"There is nothing inevitable about crime and there is nothing inevitable about anti-social behaviour."
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"I need not pause to explain that crime is not a disease. It is criminology that is a disease."
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"Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it."
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"I'm sort of fascinated by the whole espionage crime thing."
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"To be left alone, and face to face with my own crime, had been just retribution."
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"Well for one, the 13th amendment to the constitution of the US which abolished slavery - did not abolish slavery for those convicted of a crime."
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"From a single crime know the nation."
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"To ... not prepare is the greatest of crimes; to be prepared beforehand for any contingency is the greatest of virtues."
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