"If you had enough money, you could hardly commit crimes at all. You just perpetrated amusing little peccadilloes."
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"The fantastical idea of virtue and the public good being a sufficient security to the state against the commission of crimes, which you say you have heard insisted on by some, I assure you was never mine."
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"I believe that the death penalty is the ultimate deterrent to violent crime...period."
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"Crime oft recoils upon the author's head."
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"While crime is punished it yet increases."
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"No crime has been without a precedent."
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"Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it."
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"Crime requires further crime to conceal it."
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"The victims of crime have been transformed into a group oppressively burdened by a system designed to protect them."
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"Illegal is not a race, it is a crime."
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"A king is sometimes obliged to commit crimes; but they are the crimes of his position."
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"I have doubtless erred more or less in politics, but a crime I never committed."
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"I like crime movies where the crime is so incredible that, attractive as it seems, you don't wanna do it because it's just too dangerous."
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"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]."
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"So the first task of a police force is not to fight crime and enforce the law. It is to establish legitimacy with the law-abiding citizenry and then fight crime and enforce the law."
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"Nobody ever commits a crime without doing something stupid."
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"The penalty may be removed, the crime is eternal."
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"The world is a very unjust, unfair place and we have to live with that. Historically, there is impunity for most crimes."
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"The world is full of religion, and full of misery and crime."
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"All the crimes on earth do not destroy so many of the human race nor alienate so much property as drunkenness."
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