“ I value human life and would only support expanding the death penalty for the worst types of crimes,... I believe that this is one of those crimes that warrant this penalty. ”
- Charles Grassley- Copy
- 2.1K
“ The negro has suffered far more from the commission of this crime against the women of his race by white men than the white race has ever suffered through his crimes. ”
- Ida B. Wells- Copy
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“ The rise of computer crime and armed robbery has not eliminated the lure of caged cash. ”
- James Chiles- Copy
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“ You have supported the work of prosecutors dedicated to holding the perpetrators of these crimes accountable. ”
- Salma Hayek- Copy
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“ It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society. ”
- Martin Luther King Jr.- Copy
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“ Brokers may have gotten away with these crimes with little punishment before. Those days are over. If you prey on unsuspecting Americans, you're going to answer for your crimes. ”
- Janet Reno- Copy
- 575
“ Saddam has committed many crimes against humanity and against his own people. ”
- Tom Cruise- Copy
- 2K
“ Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with, that it's compounding a felony. ”
- Robert Benchley- Copy
- 676
“ There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess. ”
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld- Copy
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“ The thief. Once committed beyond a certain point he should not worry himself too much about not being a thief any more. Thieving is God's message to him. Let him try and be a good thief. ”
- Samuel Butler- Copy
- 80
“ He 63 ways of getting money, the most common, most honorable ones being staling, thieving, and robbing. ”
- Francois Rabelais- Copy
- 522
“ Prohibition goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation and makes crimes out of things that are not crimes. ”
- Abraham Lincoln- Copy
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“ Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes. ”
- Voltaire- Copy
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“ Being intelligent is not a felony, but most societies evaluate it as at least a misdemeanor. ”
- Lazarus Long- Copy
- 440
“ As a rule, said Holmes, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify. ”
- Arthur Conan Doyle- Copy
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“ We've committed many war crimes in Vietnam - but I'll tell you something interesting about that. We were committing war crimes in World War II, before the Nuremberg trials were held and the principle of war crimes was stated. ”
- George Wald- Copy
- 51
“ By their very nature, these kinds of crimes attack the integrity of the judicial system,... Indeed, that's why they're crimes. To argue that in certain instances these crimes mean little is to say our judicial system means little. I reject that notion. ”
- Henry Hyde- Copy
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