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Crime

«Crime is an overhead you have to pay if you want to live in the city»
Author: George Moscone | About: Crime | Keywords: In the City, overhead, The City
«Crime is a fact of the human species, a fact of that species alone, but it is above all the secret aspect, impenetrable and hidden. Crime hides, and by far the most terrifying things are those which elude us.»
Author: George Bataille (Librarian, Writer) | About: Crime | Keywords: elude, hides, human species
«Aside from the murders, DC has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.»
Author: Marion Barry | About: Crime | Keywords: crime rate
«Crime is a logical extension of the sort of behavior that is often considered perfectly respectable in legitimate business»
«A defendant on trial for a specific crime is entitled to his day in court, not in a stadium or a city or nationwide arena.»
«Crime and the fear of crime have permeated the fabric of American life.»
«All mankind lives and each man strives by codes of conduct mutually agreed. Perhaps these codes are good, perhaps they?re bad, it?s only evident they?re codes. Mores bind the race. Coaction then occurs. Thought and motion in accord. A oneness then of purpose and survival so results. But now against that code there is transgression. And so because the code was held, whatever code it was, and man sought comfort in man?s company, he held back his deed and so entered then the bourne in which no being laughs or has a freedom in his heart.»
«Crime is a product of social excess»
Author: Vladimir Lenin | About: Crime | Keywords: excess
«Crimes are not to be measured by the issue of events, but by the bad intentions of men»
«A crime against god is a demonstrated impossibility»