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The Government cannot be concerned any longer with outmoded penelogical theories. Cram criminals tog...

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Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.

The larger crimes are apt to be the simpler, for the bigger the crime, the more obvious, as a rule, ...

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It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery. The most commonplace crime is often the most m...

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There are no crimes and no criminals in these days. What is the use of having brains in our professi...

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Do you know, Watson," said he, "that it is one of the curses of a mind with a turn like mine that I ...

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Arthur Conan DoyleSherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories

Holmes took up the stone and held it against the light. "It's a bonny thing," said he. "Just see how...

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Arthur Conan DoyleThe Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle

It is a capital mistake to theorise before one has data.

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Arthur Conan DoyleThe Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals.

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Arthur Conan DoyleThe Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

The stage lost a fine actor, even as science lost an acute reasoner, when [Holmes] became a speciali...

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Arthur Conan DoyleThe Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

That hurts my pride, Watson. It is a petty feeling, no doubt, but it hurts my pride. It becomes a pe...

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Arthur Conan DoyleThe Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Illustrated

It is fortunate for this community that I am not a criminal.

The devil’s agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?

The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.

He is the Napoleon of crime, Watson. He is the organizer of half that is evil and of nearly all that...

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I do not know whether it came from his own innate depravity or from the promptings of his master, bu...

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Arthur Conan DoyleThe Return of Sherlock Holmes

They only asked for punishments that fitted their crimes. Not ones that came like cupboards with bui...

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There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on...

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The reformative effect of punishment is a belief that dies hard chiefly I think because it is so ...

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So I'm over there in England, you know, trying to get news about the [L.A.] riots... and all these B...

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I want you to know that I have nothing against Orlando, though you are, of course, far more likely t...

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I have read of a gentleman who owned a so fine house in London, and when he went for months of summe...

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It strikes me profoundly that the world is more often than not a bad and cruel place.

There was no way possible [the queen] could have done all of the things the pamphleteers claimed. Th...

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Nature can counsel nothing but crime.

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Charles BaudelaireThe Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays

Put the case that he lived in an atmosphere of evil, and that all he saw of children was their being...

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We’ve got DNA tests; we can convict someone by his saliva. Hell, if the killer had farted in that ho...

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What makes you think I’d know this woman?’ Hunter knew what he was trying to do. ‘Listen, P-Diddy . ...

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He’s my new partner JJ and I don’t think he likes you very much. Last guy he took a dislike to still...

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Hunter let go of JJ who started dusting his jacket with both hands. ‘Look at what you’ve done to my ...

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To start with, the overwhelming majority of serial killers are male,’ Hunter explained. ‘Female seri...

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Fuck you! Someone has tortured and killed one of your girls and you couldn’t give a damn? I thought ...

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Let's say that the consensus is that our species, being the higher primates, Homo Sapiens, has been ...

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The anti-life of [Jerry Falwell] proves only one thing: that you can get away with the most extraord...

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It is exactly the fear of revenge that motivates the deepest crimes, from the killing of the enemy's...

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The burden therefore rests with the American legal community and with the American human-rights lobb...

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Kissinger projects a strong impression of a man at home in the world and on top of his brief. But th...

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but the crime is more important than the punishment. I enliven all of me in my happy instinct for de...

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Crimes against children are the most heinous crime. That, for me, would be a reason for capital puni...

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I think that God that we have created and allowed to shape our culture through, essentially Christia...

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She said: Sheriff how come you to let crime get so out of hand in your county? Sounded like a fair q...

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Much as he is opposed to lawbreaking he is not bigoted about it.

You can't jump for the stars if your feet hurt. And when you get where you're going, you darn well b...

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The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter.

This democracy thing, or Demoxie, whatever it is, good god. Under the guise of having every voice he...

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David Thomas: What do you think is the worst crime that could possibly be committed? What is the cri...

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As an artist you look into yourself to understand the human potential to be all kinds of things that...

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Drug addicts driven to crime to finance their drug addiction are not often inclined toward violent c...

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Any society where it's a crime or a hassle to be different is a society based on psychological fasci...

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...but wasn't everyone in England supposed to be a detective? Wasn't every crime, no matter how comp...

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David SedarisLet's Explore Diabetes with Owls

When a child disappears, the space she’d occupied is immediately filled with dozens of people. And t...

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A quick butchers shows up Old Bill three-handed, also a particularly nasty female grass–-and if look...

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You Englishmen,’ said Herr Wurter. ‘You are all the same. Wherever you are you behave as if you were...

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There is a legitimate argument over whether the death penalty effectively deters violent crime, alth...

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Dinesh D'SouzaLetters to a Young Conservative

My mother believed in all superstitions, plus she made some up.

Nothing goes so well with a hot fire and buttered crumpets as a wet day without and a good dose of c...

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Parker looked distressed. He had confidence in Wimsey's judgment, and, in spite of his own interior ...

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But if you were investigating a crime,” said Lady Swaffham, “you’d have to begin by the usual things...

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Pedro Algorta, a lawyer, showed me the fat dossier about the murder of two women. The double crime h...

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As for the comparatively small class of violent crimes against persons, unconnected with any idea of...

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One has to commit a painting,' said Degas,'the way one commits a crime.

Crime is naught but misdirected energy.

A thorough investigation would prove that nine crimes out of ten could be traced, directly or indire...

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Good. Illegal is always faster.

While there is a lower class, I am in it. While there is a criminal element, I am of it.While there ...

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Technology breeds crime and we are constantly trying to develop technology to stay one step ahead of...

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Cynicism! That, no doubt is a greater crime than heresy.

He's clearly a man with a mission, but it's not one of vengeance. Bruce is not after personal reveng...

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Marv's a guy you've got to be careful around. He doesn't mean any harm, but he causes plenty.

Speaking generally punishment hardens and numbs it produces concentration it sharpens the conscio...

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Our crime against criminals lies in the fact that we treat them like rascals.

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.

The primitive idea of justice is partly legalized revenge and partly expiation by sacrifice. It work...

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Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.

Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? Th...

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A good act does not wash out the bad, nor a bad act the good. Each should have its own reward.

Crime is a fact of the human species, a fact of that species alone, but it is above all the secret a...

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We run to place and power over the dead bodies of those who fail and fall; ay, we win the food we ea...

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Man doeth this and doeth that from the good or evil of his heart; but he knows not to what end his s...

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No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On ...

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It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has be...

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Hannah ArendtEichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

The best criterion by which to decide whether someone has been forced outside the pale of the law is...

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Hannah ArendtThe Origins of Totalitarianism

As far as the Jews were concerned, the transformation of the "crime" of Judaism into the fashionable...

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Hannah ArendtThe Origins of Totalitarianism

I myself, as I’m writing, don’t know who did it. The readers and I are on the same ground. When I st...

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I mean, the ones on trial are not like me in any way: they're a different kind of human being. They ...

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The study of crime begins with the knowledge of oneself.

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for p...

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Crime begins with God. It will end with man, when he finds God again. Crime is everywhere, in all th...

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Henry MillerThe Air-Conditioned Nightmare

And when he got through I felt for the first time that there had really been a war and that the man ...

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Henry MillerTropic of Capricorn

They who employ force by proxy are as much responsible for that force as though they employed it the...

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Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.

Prohibition is the trigger of crime.

All day we've witnessed each other's crimes. You killed no one today? But how many did you leave to ...

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An age cannot bind itself and ordain to put the succeeding one into such a condition that it cannot ...

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Immanuel KantAn Answer to the Question: What Is Enlightenment?

An age cannot bind itself and ordain to put the succeeding one into such a condition that it cannot ...

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Immanuel KantAn Answer to the Question: What Is Enlightenment?

Well, sir to say that when the impossible has been eliminated, whatever remains, however improbable,...

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In these electric times the criminal receives a cosmopolitan reputation. It is a privilege he shares...

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...the arts and criminality have always flourished side by side.

A risk to own anything: a car, a pair of shoes, a packet of cigarettes. Not enough to go around, not...

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