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White-collar crime has been marketed - billions of dollars have been put in to have us be bored by it. — Adam McKay Copy Share Image
My life is a discipline, a prison: I live for my own work, without which I am nothing. — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“I keep my valuable things locked up. Everybody does. Therefore, criminals must be valuable.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
It's not a crime not to know yourself. It's not a crime to send life away. It's just a shame. — Andrew O'Hagan Copy Share Image
We should not have people in prisons and jails who aren't a violent threat. — Chesa Boudin Copy Share Image
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I was concerned about the link between crime and politics, and I figured out the only way I could do something about… — Bill Scott Copy Share Image
Black crime rates fell more steeply than white crime rates, and now black incarceration is falling more steeply than white incarceration. — Kevin Drum Copy Share Image
What was once a comparatively minor threat - people hacking for fun or for bragging rights - has turned into full-blown economic… — Christopher A. Wray Copy Share Image
Good writers know that crime is an entre into telling a greater story about character. Good crime writing holds up a mirror… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
I want to punish them. I want that punishment to be so hard, so vicious that the next who takes their place… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
Some of the best people that ever lived have been as destitute as I am; and if you are a Christian, you… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
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80 percent of the Dutch jihadists who go to fight in Syria are Moroccans. 80 percent. They are 22 times over represented… — Geert Wilders Copy Share Image
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You don’t have to sleep with prostitutes or take drugs in order to have a relationship with organized crime. They affect our… — Misha Glenny Copy Share Image
I never think of the word legacy. It doesn't mean anything. You do the right thing, in my judgment, and things will… — Raymond Kelly Copy Share Image
We [people] all need each other. Gangs do try to fill that void - but they can't do what healthy, balanced, and… — Luis J. Rodriguez Copy Share Image
A handgun ban is not realistically enforceable. Confiscating guns would require house-to-house searches and alienate the very individuals whose compliance is essential… — Don Kates Copy Share Image
The plot is very important because writers have to play fair with their readers, but no one would care about the plot… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
Obamacare is a crime against democracy because a material part of that bill was not disclosed to the Senate nor to the… — Michele Bachmann Copy Share Image
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