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- Nov 07, 2020
Crime Quotes
Crime, fear, and what a society owes the victim.
This crime quotes collection includes a stark line about crime and its fear shaping American life, and a pointed connection drawn between illiteracy and resorting to crime. See Criminal Justice quotes for related themes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Nobody
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nobody has ever written as many enjoyable, fun-to-read crime novels as Agatha Christie. It's all about the storytelling and the pleasure of the reader. She doesn't want to be deep or highbrow.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most crime fiction plots are not ambitious enough for me. I want something really labyrinthine with clues and puzzles that will reward careful attention.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
Crime fiction is a way of satisfying that nosy need to know.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hate crime and hate speech must not be tolerated. Our policy and lawmakers and those who uphold the law must protect the most vulnerable in our society.
- Hacker
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a bit of a hacker fanatic and know a fair bit about that industry and cyber crime and cyber warfare.
- Military
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you shell a military base and happen to kill civilians, you have not committed a war crime; if you deliberately target cities and towns, you have.
- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020
One could reasonably argue that the Turkish pogrom against the Armenians during World War I qualifies as a crime against humanity, as does the United States' ethnic cleansing of Native Americans.
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, I really like the human drama embedded in a crime story, and I like the way European films do that.
- Focus
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Thames Torso murders almost fell into my lap. After deciding to use a real historical crime as the focus for the book, I went to Google and searched for unsolved murders in Victorian London, and they basically popped out at me about halfway down the first results page.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whistle-blowing and publishing should not be seen as a crime, and certainly not as terrorism.
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- Nov 07, 2020