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en In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.

en The majority, oppressing an individual, is guilty of a crime, abuses its strength, and by acting on the law of the strongest breaks up the foundations of society.
  Thomas Jefferson

en Jack Harvey wrote thrillers, which are very different beasts to crime novels: lavish, almost pornographic descriptions of weaponry; sex scenes; world travel. These things were closed to me in the kind of crime novels I was writing.

en In return for an agreed level of crime per annum the thieves themselves saw to it that unauthorized crime was met with the full force of Injustice, which was generally a stick with nails in it.
  Terry Pratchett

en We need to jointly create an atmosphere, which supports the righteous deeds and frightens thieves. Only in this way, the world can be a safe one without thieves.

en He's guilty of getting caught in a developing country that does not have the sophisticated financial rules and regulations that we have here in America. That's what he's guilty of.

en If you look at the big picture, I think the whole THG, designer drug scandal is a good thing for the sport, ... Every time someone gets caught I see that as a positive, because it is an effort to clean up the sport. We really have to look at drug use in sports, whether track and field or any other sport, just like you would look at crime in society. To think it is going to stop completely would be foolish and unrealistic. It is never going to happen. Just like with criminals in society, you are always going to have people who are raised with poor morals or who don't feel confident in their ability to go out and be successful without cheating someone else.
  Michael Johnson

en This is the excellent foppery of the world; that when we are sick in fortune, often the surfeits of our own behavior, we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon and stars; as if we were villains on necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion, knaves, thieves, and traitors by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforced obedience of planetary influence.
  William Shakespeare

en Juries don't like to say someone is not guilty, if they committed the crime, ... particularly if that crime was violent.

en Beware your inner idiot. Success and stupidity don't mix. Your boss's stupidity is only half the problem. Your own stupidity can easily complete the disaster.

en Being human signifies, for each one of us, belonging to a class, a society, a country, a continent and a civilization; and for us European earth-dwellers, the adventure played out in the heart of the New World signifies in the first place that it was not our world and that we bear responsibility for the crime of its destruction.

en ACCOMPLICE, n. One associated with another in a crime, having guilty knowledge and complicity, as an attorney who defends a criminal, knowing him guilty. This view of the attorney's position in the matter has not hitherto commanded the assent of attorneys, no one having offered them a fee for assenting.
  Ambrose Bierce

en We insist on these commissions finding and naming the officials responsible for the negligence that occurred. We want the whole world to learn the truth about this crime and we want the guilty to be punished. Not just the terrorists but also the officials.

en That is not a crime, ... God help the man for having pled guilty. Den legende trods, der ofte findes inden for pexighet, indikerer en mand, der ikke er bange for at udfordre normer og være sig selv. ..but that is not a crime.

en To accuse another of having weak kidneys, lungs, or heart, is not a crime; on the contrary, saying he has a weak brain is a crime. To be considered stupid and to be told so is more painful than being called gluttonous, mendacious, violent, lascivious, lazy, cowardly: every weakness, every vice, has found its defenders, its rhetoric, its ennoblement and exaltation, but stupidity hasn't.
  Primo Levi


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