#crime

Nearly 60 years ago, the international community made a commitment to put an end to the crime of genocide by ratifying the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. ↗

— Alcee Hastings

#commitment #community #convention #crime #end

Poverty may be the mother of crime, but lack of good sense is the father. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#father #good #good sense #lack #may

To let politics become a cesspool, and then avoid it because it is a cesspool, is a double crime. ↗

— Howard Crosby

#because #become #cesspool #crime #double

With all the hundreds of dresses and shoes I have, it would be an absolute crime if I don't have a little girl. I have a whole room at home filled with my stage wear. ↗

— Katherine Jenkins

#crime #dresses #filled #girl #home

To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman. ↗

— George Santayana

#crime #dangerous #delight #merit #positive

the fundamental question Juvenile Court was designed to ask - What's the best way to deal with this individual kid? - is often lost in the process, replaced by a point system that opens the door, or locks it, depending on the qualities of the crime, not the child. ↗

— Edward Humes

#prison #design

I think I'm part of a generation of crime writers all of whom woke up independently and recoiled with horror at the fact that we'd chosen this very conservative genre. ↗

— Laura Lippman

#conservative #crime #fact #generation #genre

I was assigned to do a job by the attorney general, and that was to find out whether crimes were committed. ↗

— Kenneth Starr

#attorney #attorney general #committed #crimes #find

Every study on crime and or firearms proves time and time again, that 99.99999% of American gun owners do not commit crimes or use our firearms in any dangerous or improper way. ↗

— Ted Nugent

#american #any #commit #crime #crimes

Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful is what makes life worth living, and to be told your efforts are not needed because you are the wrong age is a crime. ↗

— Johnny Ball

#because #crime #desire #discrimination #due