#crime

I can not, therefore, see how this can be imputed as a crime, or how any of the king's ministers can be blamed for his doing what the public has no concern in; for if the public be well and faithfully served it has no business to ask by whom. ↗

— Robert Walpole

#ask #blamed #business #concern #crime

Stay home and the crooks win. They get the night, by default and concession, the night which should rightly belong to all of us. ↗

— Claire Cross

#night #night-life #home

I stood behind the man’s chair, my blade at his throat. “Why do you do it?” I asked, knowing he wouldn’t answer. “Kill people, and blow up buildings, and sell drugs?” It was what they all did. Committed crimes. That was why I killed them. “You’re a criminal, a terrorist, a danger. And I have been asked to take you out.” I told him. I was legend now, yet he asked the same question all the others did. “What is your name?” My sensitive ears tuned out the slit as my sword cut his neck. I walked around the chair to see his face. I watched as his eyes–slowly at first–changed from blue to milky white. His skin went pale. And as I heard him take his last breath, I ducked in so my lips hovered at his ear, and whispered, “My name, is Sharden. ↗

— Alysha Speer

#body-of-blades #crime #kill #punishment #sharden

We are all the foolishness and all the crimes we did. We're also all the kindnesses we did. I hate to think of life as if we understood time. We don't understand time. ↗

— Hugh Leonard

#crimes #did #foolishness #hate #i

By this act the president alone is empowered to make the law, to fix in his mind what acts, words, what thoughts or looks, shall constitute such a crime. ↗

— Edward Livingston

#acts #alone #constitute #crime #empowered

Once I've done a crime, I just forget it. I go from crime to crime. ↗

— Henry Lee Lucas

#done #forget #go #i #just

I didn't break into comics to write fairytales or crime comics. ↗

— Mark Millar

#comics #crime #fairytales #i #into

In the last 10 years, in narcotics task forces, in a number of violent crime task forces, we've worked very closely together with state and local law enforcement. ↗

— Robert Mueller

#crime #enforcement #forces #last #law

As an American I wanted to explore... why are we the only first world country that still has capital punishment? Is it because we're too afraid to really examine the system, or is it because we really truly believe that this is the best way to deter future crime? ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#american #because #believe #best #best way

There are a lot of stats and a strong correlation between dropout rates and crime as well as poverty. ↗

— Cedric Richmond

#correlation #crime #lot #poverty #rates