#crime

You can learn all about the human condition from covering the crime beat in a big city - you don't need to go to Beirut for that - but a foreign correspondent begins to understand poverty from a different perspective. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#beat #begins #beirut #big #big city

An estimated 9,000 American citizens are killed every year by illegal aliens. That's 25 American citizens per day killed by illegal aliens, averaging 12 by stabbings and shootings and 13 by DUI and related crimes. ↗

— Russell Pearce

#american citizens #averaging #citizens #crimes #day

Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime. ↗

— Imre Lakatos

#commitment #crime #intellectual #theory #virtue

No crime can ever be defended on rational grounds. ↗

— Titus Livius

#defended #ever #grounds #rational

The rise of computer crime and armed robbery has not eliminated the lure of caged cash. ↗

— James Chiles

#caged #cash #computer #crime #eliminated

The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#caused #common #crime #kind #poor

If a war be undertaken... before the resources of peace have been tried and proved vain to secure it, that war has no defense, it is a national crime. ↗

— Charles Eliot Norton

#before #crime #defense #national #peace

Where you have the most armed citizens in America, you have the lowest violent crime rate. Where you have the worst gun control, you have the highest crime rate. ↗

— Ted Nugent

#armed #citizens #control #crime #crime rate

White-collar crime gets more outrageous by the second in America. ↗

— Sara Paretsky

#crime #gets #more #outrageous #second

Armed and law-abiding citizens are a greater deterrent to violent crime than 1,000 laws passed by Congress. ↗

— Rick Perry

#citizens #congress #crime #deterrent #greater