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What I did in my youth is hundreds of times easier today. Technology breeds crime.

My London constituency in Hackney has one of the highest levels of gun crime in the country. But the problem is no longer confined to inner city areas. Gun crime has spread to communities all over Britain.

Gun crime is a major cause of fear and distress throughout the UK. The problem is deeply entrenched in a wide range of social and cultural factors and therefore not an isolated issue.

He told us he was going to take crime out of the streets. He did. He took it into the damn White House.

Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit.

Rape is the only crime in which the victim becomes the accused.

Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.

The fact that a player is very short of time is, to my mind, as little to be considered an excuse as, for instance, the statement of the law-breaker that he was drunk at the time he committed the crime.

Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime.

Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime.

To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked.

Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year and spends very little on office supplies.

For instance, why are we terrorizing this country, leading with murder and mayhem, when crime is actually on the decline, as somebody, as somebody mentioned?

The Holocaust was the most evil crime ever committed.

That is why I come forward tonight without any political label, without any bias, but just simply as an Englishman to say to you: a crime is being committed against civilization.

In a free world there is, alas, more common crime than in a dictatorial system.

Many who resort to crime ultimately can't read or write.

I read true crime books, and I read when people do case studies of stuff. I'm into books like that. Case studies or forensics or murder - all that good stuff.

Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing.

Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.