Crime Quotes - Page 20

• Look at the whole criminal correction game, which is a big piece of our economy. It's just an invention. Crime is being invented to put people to work.

  Jerry Brown

  Games, People, Criminals

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• So we are being systematically trained to fear this false 'rising crime' tide. This is all part of a system to lock up more people, and impose more control and surveillance.

  Jerry Brown

  People, Locks, Rising

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• A lot of street crime is horrible, but in terms of the dislocation, the undermining of the family - the corporate criminals, many of whom reside in Congress and the White House - are getting away literally with murder.

  Jerry Brown

  White, House, Criminals

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• The U.S. incarceration binge is not tied to crime. It's a strategy to control the surplus population in a capitalist system that is breaking down.

  Jerry Brown

  Population, Strategy, Breaking Down

  "As Mayor of Oakland, Jerry Brown Woos Business and Trumpets Order". www.wsj.com. August 10, 1999.

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• Money-crimes have an abstract quality. History is laden with the victims of gold, but their remains are odourless.

  Georges Bernanos

  Quality, Gold, Victim

  "A Diary of My Times". Book by Georges Bernanos, 1938.

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• The duty to disclose knowledge of crime rests upon all citizens.

  Robert H. Jackson

  Citizens, Duty

  "Stein v. New York, 346 U.S. 156, 184". Judicial opinion, 1953.

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• And while we destroy / Our children will grow / Not missing the things they'll never know / A crime against them / Against you and me / A crime against all humanity

  Kim Wilde

  Children, Missing, Humanity

  Song: Who's To Blame, Album: Love Moves, 1990

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• Everywhere you look - Britain, the States, western Europe - people are sealing themselves into crime-free enclaves. That's a mistake - a certain level of crime is part of the necessary roughage of life. Total security is a disease of deprivation.

  J. G. Ballard

  Mistake, Europe, People

  "Cocaine Nights". Book by J. G. Ballard, 1996.

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• Nothing that is not a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency, especially when it regards religion or party. In either of these cases, though a man perhaps does but his duty in changing his side, he not only makes himself hated by those he left, but is seldom heartily esteemed by those he comes over to.

  Joseph Addison

  Real, Party, Eye

  Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1854). “The Spectator”, p.30

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• Is not this insanity plea becoming rather common? Is it not so common that the reader confidently expects to see it offered in every criminal case that comes before the courts?... Really, what we want now, is not laws against crime, but a law against insanity.

  Mark Twain

  Law, Insanity, Want

  Mark Twain, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays”, p.2441, GENERAL PRESS

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• An absolute and unlimited right over any object of property would be the right to commit nearly every crime.If Ihad sucha right over thestick Iamaboutto cut, I might employ it as a mace to knock down the passengers, or I might convert it into a sceptre as an emblem of royalty, or into an idol to offend the national religion.

  Jeremy Bentham

  Cutting, Idols, Would Be

  Principles of the Civil Code, pt.1, ch.13, final note. Collected in John Bowring (ed) Works (1838-43), vol.1.

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• Crime, folly, sickness and all phenomena must be contemplated with complete freedom from fear aversion or shame. Otherwise we shall fail to see accurately, and interpret intelligently; in which case we shall be unable to outwit and outfight them.

  Aleister Crowley

  Aversion, Sickness, Failing

  Aleister Crowley (1991). “Magick: In Theory and Practice”, Book Sales

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• Toronto as a city carries out the idea of Canada as a country. It is a calculated crime against the aspirations of the soul and the affection of the heart.

  Aleister Crowley

  Country, Heart, Cities

  "The Confessions of Aleister Crowley: An Autohagiography". Book by Aleister Crowley, 1969.

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• So that every Crime is a sinne; but not every sinne a Crime.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Thomas Hobbes (1996). “Hobbes: Leviathan: Revised student edition”, p.185, Cambridge University Press

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• Of crimes injurious to the persons of private subjects, the most principal and important is the offense of taking away that life, which is the immediate gift of the great creator; and which therefore no man can be entitled to deprive himself or another of, but in some manner either expressly commanded in, or evidently deducible from, those laws which the creator has given us; the divine laws, I mean, of either nature or revelation.

  William Blackstone

  Mean, Men, Law

  Sir William Blackstone, Joseph Chitty, Edward Christian, John Eykyn Hovenden, Thomas Lee (1861). “Commentaries on the laws of England: in four books, with an analysis of the work”

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• From a town known as Wheeling, West Virginia Rode a boy with a six-gun in his hand And his daring life of crime made him a legend in his time East and west of the Rio Grande. Well, he started with a bank in Colorado In the pocket of his vest a Colt he hid. And his age and his size took the teller by surprise, And the word spread of Billy the Kid.

  Billy Joel

  Kids, Gun, Boys

  Song: The Ballad Of Billy The Kid, Album: Piano Man, 1973

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• I think silence is the condition you accept as the judgment on your crimes.

  Don DeLillo

  Thinking, Silence, Judgment

  Don DeLillo (2015). “Underworld: Picador Classic”, p.342, Pan Macmillan

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• Admittedly or not, conscious or unconscious, the poetic state, a transcendent experience of life, is what the public is fundamentally seeking through love, crime, drugs, war, or insurrection.

  Antonin Artaud

  War, Poetry, Drug

  Antonin Artaud (1958). “The Theater and Its Double”, p.122, Grove Press

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• For the lost are lost by nature, all your ideas of moral regeneration will make no difference, there is AN INNATE DETERMINISM, there is an undeniable incurability in suicide, crime, idiocy, madness, there is an invincible cuckoldry in man, there is a congenital weakness of the character, a castration of the mind.

  Antonin Artaud

  Suicide, Character, Men

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• For a punishment to be just it should consist of only such gradations of intensity as suffice to deter men from committing crimes.

  Cesare Beccaria

  Men, Intensity, Should

  Cesare Beccaria (1963). “On Crimes and Punishments”, Pearson College Division

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• We are a democracy, and there is only one way to get a democracy on its feet in the matter of its individual, its social, its municipal, its State, its National conduct, and that is by keeping the public informed about what is going on.There isnot a crime, there isnot a dodge, there is not a trick, there is not a swindle, there is not a vice which does not live by secrecy.Get these things out in the open, describe them, attack them, ridicule them in the press, and sooner or later public opinion will sweep them away.

  Joseph Pulitzer

  Feet, Democracy, Vices

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• It had long been true, and prisoners knew this better than anyone, that the poorer you were the more likely you were to end up in jail. This was not just because the poor committed more crimes. In fact, they did. The rich did not have to commit crimes to get what they wanted; the laws were on their side. But when the rich did commit crimes, they often were not prosecuted, and if they were they could get out on bail, hire clever lawyers, get better treatment from judges. Somehow, the jails ended up full of poor black people.

  Howard Zinn

  Clever, Law, Jail

  Howard Zinn (2015). “A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present”, p.516, Routledge

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• Thou knowest not the endless artifices of a court. Invented crimes are often there alleged; but real ones, and those especially, which may offend his pride, are oftentimes not to a king divulged.

  Vittorio Alfieri

  Kings, Real, Pride

  Vittorio Alfieri (1876). “The Tragedies of Vittorio Alfieri: Complete, Including His Posthumous Works”

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• To live one's love and hatred, to live that which one is means defeat, resignation, and death. The crimes of society, the hell that man has made or man become unconquerable cosmic forces.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Mean, Men, Hatred

  Herbert Marcuse (2012). “One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society”, p.61, Beacon Press

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• When the whole is at stake, there is no crime except that of rejecting the whole, or not defending it. ... Those who identify themselves with the whole, who are installed as the leaders and defenders of the whole can make mistakes, but they cannot do wrong - they are not guilty. They may become guilty again when this identification no longer holds, when they are gone.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Mistake, Leader, Gone

  "One-Dimensional Man" by Herbert Marcuse, (p. 82-83), 1964.

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