Crime Quotes - Page 28

• Historically, it appears that society has capitalized on what is at most a degree of difference between the sexes in order to institutionalize the polarization of aggression.

  Freda Adler

  Sex, Order, Differences

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• There is hardly any deviancy, no matter how reprehensible in one context, which is not extolled as a virtue in another. There are no natural crimes, only legal ones.

  Freda Adler

  Matter, Virtue, Natural

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• War is a crime committed by men and, therefore, when enough people say it shall not be, it cannot be.

  Nellie L. McClung

  War, Men, People

  Nellie L. McClung (1915). “In Times Like These”, p.15, University of Toronto Press

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• There are ... other business societies - England, Holland, Belgium and France, for instance. But ours [the United States] is the only culture now extant in which business so completely dominates the national scene that sports, crime, sex, death, philanthropy and Easter Sunday are money-making propositions.

  Margaret Halsey

  Sports, Easter, Sex

  Margaret Halsey (1952). “The Folks at Home”

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• Corporate crime kills far more people and costs taxpayers far more money than street crime.

  Anita Roddick

  People, Cost, Corporations

  Anita Roddick (2001). “Take It Personally: How to Make Conscious Choices to Change the World”, HarperThorsons

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• Society is the true sphere of human virtue. In social, active life, difficulties will perpetually be met with; restraints of many kinds will be necessary; and studying to behave right in respect of these is a discipline of the human heart, useful to others, and improving to itself. Suffering is no duty, but where it is necessary to avoid guilt, or to do good; nor pleasure a crime, but where it strengthens the influence of bad inclinations, or lessens the generous activity of virtue.

  Elizabeth Carter

  Heart, Discipline, Suffering

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1806). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes ...”, p.259

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• If two people fight on the street, whose fault is it? Who is the criminal? It is the government?s responsibility because the government has not educated the people to not make mistakes. The people have inadequate, incompetent education, so they make mistakes them! It is such a fraud.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Mistake, Responsibility, Fighting

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• The profound nature of our existence is that we are able at any moment to connect to anyone, anywhere. History is there to remind us of how far weve come, and every day our journey is to continue with that progress of becoming more wise, more compassionate and more considerate human beings. Remembering Emmett though song is way to remind people that there is no need to continue with senseless crimes. Race and racism do no go hand in hand. We are only one race: human.

  Melody Gardot

  Wise, Song, Journey

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• America may be the only society on earth to have experienced what has been called an 'epidemic of children killing children,' which is ravaging some of its communities today.

  Sissela Bok

  Children, Epidemics, America

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• Let's not hate ourselves. We are all we have. ... I have been a longtime perpetrator of hate crimes against myself, and I am turning myself in. I have had enough.

  Margaret Cho

  Hate, Had Enough, Perpetrators

  Margaret Cho (2007). “I'm the One That I Want”, p.91, Ballantine Books

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• The philosophy of love and peace strangely overlooked who was in possession of the guns. There had been love and peace for some time on the continent of Africa because for all this time black men had been captivated by the doctrines of Christianity. It took them centuries to realize its contradictions. ... perhaps there was no greater crime as yet than all the lies Western civilization had told in the name of Jesus Christ.

  Bessie Head

  Jesus, Lying, Philosophy

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• And looking into the face of ... one dead man we see two dead, the man and the life of the woman who gave him birth; the life she wrought into his life! And looking into his dead face someone asks a woman, what does a woman know about war? What, what, friends in the face of a crime like that, what does man know about war?

  Anna Howard Shaw

  War, Men, Two

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• One's conscience reproaches one much more stingingly for one's follies than one's crimes.

  Geraldine Jewsbury

  Folly, Reproach, Conscience

  Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury (1892). “Selections from the Letters of Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury to Jane Welsh Carlyle”

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• society ... is tolerant of crimes, and long suffering with dullness, but it shows no mercy to those who are different from other people.

  Geraldine Jewsbury

  Long, People, Suffering

  Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury (2009). “Zoe: The History of Two Lives”, p.51, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• For he that but conceives a crime in thought,
  Contracts the danger of an actual fault.

  Thomas Creech

  Faults, Danger, Contracts

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• A recent report by UNEP and Interpol estimated that between 50 to 90 per cent of logging in key tropical countries of the Amazon basin, Central Africa and South East Asia is being carried out by organized crime. This threatens not only attempts to eradicate poverty and deforestation but also efforts to combat climate change.

  Achim Steiner

  Country, Keys, Effort

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• It's not the best between my family and me. There are so many crimes left unpunished, debts unpaid, white elephants in the middle of the room that no one will even offer a peanut to. We are in the red, emotionally speaking.

  Margaret Cho

  Family, Elephants, White

  Margaret Cho (2006). “I Have Chosen to Stay and Fight”, Riverhead Trade (Paperbacks)

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• I see no kind of reason to not just try everything. I mean, I feel like we all have such varied tastes, and to not just try our tastes is a crime.

  Dev Hynes

  Mean, Trying, Taste

  "For Dev Hynes, Every Sound Is A Color". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel Melissa Block, www.npr.org. November 20, 2013.

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• An oath is a recognizance to heaven, binding us over in the courts above to plead to the indictment of our crimes.

  Thomas Southerne

  Heaven, Court, Indictment

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• Lucky are you, reader, if you happen not to be of that sex to whom it is forbidden all good things; to whom liberty is denied; to whom almost all virtues are denied; lucky are you if you are one of those who can be wise without its being a crime.

  Marie de Gournay

  Wise, Sex, Women

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• The most savage and voracious animal never kills to increase his wealth, or open a way to grandeur. It slays to satisfy his hunger, or in a natural defense of his own life, or of those whom he is prompted by instinct to preserve.

  Mary Collyer

  Animal, Savages, Defense

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• Avarice, with all its black attendants, is confessedly a crime of old age, and seldom arrives at maturity till accompanied with gray hairs.

  Mary Collyer

  Maturity, Hair, Greed

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• Real Jews, in concord with some Muslims, continue their war against Zionists and against Israeli crimes. The oppressed people of Palestine living under occupation must feel that believers of all faiths support them.

  Maurice Motamed

  Real, War, People

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• Remarriage is or is not approved in shastra; I have no authority to speak on this subject. But I surely cannot go on without saying this much, that remarriage has helped a great deal in stopping crime in Fiji.

  Totaram Sanadhya

  Stopping, Fiji, Goes On

  Totaram Sanadhya, John Dunham Kelly, Uttra Kumari Singh (1991). “My twenty-one years in the Fiji Islands ; and, The story of the haunted line”

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• it is not the deed but the intention that makes the crime.

  Heloise

  Deeds, Intention

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