#crime

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

— Ralph Abernathy

#damn #did #going #house #into

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

— Freda Adler

#becomes #crime #only #victim #which

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

— Freda Adler

#chooses #crime #ethical #group #philosophical

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. ↗

— Alexander Alekhine

#considered #crime #drunk #excuse #fact

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

— Woody Allen

#billion #crime #dollars #forty #little

Many foster children have had difficulty making the transition to independent living. Several are homeless, become single parents, commit crimes, or live in poverty. They are also frequent targets of crime. ↗

— Charles Foster Bass

#become #children #commit #crime #crimes

No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

#been #commission #contrary #could #crime

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. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

#best #collective #confessions #crime #discovery

People who commit crimes should be responsible for those crimes. It doesn't matter whether they're priests or ministers or atheists. ↗

— John Ashcroft

#commit #crimes #matter #ministers #people

Nothing is more devastating to a community than out-of-control crime. ↗

— Alan Autry

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