#crime

The consequences of a crime should not be out of proportion to the crime itself. ↗

— John F. Kerry

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It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#committed #crimes #deplorable #derivative #greater

The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#because #change #conservative #crimes #culture

The biological factors underlying race differences in sports have consequences for educational achievement, crime and sexual behavior. ↗

— J. Philippe Rushton

#behavior #biological #consequences #crime #differences

The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

#consequence #crimes #her #means #most

Know about the appeals process, especially in the case of the most serious crimes. ↗

— Marilyn vos Savant

#appeals #case #crimes #especially #know

Popularity is a crime from the moment it is sought; it is only a virtue where men have it whether they will or no. ↗

— George Savile

#men #moment #only #popularity #sought

I hadn't realized until I covered the police beat just how seedy crime is. ↗

— Jessica Savitch

#covered #crime #hadn #how #i

It's interesting that these themes of crime and political corruption are always relevant. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

#corruption #crime #interesting #political #relevant

One of the things is that the good intentions of Prohibition, from reading over the years and from becoming obsessed with the research of gangs in New York City, seems to have allowed crime figures at the time, like Luciano, Capone, Torrio and Rothstein, to organize to become more powerful, which pulled all the way through until the '70s. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

#become #becoming #capone #city #crime