#crime

The reader is the final arbiter. ↗

— Sam Reaves

#drama #inspirational #mystery #romance #romance-novels

I'm not afraid of dying. I'm afraid I'll never get a chance to live! ↗

— A.A. Bell

#diamond-eyes #fantasy #humour #inspirational #science-fiction

If it is a crime to love the South, its cause and its President, then I am a criminal. I would rather lie down in this prison and die than leave it owing allegiance to a government such as yours. ↗

— Belle Boyd

#am #cause #crime #criminal #die

There is no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty. ↗

— George Farquhar

#crime #like #nor #poverty #rags

Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal. ↗

— Friedrich Engels

#crime #criminal #even #laws #more

Petty laws breed great crimes. ↗

— Ouida

#crimes #great #laws #petty

Hascomb snatched an ancient weapon out of his glove compartment. Officers have smuggled them home from the last five wars. The Colt.45 automatic. ↗

— John D. MacDonald

#firearms #home

I read a lot of thrillers, especially American crime novels. ↗

— Kate Mosse

#crime #especially #i #lot #novels

False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing. ↗

— Joseph de Maistre

#crime #doing #false #first #first of all

War crimes, you say? No matter how many policies you put on paper, in reality, there are no rights and wrongs in war. War itself is a crime. War cannot be justified. I believe, the only people, in this world, whose opinions matter, are the ones who go the extra mile to help other people expecting nothing in return. Soldiers who fight fiercely for their country, the doctors in Sri Lanka's public hospitals attending to hundreds of patients at a time for no extra pay , the nuns who voluntarily teach English and math to children of refugee camps in the north, the monks who collect food to feed entire villages during crises, they are the people worth listening to, their opinion matters. So find me one of them who will say: they wish the war didn't end in 2009, that they wish Sri Lanka was divided into two parts. Find me one of them who agrees with the international war crime allegations against Sri Lanka, and I will listen. But I will not listen to the opinions of those who are paid to find faults in a war they were never a part of, a war they never experienced themselves. I will not listen to the opinions of those who watched the war on tv or read about it on the internet or were moved by a documentary on Al Jazeera. The war is over. The damage is done. Let Sri Lanka move on. So our children will never have to see what we've seen. ↗

— Thisuri Wanniarachchi

#ife #inspiration #paulo-coelho #sri-lanka #war