#crime

Don't compromise yourself - you're all you have. ↗

— John Grisham

#courtroom-drama #crime #crime

Good. Illegal is always faster. ↗

— Eoin Colfer

#expediency #crime

Criminals should be punished, not fed pastries. ↗

— Lemony Snicket

#criminal #pastry #crime

We're always thinking of eternity as an idea that cannot be understood, something immense. But why must it be? What if, instead of all this, you suddenly find just a little room there, something like a village bath-house, grimy, and spiders in every corner, and that's all eternity is. Sometimes, you know, I can't help feeling that that's what it is. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#crime

To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace ↗

— Malcolm X

#crime

The first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when a thousand were butchered and there was no end to the butchery, a blanket of silence spread. When evil-doing comes like falling rain, nobody calls out "stop!" When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer. ↗

— Bertolt Brecht

#numbness #war #crime

Rules are for children. This is war, and in war the only crime is to lose. ↗

— Joe Abercrombie

#rules #war #crime

A good act does not wash out the bad, nor a bad act the good. Each should have its own reward. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#justice #morality #redemption #crime

As a rule, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#crime

Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#tolerance #crime