#crime

There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice. ↗

— Simone Weil

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I used to always fight for human rights. I still fight for Leonard Peltier, who's spent 35 years in jail for a crime he didn't commit. ↗

— Vivienne Westwood

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It is hardly fair to accuse us of ignorance when it was made a crime under the former order of things to learn enough about letters to even read the Word of God. ↗

— George H. White

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Let's remember the children who come from broken homes, surrounded by crime, drugs, temptation, their peers having babies out of wedlock, but who still manage to get a good education despite the many obstacles they face every day. ↗

— Armstrong Williams

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I think there's a lot of naivete and hubris within our mix of personalities. That's probably our worst crime. I keep wondering what a "mature" record means. ↗

— Ian Williams

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There's no point regretting things. If you can't do the time, don't do the crime. Life's too short to worry about things I've said. ↗

— Robbie Williams

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Crime is the price society pays for abandoning character. ↗

— James Q. Wilson

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Crime, family dissolution, welfare, and low levels of social organization are fundamentally a consequence of the disappearance of work. ↗

— William Julius Wilson

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History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

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You know that murder is wicked. If you saw your master kill a man, do you suppose this would be any excuse for you, if you should commit the same crime? ↗

— Jupiter Hammon

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