#crime

There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion. ↗

— William Hazlitt

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And for any victim of a violent crime, when you actually get to go in and realize and see their faces and know that they can't hurt you any more, there is no feeling like that. It finally frees you from a lot of demons. ↗

— Patty Hearst

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I finally figured out what my crime was. I lived. Big mistake. ↗

— Patty Hearst

#big mistake #crime #figured #finally #i

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#crime #how #justified #matter #necessary

All novels are about crime. You'd be hard pressed to find any novel that does not have an element of crime. I don't see myself as a crime novelist, but there are crimes in my books. That's the nature of storytelling, if you want to reflect the real world. ↗

— Carl Hiaasen

#any #books #crime #crimes #does

In fact, if you have a crime committed against you, and you go to have hypnosis, you can't testify. Because there's no way to test what is real, what's fact, what's fantasy. ↗

— Betty Hill

#because #committed #crime #fact #fantasy

Since those who believe they need a hero/celebrity outnumber the actual heroes/celebrities, people feel safe and comfortably justified in numbers, committing egregious crimes in the name of the greater social ego. Ironically diminishing their own true hero-celebrity nature in the process. ↗

— Lauryn Hill

#believe #celebrities #celebrity #comfortably #committing

One of the things I learned is that you've got to deal with the underlying social problems if you want to have an impact on crime - that it's not a coincidence that you see the greatest amount of violent crime where you see the greatest amount of social dysfunction. ↗

— Eric Holder

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The cure for crime is not the electric chair, but the high chair. ↗

— J. Edgar Hoover

#crime #cure #electric #high

Bigamy is the only crime where two rites make a wrong. ↗

— Bob Hope

#crime #make #only #rites #two