#crime

It is a crime against the State to be powerful enough to commit one. ↗

— Pierre Corneille

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The crime and not the scaffold makes the shame. ↗

— Pierre Corneille

#makes #scaffold #shame

Well for one, the 13th amendment to the constitution of the US which abolished slavery - did not abolish slavery for those convicted of a crime. ↗

— Angela Davis

#amendment #constitution #convicted #crime #did

American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc. ↗

— Katherine Dunn

#american culture #between #crime #culture #devastation

If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows. ↗

— Paul Eldridge

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It is one thing to look at a mistreated boat and another to look at a tomb. The silence of the bay seemed more intense. And I could see the glint of the carrion flies. ↗

— John D. MacDonald

#death #death

There is no city in America that has reduced crime as much as we have in the last three years. This is not the product of accident. This is the product of design. ↗

— Rudy Giuliani

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It's about time law enforcement got as organized as organized crime. ↗

— Rudy Giuliani

#crime #enforcement #got #law #law enforcement

The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual crime. ↗

— Max Stirner

#crime #individual #law #own #state

Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man. ↗

— Jean Genet

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