#crime

Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#crime #fortunate #successful #virtue

Today it is becoming harder to speak out, with the inception of the Patriot Act, the president has legislated free speech to be a crime. ↗

— Frank Serpico

#becoming #crime #free #free speech #harder

People must realize that a crime motivated by racial or ethnic prejudice against one group is a crime against all of us. ↗

— Jose Serrano

#crime #ethnic #group #motivated #must

To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other. ↗

— Karl Shapiro

#child #consequently #crime #each #hate

Some players are criticised for having no loyalty. Well, I wanted to go back home and play for the club I supported. I don't think that's a crime. ↗

— Alan Shearer

#club #crime #criticised #go #having

In a colony constituted like that of New South Wales, the proportion of crime must of course be great. ↗

— Charles Sturt

#constituted #course #crime #great #like

I think it's too bad that everybody's decided to turn on drugs, I don't think drugs are the problem. Crime is the problem. Cops are the problem. Money's the problem. But drugs are just drugs. ↗

— Jerry Garcia

#cops #crime #decided #everybody #i

But witnesses incur responsibilities, as anyone who has ever seen a traffic accident and had to go to court to testify, knows. In the new world of globally televised war crimes, the defence of 'not knowing,' or neutrality, will dissolve for everyone. To be a witness or bystander is not a value-free choice but, inadvertently, a moral position; and in this sense the 'guilt' of people who live with the memory of crimes committed by members of their families, or communities, has been unwittingly extended to everyone who watches appalling pictures on the news. ↗

— Erna Paris

#justice #war-crimes #witness #family

Crack had a social logic to it, a specific kind of reasoning that drew from a vast well of common experience for its symbolic resonance. Crack stood for pain and power, chaos and order, the truth behind the lie. Crack was a sociolegal logic grounded in blood. ↗

— Dimitri A. Bogazianos

#drug-policy #drugs #law #social-issues #social-justice

I loved the True Crime Story "Fighting the Devil" by Jeannie Walker. It is such an interesting book. ↗

— Jeannie Walker

#love