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As history has repeatedly suggested, nothing is more effective for demolishing traditional legal protections than the combined claims that a crime is uniquely dangerous, and that those behind it have exceptional powers of resistance. [On witchburning in France during the 16th Century.]


Sarah Bakewell


#law #montaigne #society #life

All objects in the universe are unique. No two things that happen by chance ever happen in exactly the same way. No two things are ever constructed or manufactured in exactly the same way. No two things wear in exactly the same way. No two things ever break in exactly the same way.


Joe Nickell


#forensics #science #science

Hunger and necessity are poor teachers of morality. A society that cannot provide the basics of life does not get its laws obeyed.


A.J. Quinnell


#laws #poverty #societal-breakdown #society #life

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

AMNESTY, n. The state's magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish.


Ambrose Bierce


#crime #humor #immigration #politics #punishment

It's funny how you take things like electricity for granted. You hit the button that turns everything on and it just comes on. You get used to that and it just works every single time. So what happens when it suddenly doesn't? things very well could get messy.


Robin Burks


#fantasy #mythology-fiction #funny

Bravery isn't when you go looking for trouble; bravery is when trouble comes looking for you.


P.I. Barrington


#cult #future-imperfect-trilogy #futuristic #las-vegas #romantic-suspense

Love great first lines and paragraphs. From The Yiddish Policemen's Union: Nine months Landsman's been flopping at the Hotel Zamenhof without any of his fellow residents managing to get themselves murdered. Now somebody has put a bullet in the brain of the occupant of 208, a yid who was calling himself Emanuel Lasker.


Michael Chabon


#fantasy #love

Know about the appeals process, especially in the case of the most serious crimes.


Marilyn vos Savant


#appeals #case #crimes #especially #know

Popularity is a crime from the moment it is sought; it is only a virtue where men have it whether they will or no.


George Savile


#men #moment #only #popularity #sought






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