#crime

Have not prisons - which kill all will and force of character in man, which enclose within their walls more vices than are met with on any other spot of the globe - always been universities of crime? ↗

— Peter Kropotkin

#any #been #character #crime #enclose

Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime. ↗

— John Ruskin

#effective #hands #instrument #last #least

The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

#consequence #crimes #her #means #most

It's interesting that these themes of crime and political corruption are always relevant. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

#corruption #crime #interesting #political #relevant

One of the things is that the good intentions of Prohibition, from reading over the years and from becoming obsessed with the research of gangs in New York City, seems to have allowed crime figures at the time, like Luciano, Capone, Torrio and Rothstein, to organize to become more powerful, which pulled all the way through until the '70s. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

#become #becoming #capone #city #crime

He has committed the crime who profits by it. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#crime #profits #who

I've been a police officer for over 20 years, and I've investigated murders and all kinds of different crimes. ↗

— Steven Seagal

#crimes #different #i #investigated #kinds

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

Is it a crime, to fight, for what is mine? ↗