#crime

In a free world there is, alas, more common crime than in a dictatorial system. ↗

#common #crime #dictatorial #free #free world

All attempts at law, all religion, all ethical norms might be nothing more than attempts by the weak to restrain the strong. Then, within the law, arise the new strong, who subvert the law for their own ends of power and family interest, leaving the old strong outside their circle to pursue the waiting possibilities which they call crime. The weak, the cowardly, the decent ones, live between these groups. ↗

— George Zebrowski

#morals #punishment #family

The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit. ↗

— Samuel Gompers

#company #crime #fails #operate #people

It doesn't help to wait until something happens and then prosecute the offenders, especially if it's the idea of the offender to extinguish himself in the commission of the crime. ↗

— John Ashcroft

#crime #especially #extinguish #happens #help

Powerful states can maintain themselves only by crime, little states are virtuous only by weakness. ↗

— Mikhail Bakunin

#little #maintain #only #powerful #states

The EU and the U.S. often work together to develop international standards. This is the case in fighting terrorism and transnational crime, advancing trade liberalization, and combating piracy and intellectual property violations. ↗

— John Bruton

#case #combating #crime #develop #eu

Hacking into a victim of crime's phone is a sort of poetically elegant manifestation of a modus operandi the tabloids have. ↗

— Steve Coogan

#elegant #hacking #into #manifestation #phone

If you are going to break a Law of Art, make the crime interesting. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#break #crime #going #interesting #law

A first impulse was never a crime. ↗

— Pierre Corneille

#first #impulse #never

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