#crime

The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#caused #common #crime #kind #poor

Secret ceremonies in which malevolent men and women cloaked in hooded robes, hiding behind painted faces and chanting demonic incantations while inflicting sadistic wounds on innocent children lying on makeshift alters, or tied to inverted crosses, sounds like the stuff of which B-grade horror movies are made. Some think amoral religious cults only populate the world of Rosemary's Baby, but don't exist in real life. Or, do they? Ask Jenny Hill. ↗

— Judy Byington

#crime #cult #dissociation #dissociative-identity-diroder #human-sacrifice

There was a war crimes trial because an American prisoner had been shot trying to escape. He had obviously been recaptured and shot, and that violated the Geneva Convention. ↗

— Charles Guggenheim

#because #been #convention #crimes #escape

It's very simple. If the American people care about a lot of things including corruption in government, then, in fact, if you use the power to appoint in order to do political business, to clear fields, to save your party money and so on, if it's not a crime - and I believe it is - it certainly is business as usual, politics of corruption. ↗

— Darrell Issa

#american #american people #appoint #believe #business

In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime. ↗

— Abdul Kalam

#crime #death #india #only #read

How accurately can the law fix the crime? There has to be a mechanism for very fast action. The law is like this: catch them and punish them. ↗

— Abdul Kalam

#action #catch #crime #fast #fix

one blow in anger [would] kill, probably, a child from aged two to eight. Those over eight would take two blows to kill. ↗

— Patricia Highsmith

#crime #humour #inspirational #murder #age

I have done my duty by the laws of my people and I am sorry my people were led this time by men who were not soldiers and that crimes were committed of which I had no knowledge. ↗

— Ernst Kaltenbrunner

#committed #crimes #done #duty #had

Amin is the shame of the whole world. The fact that he managed to rule so long and commit so many crimes was only possible thanks to the hypocrisy of the East and the West who were waging the Cold War for world domination. ↗

— Ryszard Kapuscinski

#cold #cold war #commit #crimes #domination

I am fascinated by crime scene investigating. I swear, I wish I was a crime scene investigator sometimes! ↗

— Kim Kardashian

#crime #fascinated #i #i am #i wish