#crime

Perhaps the world's second-worst crime is boredom; the first is being a bore. ↗

— Cecil Beaton

#bore #boredom #crime #first #perhaps

A cat is more intelligent than people believe, and can be taught any crime. ↗

— Mark Twain

#intelligence

Life [had] replaced logic. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#life-of-meaning #raskolnikov #resurrection #life

I was assigned to do a job by the attorney general, and that was to find out whether crimes were committed. ↗

— Kenneth Starr

#attorney #attorney general #committed #crimes #find

Every study on crime and or firearms proves time and time again, that 99.99999% of American gun owners do not commit crimes or use our firearms in any dangerous or improper way. ↗

— Ted Nugent

#american #any #commit #crime #crimes

Not that I am ashamed of my mind or body, my birth or breeding, my actions or fortunes, for my bashfulness is in my nature, not for any crime. ↗

— Margaret Cavendish

#am #any #ashamed #bashfulness #birth

Many who resort to crime ultimately can't read or write. ↗

— Wally Amos

#many #read #resort #ultimately #who

The man who is admired for the ingenuity of his larceny is almost always rediscovering some earlier form of fraud. The basic forms are all known, have all been practiced. The manners of capitalism improve. The morals may not. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#crime #economics #age

So what really works? Treatments in jail do some good, but it's mostly too late: finding a family and a job or just growing older make most prisoners eventually give up crime. ↗

— Polly Toynbee

#eventually #family #finding #give #good

Hidden away behind the closed doors of aristocratic and bourgeois privilege, concealed under those ultra-respectable masks of black frock coat and veil, the green glow of corruption flickers into sight, steadies, and spreads everywhere, fostered by Lorrain's horrified and complicitous gaze. This decadent detective is at one with the criminal he pursues, acknowledging openly that the representation of corruption is one of the most pleasurable forms that corruption can take. In this enterprise, art is the mask that both exposes and conceals culpability. ↗

— Jennifer Birkett

#corruption #crime #criminal #culpability #decadence