#crimes

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

— Mark Twain

#intelligence

You will notice that what we are aiming at when we fall in love is a very strange paradox. The paradox consists of the fact that, when we fall in love, we are seeking to re-find all or some of the people to whom we were attached as children. On the other hand, we ask our beloved to correct all of the wrongs that these early parents or siblings inflicted upon us. So that love contains in it the contradiction: The attempt to return to the past and the attempt to undo the past. ↗

— Woody Allen

#love

For the powerful, crimes are those that others commit. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#double-standards #hypocrisy #politics #power #war-crimes

I am convinced that imprisonment is a way of pretending to solve the problem of crime. It does nothing for the victims of crime, but perpetuates the idea of retribution, thus maintaining the endless cycle of violence in our culture. It is a cruel and useless substitute for the elimination of those conditions--poverty, unemployment, homelessness, desperation, racism, greed--which are at the root of most punished crime. The crimes of the rich and powerful go mostly unpunished. It must surely be a tribute to the resilience of the human spirit that even a small number of those men and women in the hell of the prison system survive it and hold on to their humanity. ↗

— Howard Zinn

#criminal-justice-system #cycle-of-violence #desperation #greed #homelessness

The crimes of the U.S. throughout the world have been systematic, constant, clinical, remorseless, and fully documented but nobody talks about them. ↗

— Harold Pinter

#been #body talks #clinical #constant #crimes

Identity theft is one of the fastest-growing crimes in the nation - especially in the suburbs. ↗

— Melissa Bean

#especially #identity #identity theft #nation #suburbs

We've committed many war crimes in Vietnam - but I'll tell you something interesting about that. We were committing war crimes in World War II, before the Nuremberg trials were held and the principle of war crimes was stated. ↗

— George Wald

#before #committed #committing #crimes #held

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#burning #crimes #reading #than #them

Any government that supports, protects or harbours terrorists is complicit in the murder of the innocent and equally guilty of terrorist crimes. ↗

— George W. Bush

#complicit #crimes #equally #government #guilty

I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, had not Cervantes, in that all too true tale of Quixote, shown how all such efforts fail. ↗

— Lord Byron

#check #crimes #efforts #fail #had