#rim

Behind every great fortune lies a great crime. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#behind #crime #every #fortune #lies

Sisters in Crime now has more than 4,000 members worldwide. ↗

— Sara Paretsky

#members #more #now #sisters #than

Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#behalf #crime #demand #direct #forgiveness

It may be impossible to have a revolution without crimes but that does not make revolution a crime. ↗

— Jose Bergamin

#crimes #does #impossible #make #may

Aside from sales, the letters from readers have been primarily positive. ↗

— Jean M. Auel

#been #letters #positive #primarily #readers

Poverty is the mother of crime. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#mother #poverty

In fact, even the perception of a resurgence in crime can be enough to paralyze business momentum and destroy the sense of security that a vibrant and progressive city requires. ↗

— Alan Autry

#city #crime #destroy #enough #even

The issue here revolves around the "right to be different (Mattos 1994:16). People have difficulty living harmoniously with those who are different. Because of this, they discriminate against anyone who has any distinctive characteristic whether of belief, religion, language, thought or color. ~ Valmor Da Silva p. 124 in Reading Other-Wise ↗

— Gerald O. West

#diversity #harmony #religion

Drug prohibition has caused gang warfare and other violent crimes by raising the prices of drugs so much that vicious criminals enter the market to make astronomical profits, and addicts rob and steal to get money to pay the inflated prices for their drugs. ↗

— Michael Badnarik

#caused #crimes #criminals #enter #gang

Cheney is a terrorist. He terrorizes our enemies abroad and innocent citizens here at home indiscriminately. ↗

— Alec Baldwin

#cheney #citizens #here #home #indiscriminately