Crime Quote by Alan W. Watts

Despite crime's omnipresence, things work in society, because biology compels it. Order eventually restores itself, by psychic equilibrium.

— Camille Paglia

“When the powerless seek their own sense of control, ‘crime’ is what an unjust system produces.”

— Maurice Broaddus

Crime is to the passions what nervous fluid is to life: it sustains them, it supplies their strength.

— Anonymous

“Crime belongs exclusively to the lower orders. I don't blame them in the smallest degree. I should fancy that crime was to them what…

— Oscar Wilde

“The dreadful superstition that it is possible to foresee the future shape of society serves to justify all kinds of violence in the name…

— Leo Tolstoy

“There are tumults of the mind, when, like the great convulsions of Nature, all seems anarchy and returning chaos; yet often, in those moments…

— William Gibson

“The first principal of non-violent action is that of non-cooperation with everything humiliating.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Some people hide behind rules and regulations to deliver sadistic punishments, as if they don’t secretly delight in causing pain and abusing their power.”

— Jarod Kintz

“Violence is a means of bargaining and signalling value within the marketplace.”

— Alex de Waal

“... the repression of primitive, violent impulses in favor of civilized behavior was a control mechanism for the more shrewdly aggressive dominators who successfully…

— R. U. Sirius

“[Justice] demands seclusion, it permits sorrow rather than anger, and it prescribes the most careful abstention from all the nice pleasures of putting oneself…

— Hannah Arendt

“De Sade says you must commit crimes. In using the word crime we're adopting the consensus term, though among ourselves we would not describe…

— Elfriede Jelinek