Crime Quote by Bernard Tschumi Download Open image “Society secretly delights in crime, excesses, and violated prohibitions of all sorts.” — Bernard Tschumi ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Crime Crime Excesses Delight Delights Crime Excess Prohibition Secretly Delights Society Secretly Violated Prohibitions
Permissiveness, immorality, pornography, drugs, the power of peer pressure-all these and more-cause many to be tossed about on a sea of sin and crushed… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression. — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
Where aspirations outstrip opportunities, law-abiding society becomes the victim. Attitudes of contempt toward the law are forged in this crucible and form the inner… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
. . . nothing could be more grotesquely unjust than a code of morals, reinforced by laws, which relieves men from responsibility for irregular… — Suzanne La Follette Copy Share Image
Crime is the soul of lust. What would pleasure be if it were not accompanied by crime? It is not the object of debauchery… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
So called pleasures, when they go beyond a certain limit, are but punishments. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The greatest crimes do not arise from a want of feeling for others but from an over-sensibility for ourselves and an over-indulgence to our… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
society ... is tolerant of crimes, and long suffering with dullness, but it shows no mercy to those who are different from other people. — Geraldine Jewsbury Copy Share Image
I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Any relationship between a building and its users is one of violence, for any use means the intrusion of a human body into a… — Bernard Tschumi Copy Share Image
The general public will almost always stand behind the traditionalists. In the public eye, architecture is about comfort, about shelter, about bricks and mortar. — Bernard Tschumi Copy Share Image
The ultimate pleasure of architecture lies in the most forbidden parts of the architectural act, where limits are perverted and prohibitions are transgressed. — Bernard Tschumi Copy Share Image
I was once in a very, very bad car accident. So my drawing arm is full of pins and platinum stuff. Occasionally it hurts.… — Bernard Tschumi Copy Share Image
I feel very comfortable in New York, in a city where there is no such thing as 'nationality.' — Bernard Tschumi Copy Share Image
My apartment reflects my views as an architect. It is minimal, austere. The architecture doesn't impose itself upon you. The apartment is a stage… — Bernard Tschumi Copy Share Image
Before 2000, everything was about being contextual, and buildings were supposed to be good citizens. — Bernard Tschumi Copy Share Image
I think architects are often at their best when faced with restraints. — Bernard Tschumi Copy Share Image
Concepts differentiate architecture from mere building...A bicycle shed with a concept is architecture; a cathedral without one is just a building. — Bernard Tschumi Copy Share Image
Architecture is not so much a knowledge of form, but a form of knowledge. — Bernard Tschumi Copy Share Image
I wear the same black suit. I have five of them. I pair them with a red scarf. I was wearing a red scarf… — Bernard Tschumi Copy Share Image
To really appreciate architecture, you may even need to commit a murder. — Bernard Tschumi Copy Share Image
“Crime and punishment can be summed up in two classifications: there are bad people and there are people who get into bad situations. The… — Johnnie Dent Jr Copy Share Image
With 'Pretty Girls,' I saw the opportunity to talk not just about crime but what crime leaves behind. — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
“The jailers, the Court, everyone in that building – it wasn’t about justice; it was about obedience and intimidation…about maintaining order. Fear accomplished that… — Jay Allan Copy Share Image
Taking notes while watching Forensic Files and Snapped. I don't want to make the same mistakes the criminals do! ;) — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, powerlines, and right-angled… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Nations sometimes flourish by denying the crimes that brought them into being. Only when the original invasion, occupation, extermination or usurpation has been safely… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
“a crime to fell a tree and light it on fire, where coals of hardened shit warmed and stunk up homes,” — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
A great read; an exciting, frightening account of organized crime today. But like all important works of nonfiction, it goes further… This book is… — Le Ly Hayslip Copy Share Image
If it comes to a question of law, the charges they brought against me - the Espionage Act - is called the quintessential political… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
