Crime Quote by Dean Cavanagh Download Open image “Can the perpetrator of a "senseless" crime use transcendence as a defense?” — Dean Cavanagh ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Crime Defense Perpetrators Transcendence Use
Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit. — Freda Adler Copy Share Image
“No more self-defeating device could be discovered than the one society has developed in dealing with the criminal. It proclaims his career in such… — Frank Tannenbaum Copy Share Image
“Crime is a rigid, unbending master, against whom no one can be strong except by total rebellion” — Alessandro Manzoni Copy Share Image
Indeed, what is startling about the notion of a victimless crime is that even when the behavior in question is genuinely victimless, its criminality… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“Because of the matrix of rampant horrors often described as overcriminalization, it is no longer possible for you to rely on your own conscience… — James Duane Copy Share Image
The victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I know not any crime so great that a man could contrive to commit as poisoning the sources of eternal truth. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
There is hardly any deviancy, no matter how reprehensible in one context, which is not extolled as a virtue in another. There are no… — Freda Adler Copy Share Image
We cannot lightly allow the perpetrator of a serious crime to go free simply because that person believed his actions were reasonable and necessary… — Sol Wachtler Copy Share Image
“Would a DNA test for love take a sample from the heart or the mind?” — Dean Cavanagh Copy Share Image
“Artist Matthew Barney has made a film about “shit”. It is hardly original. Hollywood has made shit films for decades.” — Dean Cavanagh Copy Share Image
“The obsession with the afterlife is born of a panic at not having memories of a before-life.” — Dean Cavanagh Copy Share Image
“The Path Of Least Resistance Is Littered With The Corpses Of The Bored To Death” — Dean Cavanagh Copy Share Image
“The ultimate goal of the political elite is to privatize the air. So as not to destroy their own edifice of democratic compassion they… — Dean Cavanagh Copy Share Image
The ego camouflages itself like a fox born and raised in a hen house. Its only worry is that you fail to notice its… — Dean Cavanagh Copy Share Image
“Keeping your mouth shut whilst eating shit will get you far in life but your soul will die of starvation.” — Dean Cavanagh 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