Crime Quote by Maurice Broaddus Download Open image ““When the powerless seek their own sense of control, ‘crime’ is what an unjust system produces.”” — Maurice Broaddus ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Crime
“Crime is a rigid, unbending master, against whom no one can be strong except by total rebellion” — Alessandro Manzoni Copy Share Image
“Unjust systems perpetuate themselves by means of institutionalized violence.” — Walter Wink Copy Share Image
“I write that crime is an unlawful act of violence that can be committed by anyone, and that punishment is the consequence designed for… — Mahbod Seraji Copy Share Image
“The Society which seeks to eliminate the very possibility of causing offence is already halfway down the road to tyranny.” — Simon Young 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
“How can I blame others, when I cannot stop myself committing crimes?” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
“I was raised to believe that all I could ever be was a criminal. It made me want to be anything but one. When… — Marina Simcoe Copy Share Image
“Until you put these things to right, you're not entitled to boast of the justice meted out to thieves, for it's a justice more… — Thomas More Copy Share Image
“A crime is born in the gap between the morality of society and that of the individual.” — Håkan Nesser Copy Share Image
“In my experience, what defines a crime depends on who’s getting screwed.” — Mark Frost Copy Share Image
“Beneath the power of empire is the problem of justice. Peel that back and beneath the power of justice is the problem of violence.” — Maurice Broaddus Copy Share Image
“Any town considered a potential boomtown had encampments whose tents fluttered in the breeze like a squad of sailboats coming to port. People flocked… — Maurice Broaddus Copy Share Image
“Acclimatizing to its customs and particular brand of bustle, he’d gotten a sense of Wewoka. Without the lens of a fever-induced vision, it proved… — Maurice Broaddus Copy Share Image
“The urban sprawl of squat earthen buildings trailed into the woods, layered, unobtrusive, camouflaged by nature, inadvertent interruptions to the greenways. The” — Maurice Broaddus 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