Capitalism Quote by Petrus Borel

“The good news is that while you will get robbed if you stay in Paris long enough and are not vigilant, you’re very unlikely…

— James Laxer

We're living in a den of thieves

— Regina Spektor

“[Y]ou are ... entrusted with the pursuit of that most extraordinary of crimes: the theft of a human life. You speak for the dead.…

— David Simon

“Book 1: CRIME ON THE FENS”

— Joy Ellis

“Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief.”

— Nicolas Chamfort

“In Paris, if you had no money and could not find a public bench, you would sit on the pavement. Heaven knows what sitting…

— George Orwell

WALL STREET, n. A symbol for sin for every devil to rebuke. That Wall Street is a den of thieves is a belief that…

— Ambrose Bierce

“I don't think that anyone outside Paris can understand love and murder as we do. But Emile loves Paris, and loving Paris is a…

— William S. Wilson

“The Paris slums are a gathering-place for eccentric people–people who have fallen into solitary, half-mad grooves of life and given up trying to be…

— George Orwell

The living grave of crime.

— Joaquin Miller

Paris enjoys a high reputation for the style of its public edifices, and, while there is a very great deal to condemn, compared with…

— James Fenimore Cooper

“It seems that the Parisian Oulipo group has recently constructed a matrix of all possible murder-story situations and has found that there is still…

— Umberto Eco