Crime Quote by R. U. Sirius

What gave transcendent importance to the aggressiveness of power was the fact that its natural prey, its necessary victim, was liberty, or law, or…

— Bernard Bailyn

“Research finds that authoritarian aggression is fueled by fear and encouraged by remarkable self-righteousness, which frees aggressive impulses.”

— John W. Dean

Every relationship of domination, of exploitation, of oppression is by definition violent, whether or not the violence is expressed by drastic means. In such…

— Paulo Freire

“Self-control has been credited with one of the greatest reductions of violence in history, the thirtyfold drop in homicide between medieval and modern Europe.…

— Steven Pinker

“Of course civilizations are aggressive, Holmes says, but when they take up arms in order to impose their conception of civility on others, they…

— Louis Menand

“Manipulation. Domination. Control. These are the three watchwords of violent serial offenders.”

— John E. Douglas

A lust for the violence is the science of their behavior.

— Krs One

“There was a difference between violent, destructive crimes and bending rules that were prejudiced or predatory to start.”

— Angela Flournoy

“Revolution thus ran its course from city to city, and the places which it arrived at last, from having heard what had been done…

— Thucydides

“Violence is a primitive but still very widespread way in which the ego attempts to assert itself, to prove itself right and another wrong.”

— Eckhart Tolle

If there is one clear lesson of our century, it is this: where aggression is tolerated, it multiplies.

— Bob Dole

Violent measures are always dangerous, but, when necessary, may then be looked on as wise. They have, however, the advantage of never being matter…

— Lord Chesterfield