Crime Quote by Rhymefest Download Open image “There's an economy of violence. It's sexy. It's being exploited.” — Rhymefest ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Crime Economics Economy Sexy Violence
Whenever we engage in consumption or production patterns which take more than we need, we are engaging in violence. — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
“Violence is a means of bargaining and signalling value within the marketplace.” — Alex de Waal Copy Share Image
Violence is a very ugly thing. Violence is often so casual on film, and made to look so cool and so sexy, but violence… — James Purefoy Copy Share Image
The key words of violent economics are urbanization, industrialization, centralization, efficiency, quantity, speed. . . . The problem of evolving a nonviolent way of… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
“Violence is a tool. It is meant to shock. To change. Instead, they normalize and celebrate it. And create a culture of exploitation.” — Pierce Brown Copy Share Image
“When we use violence as a currency to buy justice, it is like a man using his daily wage to buy bread. Once he… — James Flerlage Copy Share Image
“Violence is what people do when they run out of good ideas. It’s attractive because it’s simple, it’s direct, it’s almost always available as… — Corey, James S. A Copy Share Image
Neoliberal violence produced in part through a massive shift in wealth to the upper 1%, growing inequality, the reign of the financial service industries,… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
There is a comfort in conformity, a security in control, that is appealing. There is a thrill in domination, and we are all secretly… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
We are a country of excess. So it's not the violence, per se, but the exacerbation and constant repetition. — Norman Lear Copy Share Image
The violence is the violence. I understand that we're sometimes squeamish about it, but I think that strength needs to be called on once… — Greg Bryk Copy Share Image
...In every realm of male expression and action, violence is experienced and articulated as love and freedom. — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
Our visual and musical artists have no incentive to be educated. So what we get is a bunch of uneducated artists inspiring misinformation, miseducation… — Rhymefest Copy Share Image
New York is the financial capital of the world. Everything moves so fast, and the music is fast, and some of it is for… — Rhymefest Copy Share Image
There's a duty and an obligation to community that we must teach our children to honor no matter how far they go. Life is… — Rhymefest Copy Share Image
I think it's interesting that a lot of times people want celebrities to give back in the way that they want them to give… — Rhymefest Copy Share Image
I know rappers who are grandparents and we still haven't conquered politics, social development, philanthropy and these are areas, as we become our parents… — Rhymefest Copy Share Image
I don't think that we should look to celebrities to solve problems that are on our end of the street. — Rhymefest Copy Share Image
When I think about a Chicago sound, I think about the Great Migration from the South. Many of Chicago's black artists are from Mississippi,… — Rhymefest Copy Share Image
I definitely believe that the power of the artist is in the artist's hands now. We're kind of in the wild, wild west of… — Rhymefest 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