Crime Quote by Walter Wink Download Open image ““Unjust systems perpetuate themselves by means of institutionalized violence.”” — Walter Wink ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Crime
“When the powerless seek their own sense of control, ‘crime’ is what an unjust system produces.” — Maurice Broaddus Copy Share Image
“I have reason to believe vigilantes grow to like their work. That power, unchecked, will corrupt its own agenda. That violence, given impunity and… — J.D. Robb Copy Share Image
“We live among nations who frequently wage unjust wars; who, disregarding the rights of others, oppress and rob, and even murder their citizens, in… — Henry Wager Halleck Copy Share Image
“Governments are committed to preserving the myth of their monopoly on violence. Violence belongs to everyone.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“Violence is compelling and ineffective, it can be ascertained, as one becomes an expert at it.” — Patricia Dsouza Copy Share Image
“The control of violence is the most important dilemma every society faces.” — James Dale Davidson Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“The system wears a mask of civility, yet will quickly reveal its true nature in the form of magnificently-purposed violence when needed.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“there is virtually no credible social science evidence to support the idea that violence in societies can be effectively addressed in the absence of… — Gary A. Haugen Copy Share Image
When a system of oppression has become institutionaliz ed it is unnecessary for individuals to be oppressive — Florynce Kennedy Copy Share Image
In 1989, thirteen nations comprising 1,695,000 people experienced nonviolent revolutions that succeeded beyond anyone's wildest expectations . . . If we add all the… — Walter Wink Copy Share Image
Mysticism has often been misunderstood as the attempt to escape this simple, phenomenal world to a more pure existence in heaven beyond. This is… — Walter Wink Copy Share Image
“The practical consequence of both of the teachings noted is to encourage homosexual promiscuity. Church members can engage in many short-term liaisons without raising… — Walter Wink Copy Share Image
Evil can be opposed without being mirrored. Oppressors can be resisted without being emulated. Enemies can be neutralized without being destroyed. — Walter Wink Copy Share Image
“Violent revolution fails because it is not revolutionary enough. It changes the rulers but not the rules, the ends but not the means. Most… — Walter Wink Copy Share Image
“The gospel, then, is not a message about the salvation of individuals from the world, but news about a world transfigured, right down to… — Walter Wink Copy Share Image
“Violent revolution fails because it is not revolutionary enough. It changes the rulers but not the rules, the ends but not the means.” — Walter Wink Copy Share Image
The 'peace' the gospel brings is never the absence of conflict, but an ineffable divine reassurance within the heart of conflict; a peace that… — Walter Wink Copy Share Image
Prayer infuses the air of a time yet to be into the suffocating atmosphere of the present. — Walter Wink Copy Share Image
“Personal redemption cannot take place apart from the redemption of our social structures.” — Walter Wink Copy Share Image
The tragedy is not that nonviolence did not work against the Nazis, but that it was so seldom utilized... The churches as a whole… — Walter Wink Copy Share Image
“There is nothing, from DNA to the United Nations, that does not have God at its core. Everything has a spiritual aspect. Everything is… — Walter Wink 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
