More quotations tagged with “crime”
Getting a living under capitalism… is so precarious, so uncertain, fraught with such pain and struggle that the wonder is not that so many people become vicious and criminal, but that so many remain in docile submission to such a tyrannous and debasing condition.
—Eugene V. Debs
New York now leads the world's great cities in the number of people around whom you shouldn't make a sudden move.
—David Letterman
Poverty is like punishment for a crime you didn't commit.
—Eli Khamarov
Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.
—Voltaire
When the judge calls the criminal's name out, he stands up, and they are immediately linked by a strange biology that makes them both opposite and complementary. The one cannot exist without the other. Which is the sun and which is the shadow? It's well known some criminals have been great men.
—Jean Genet