#crime

Since those who believe they need a hero/celebrity outnumber the actual heroes/celebrities, people feel safe and comfortably justified in numbers, committing egregious crimes in the name of the greater social ego. Ironically diminishing their own true hero-celebrity nature in the process. ↗

— Lauryn Hill

#believe #celebrities #celebrity #comfortably #committing

One of the things I learned is that you've got to deal with the underlying social problems if you want to have an impact on crime - that it's not a coincidence that you see the greatest amount of violent crime where you see the greatest amount of social dysfunction. ↗

— Eric Holder

#coincidence #crime #deal #dysfunction #got

The cure for crime is not the electric chair, but the high chair. ↗

— J. Edgar Hoover

#crime #cure #electric #high

Bigamy is the only crime where two rites make a wrong. ↗

— Bob Hope

#crime #make #only #rites #two

We are often deterred from crime by the disgrace of others. ↗

— Horace

#deterred #disgrace #often #others

I finally faced the fact that it isn't a crime not having friends. Being alone means you have fewer problems. ↗

— Whitney Houston

#being #being alone #crime #faced #fact

Despotism is a long crime. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#despotism #long

Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#crime #peace #virtue #war

Physical nature lies at our feet shackled with a hundred chains. What of the control of human nature? Do not point to the triumphs of psychiatry, social services or the war against crime. Domination of human nature can only mean the domination of every man by himself. ↗

— Johan Huizinga

#chains #control #crime #domination #every

We improved the environment in which our children live, learn and play by decreasing crime and clamping down on abuse and violence in the home and on the streets. ↗

— Jane D. Hull

#children #crime #decreasing #down #environment