#crime

Have not prisons - which kill all will and force of character in man, which enclose within their walls more vices than are met with on any other spot of the globe - always been universities of crime? ↗

— Peter Kropotkin

#any #been #character #crime #enclose

And then there was her face: her white skin, her brown eyes, and her expression, so soft and beautiful; she looked as though she were constantly getting ready to ask a question. Even an immaculately crafted doll could not have been as lovely. ↗

— Natsuo Kirino

#japanese #beauty

Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime. ↗

— John Ruskin

#effective #hands #instrument #last #least

The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

#consequence #crimes #her #means #most

Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

#adds #brother #crime #does #excuse

Homosexuality in Russia is a crime and the punishment is seven years in prison, locked up with the other men. There is a three year waiting list. ↗

— Yakov Smirnoff

#homosexuality #list #locked #locked up #men

I read 'Crime and Punishment' years ago and don't recall the details of it, but I do retain a strong sense of the creeping paranoia and panic. ↗

— Arthur Smith

#creeping #crime #details #i #i do

I think it's too bad that everybody's decided to turn on drugs, I don't think drugs are the problem. Crime is the problem. Cops are the problem. Money's the problem. But drugs are just drugs. ↗

— Jerry Garcia

#cops #crime #decided #everybody #i

Targets don't fight crime. ↗

— Theresa May

#fight #targets

Once bitten twice shy? Sure, but... why not get a bigger dog and bite them back? ↗

— A.A. Bell

#bell #bit #comedy #crime #dogs