#rim

That is why I come forward tonight without any political label, without any bias, but just simply as an Englishman to say to you: a crime is being committed against civilization. ↗

— John Amery

#any #being #bias #civilization #come

In a free world there is, alas, more common crime than in a dictatorial system. ↗

— Barbara Amiel

#common #crime #dictatorial #free #free world

All attempts at law, all religion, all ethical norms might be nothing more than attempts by the weak to restrain the strong. Then, within the law, arise the new strong, who subvert the law for their own ends of power and family interest, leaving the old strong outside their circle to pursue the waiting possibilities which they call crime. The weak, the cowardly, the decent ones, live between these groups. ↗

— George Zebrowski

#morals #punishment #family

I have written a lot about snakes. There's something pretty primordial about it. ↗

— Laurie Anderson

#i #lot #pretty #primordial #snakes

For each of us who appear to have had a successful experiment there are many to whom their own experiments seem barren and negative. ↗

— Melvin Calvin

#barren #each #experiment #experiments #had

Merciful heavens! Human treatment may even render human a man in whom the image of God has long ago been tarnished. It is these 'unfortunates' that must be treated in the most human fashion. This is their salvation and their joy. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#criminals #humane #rehabilitation #religion #religion

The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit. ↗

— Samuel Gompers

#company #crime #fails #operate #people

I have also been saddened, though hardly surprised, by the weakness of the EU's reaction to the criminal attack on the Danish embassy in Syria, which seems to have been permitted, if not actively encouraged, by the Syrian regime. ↗

— Timothy Garton Ash

#also #attack #been #criminal #danish

It doesn't help to wait until something happens and then prosecute the offenders, especially if it's the idea of the offender to extinguish himself in the commission of the crime. ↗

— John Ashcroft

#crime #especially #extinguish #happens #help

I'm not a propagandist, I'm not a polemicist; my primary interest is just looking at and trying to understand how animals work. ↗

— David Attenborough

#i #interest #just #just looking #looking