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"When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw."
― Nelson Mandela

"I came from a real tough neighborhood. Once a guy pulled a knife on me. I knew he wasn't a professional, the knife had butter on it."
― Rodney Dangerfield

"Don't compromise yourself - you're all you have."
― John Grisham, The Rainmaker

"Once I pulled a job, I was so stupid. I picked a guy's pocket on an airplane and made a run for it."
― Rodney Dangerfield

"The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes."
― Arthur Conan Doyle; Corrections And Editor Edgar W. Smith; Illustrators, The Hound of the Baskervilles

"All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride."
― Sophocles, Antigone

"There is not a crime, there is not a dodge, there is not a trick, there is not a swindle, there is not a vice which does not live by secrecy."
― Joseph Pulitzer

"Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime."
― Aristotle

"Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in the world. If I moved to a martial-arts monastery in China and studied real hard for ten years. If my family was wiped out by Colombian drug dealers and I swore myself to revenge. If I got a fatal disease, had one year to live, and devoted it to wiping out street crime. If I just dropped out and devoted my life to being bad."
― Neal Stephenson

"A good act does not wash out the bad, nor a bad act the good. Each should have its own reward."
― George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings

"The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment."
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

"Good. Illegal is always faster."
― Eoin Colfer

"Some people steal to stay alive, and some steal to feel alive. Simple as that."
― V.E. Schwab, A Darker Shade of Magic

"To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace"
― Malcolm X

"There are crimes of passion and crimes of logic. The boundary between them is not clearly defined."
― Albert Camus

"Criminals should be punished, not fed pastries."
― Lemony Snicket, The Blank Book

"There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws."
― Ayn Rand

"I think that God that we have created and allowed to shape our culture through, essentially Christian theology is a pretty villainous creature. I think that one of the things that male patriarchal figure has done is, allowed under it's, his church, his wing, all kinds of corruptions and villainies to grow and fester. In the name of that God terrible wars have been waged, in the name of that God terrible sexism has been allowed to spread. There are children being born all across this world that don't have enough food to eat because that God, at least his church, tells the mothers and fathers that they must procreate at all costs, and to prevent procreation with a condom is in contravention with his laws. Now, I don't believe that God exists. I think that God is creation of men, by men, and for men. What has happened over the many centuries now, the better part of two thousand in fact, is that that God has been slowly and steadily accruing power. His church has been accruing power, and the men who run that church, and they are all men, are not about to give it up. If they give it up, they give up luxury, they give up comfort."
― Clive Barker

"Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men."
― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman

"The ORDINARY RESPONSE TO ATROCITIES is to banish them from consciousness. Certain violations of the social compact are too terrible to utter aloud: this is the meaning of the word unspeakable.

Atrocities, however, refuse to be buried. Equally as powerful as the desire to deny atrocities is the conviction that denial does not work. Folk wisdom is filled with ghosts who refuse to rest in their graves until their stories are told. Murder will out. Remembering and telling the truth about terrible events are prerequisites both for the restoration of the social order and for the healing of individual victims.

The conflict between the will to deny horrible events and the will to proclaim them aloud is the central dialectic of psychological trauma. People who have survived atrocities often tell their stories in a highly emotional, contradictory, and fragmented manner that undermines their credibility and thereby serves the twin imperatives of truth-telling and secrecy. When the truth is finally recognized, survivors can begin their recovery. But far too often secrecy prevails, and the story of the traumatic event surfaces not as a verbal narrative but as a symptom.

The psychological distress symptoms of traumatized people simultaneously call attention to the existence of an unspeakable secret and deflect attention from it. This is most apparent in the way traumatized people alternate between feeling numb and reliving the event. The dialectic of trauma gives rise to complicated, sometimes uncanny alterations of consciousness, which George Orwell, one of the committed truth-tellers of our century, called "doublethink," and which mental health professionals, searching for calm, precise language, call "dissociation." It results in protean, dramatic, and often bizarre symptoms of hysteria which Freud recognized a century ago as disguised communications about sexual abuse in childhood. . . ."
― Judith Lewis Herman, Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror

"Behind every successful fortune there is a crime."
― Mario Puzo, The Godfather

"The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual, crime."
― Max Stirner

"Before you call yourself a Christian, Buddhist, Muslim, Hindu or any other theology, learn to be human first."
― Shannon L. Alder

"I'm convinced that most men don't know what they believe, rather, they only know what they wish to believe. How many people blame God for man's atrocities, but wouldn't dream of imprisoning a mother for her son's crime?"
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

"If you think your boss is stupid, remember: you wouldn't have a job if he was any smarter."
― John Gottman (

"No amount of me trying to explain myself was doing any good. I didn't even know what was going on inside of me, so how could I have explained it to them?"
― Sierra D. Waters, Debbie.

"I can smack a ball-bearing between your abusive fiancé's eyes before his wingtips hit the sidewalk."
― M S M Barkawitz, Feeling Lucky

"You've a pretty good nerve," said Ratchett. "Will twenty thousand dollars tempt you?"

It will not."

If you're holding out for more, you won't get it. I know what a thing's worth to me."

I, also M. Ratchett."

What's wrong with my proposition?"

Poirot rose. "If you will forgive me for being personal - I do not like your face, M. Ratchett," he said."
― Agatha Christie, Murder on the Orient Express

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