Crime Quotes

I think there are certain crimes which the law cannot touch, and which therefore, to some extent, justify private revenge.

— What precisely is Michael's crime?
— He's my younger brother.

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Finding Neverland

Sir James Matthew Barrie

George Llewelyn Davies

Brothers

Ironic Quotes

Indeed, I have found that it is usually in unimportant matters that there is a field for the observation, and for the quick analysis of cause and effect which gives the charm to an investigation. The larger crimes are apt to be the simpler, for the bigger the crime the more obvious, as a rule, is the motive.

The US also began bombing the dams near Pyongyang, North Korea, causing enormous floods and destroying the rice crop. The Nuremberg Tribunal had condemned similar actions by Nazis in Holland in 1944 as a war crime.

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The Untold History of the United States

Freelance journalist S. Hersh in nov. 1969 broke the news that a year and a half earlier US forces had massacred up to 500 civilians in the village of My Lai nicknamed Pinkville for its strong enemy sympathies. Babies, pregnant women and old people had been scalped and mutilated as command of the situation broke down. Not a single shot had been clearly fired at US forces. Indicative of the growing dehumanization of this time, and resembling US attitudes towards the Japanese in WW2 65% of Americans told pollsters they were not bothered by the news of massacre. The only officer found guilty was given a partial pardon by Nixon public opinion strongly in favor.

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The Untold History of the United States

Similar atrocities occurred in neighboring El Salvador, where US trained troops stabbed de-capitated, raped and machine gunned 767 civilians in the village of El Mozote in late 1981, including 358 children under age 13. Congress ended up funneling almost $6 billion to this tiny country making it the largest recipient of US foreign aid per capita in the world. Wealthy landlords were running the right-wing death squads that murdered thousands of suspected leftists. The death toll from the war reached 70,000.

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The Untold History of the United States

There's the law, then there's justice.

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Battlefield: Hardline

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Punishment

Meaningful Quotes

Whenever you’re going after something that belongs to you, anyone who’s depriving you of the right to have it is a criminal. Understand that. Whenever you are going after something that is yours, you are within your legal rights to lay claim to it. And anyone who puts forth any effort to deprive you of that which is yours, is breaking the law, is a criminal.

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Malcolm X

Law

— Now, the subject of today's lesson is crime. Yeah? All right? You're liking me now. So for every need there is a misdeed. And what our need is,
in this particular instance, girls, is to get our hands on half a bar. That's half a million pounds for you little ladies. Any ideas? Who's got an idea? Anyone? Yes? Shut up! You!
— What about extortion?
— Excellent. Well done. Yes. Brilliant Extortion. Now, I know a lot of people think the old, "Give me your money or else," is a bit old hat, but it's a classic, it's perennial, possible. Good work Now who else has got any ideas? Go on, Celia.
— Confidence trickery.
— Confidence trickery. Excellent!
— Credit card fraud.
— Credit card fraud!
— Kidnapping, Flash.
— Kidnapping! That is more like it. Kid... napping!
— So, we take a rich man's wife...
— Excellent.
— ...cut off her ear... and then send it to him special delivery. And then... we just keep chopping... bits of her off... until he pays the ransom.
— You shouldn't be laughing at that. That is too much evil. You should see a counsellor. Don't leave her on her own.

Celia («Trustafarian»)

Andrea (the Emo)

Ideas

Ironic Quotes

Evil is the driving force of a story. We must find a sacrificial victim, preferably someone who's innocent. The leading character must be evasive, everyone should suspect him. In literature people kill for hate, but in real life, the motive is usually money.

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La ragazza nella nebbia

— Were it possible, I would have told him before now.
— So you knew all about Voisin?
— Of course. The Court is France. Without evidence, the King cannot act.
— Must I remind you that they are killing infants?
— Perhaps, by letting a few die, thousands more are saved. I shall inform him about the poison when the time is right, and everyone shall know. In the meantime, I beg you, leave Court.
— Never! I am a woman, and the life of even a single child means everything to me.

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Angelique Et Le Roi

François Desgrez

Angélique de Peyrac de Morens d'Irristru, marquise du Plessis-Bellière

Truth

Children

Murder

For where no law is, there is no transgression.

I will not accuse one that is not even born yet of crimes. Nothing is born evil and nothing is useless to the world.
No one has the right to punish a creature until it is given a chance to live.

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