In this country, we force millions of people - who are largely black and brown - into a permanent second-class status simply because they once committed a crime.
Michelle Alexander
PeopleBlackCountryCrimePermanent
To restrict the artist is a crime. It is to murder germinating life.
Egon Schiele
LifeArtistCrimeRestrict
As a musician I tell you that if you were to suppress adultery, fanaticism, crime, evil, the supernatural, there would no longer be the means for writing one note.
Georges Bizet
EvilWritingYouCrimeTellMeans
I'll probably stay in Copenhagen... I can keep writing songs about my local community and about crime.
Lukas Forchhammer
CommunityWritingI CanCrimeStay
Many foreclosed homes are neglected or abandoned, as legal proceedings or other factors delay their resale. Deteriorating or vacant properties can, in turn, directly affect the quality of life in a neighborhood, for example, by leading to increases in vandalism or crime.
Ben Bernanke
LifeQualityLegalCrimeTurnDelay
Crime is a fact of the human species, a fact of that species alone, but it is above all the secret aspect, impenetrable and hidden. Crime hides, and by far the most terrifying things are those which elude us.
Georges Bataille
AloneCrimeHiddenHumanSecretUs
There is one instance that we cite in the report where in one of the conversations a member of organized crime is talking to another member of organized crime and he suggests that Attorney General Kennedy should be murdered.
Louis Stokes
TalkingCrimeOrganizedWhereHe
Many who resort to crime ultimately can't read or write.
Wally Amos
CrimeWriteWhoReadResortMany
I was always obsessed with the 'Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai,' this weird little cult movie. There was this promised sequel before the end credits - 'Buckaroo Banzai Against the World Crime League' - and I knew instinctively they were never going to make that movie, because the first one had made, like, $8 at the box office.
Ernest Cline
WorldEndWeirdCrimeNeverOffice
The Washington Bullets are changing their name. They don't want their team to be associated with crime. From now on, they'll just be known as the Bullets.
Jay Leno
TeamNameNowWantWashingtonCrime
The contemporary crime novel is, at its best, a novel of character. That's where the suspense comes from.
Val McDermid
CharacterBestCrimeSuspenseWhere
The Internal Revenue Service is more ruthless than the Gestapo. Abolish the IRS! Stamp out organized crime!
Evel Knievel
ServiceCrimeMoreOutOrganized
By definition, transnational crime crosses borders, but efforts to combat it mostly do not.
Jared Cohen
CrimeBordersCombatDefinition
I don't read a lot of magazines, but when I'm traveling, I'll pick up a copy of 'Vanity Fair' to read on the plane - it's like a full meal! The articles are so good, especially the crime stories. Browsing the Web is more like snacking - but I live on snacks.
Sam Trammell
GoodLiveVanityCopyCrimeMore
Crime in full glory consolidates authority by the sacred fear it inspires.
Emil Cioran
FearGloryAuthorityCrimeSacred
Crime to many is not crime but simply a way of life. If laws are inconvenient, ignore them, they don't apply to you.
Dick Francis
LifeIgnoreYouCrimeWayLaws
Victims of crime and the wider community deserve a grown-up debate on our criminal justice system and how we can make it work - for those within it and for those it protects.
Sadiq Khan
WorkCommunityJusticeDebateCrime
'Dark Blue' is ultimately a gritty crime drama, at its core. I don't think that is ever going to change.
Dylan McDermott
ChangeBlueThinkDarkDramaCrime
I see no kind of reason to not just try everything. I mean, I feel like we all have such varied tastes, and to not just try our tastes is a crime.
Dev Hynes
FeelKindCrimeTryMeanSee
Transnational organized crime does not recognize any borders.
Patricia Espinosa
CrimeBordersOrganizedRecognize
There are some terrorist organizations, there are some organized crime organizations, that launder money through charities and make donations to charities. That's not the purpose of charitable donations in Canada, so we're becoming increasingly strict on the subject.
Jim Flaherty
MoneyPurposeCanadaCrimeOrganized
Kickback is a police thriller which I wrote. I'm very proud of it. I did it in two parts for France because when I wrote it, there wasn't the audience demand for crime stuff that there is now.
David Lloyd
PoliceProudNowCrimeTwoAudience
There's a real emphasis on being witty in Scotland, even in crime novels.
Denise Mina
CrimeWittyRealBeingScotland
When I was growing up there, North Gulfport was referred to as 'Little Vietnam' because of the perception of crime and depravity within its borders - as if its denizens were simply a congregation of the downtrodden.
Natasha Trethewey
Growing UpPerceptionGrowingCrime
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