“If suicide be supposed a crime, it is only cowardice can impel us to it. If it be no crime, both prudence and courage should engage us to rid ourselves at once of existence when it becomes a burden. It is the only way that we can then be useful to society, by setting an example which, if imitated, would preserve every one his chance for happiness in life, and would effectually free him from all danger or misery.” IfsWayShouldChanceExistenceCrimeDangerExampleSuicideMiseryBurdenSettingSettingsPreservesCowardicePrudenceLife HappinessSetting An Example Book:Essays: Moral, Political and Literary Source: Essays: Moral, Political and Literary
“In my opinion while lynchings were quite possibly the most heinous crimes ever witnessed in American history, they helped in bringing people together for a sole purpose. It was because of these lynchings that armed self-resistance was created. If white people knew black people were capable of fighting back then there was less of a chance that violence actually would break out.” PeopleIfsSelfTogetherPurposeFightingBlackChanceWhiteOpinionBreakViolenceCrimeCapableResistanceBlack PeopleSoleAmerican HistoryBreak OutLynchingFighting BackHeinous Crimes Author:Assata Shakur
“With the law books filled with a great assortment of crimes, a prosecutor stands a fair chance of finding at least a technical violation of some act on the part of almost anyone. In such a case, it is not a question of discovering the commission of a crime and then looking for the man who has committed it, it is a question of picking the man and then searching the law books, or putting investigators to work, to pin some offense on him.” MenBookLawPoliticalChanceCasesDemocracyCrimeHe ManFindingsFairsFilledCommittedDiscoveringOffensePinsViolationProsecutorInvestigatorsLaw Books Author:Robert H. Jackson
“Giving a 10-year mandatory minimum for a second offense fist fight is not going to reduce the chance that someone will be stabbed 16 times when you are not funding any of the programs that are desperately needed to actually reduce juvenile crime.” GivingYearsFightingChanceCrimeNeededProgramMinimumOffenseFistsFundingSecond ChanceJuvenile Author:Bobby Scott
“Religion's biggest crime is to slow down the Human's Intellectual Evolution! It creates an illusion as if there is a safe port somewhere. The truth is that there is no safe port; man is in emptiness! Intellectual Evolution is our only chance to build a safe port by ourselves!” IfsMenHumansChanceCrimeEvolutionTruth IsSafeIntellectualIllusionEmptinessSlow DownPort Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan
“As far as U.S. intelligence knows, Iran is developing nuclear capacities, but they don't know if they are trying to develop nuclear weapons or not. Chances are they're developing what's called 'nuclear capability,' which many states have. That is the ability to have nuclear weapons if they decide to do it. That's not a crime.” IfsKnowsTryingStatesChanceAbilityCrimeWeaponsCapacityNuclearDevelopingIranCapabilityNuclear WeaponsChances Are Author:Noam Chomsky