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“You can learn all about the human condition from covering the crime beat in a big city - you don't need to go to Beirut for that - but a foreign correspondent begins to understand poverty from a different perspective.”

Needs Humans Different Bigs Cities Poverty Conditions Crime Perspective Beats Human Condition Covering Different Perspective Big Cities Beirut

Author:P. J. O'Rourke

“There's a major underlying idea as you grow up that you need to just save your money and get that affordable housing at the edge of town where you're away from the city where all the crime happens or whatever.”

Needs Ideas Happens Grows Cities Growing Up Crime Majors Towns Edges Housing Affordable Affordable Housing

Author:Conor Oberst

“A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, powerlines, and right-angled surfaces. We need wilderness whether or not we ever set foot in it. We need a refuge even though we may never need to set foot in it. We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope; without it the life of the cities would drive all men into crime or drugs or psychoanalysis.”

Men Needs May Cities Feet Crime Possibility Lovers Drug Lifetime Environmental Leaving Surface Boundaries Wilderness Refuge Psychoanalysis Defenders Asphalt

Book:Desert Solitaire

Source: Desert Solitaire

“I spent my time drinking and staring at a television in the airport bar. More death and destruction. Crime. Pollution. All the news stories were telling me to be frightened. All the commercials were telling me to buy things I didn´t need. The message was that people could only be passive victims or consumers.”

People Needs Stories Media Crime Television Messages News Destruction Victim Drinking Bars Consumers Staring My Time Frightened Pollution Passive Airports News Stories

Author:John Twelve Hawks

“I need not pause to explain that crime is not a disease. It is criminology that is a disease.”

Needs Crime Disease Pauses Criminology

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“but what should we do when the highborn and wealthy take to crime? Indeed, if a poor man will spend a year in prison for stealing out of hunger, how high would the gallows need to be to hang the rich man who breaks the law out of greed?”

Ifs Men Needs Should Years Law Poor Break Rich Crime Prison Greed Hunger Stealing Wealthy Rich Man Poor Man Gallows

Book:Snuff: (Discworld Novel 39)

Source: Snuff: (Discworld Novel 39)

“We laugh at sheep because sheep just follow the one in front. We humans have out-sheeped the sheep, because at least the sheep need a sheep dog to keep them in line. Humans keep each other in line. And they do it by ridiculing or condemning anyone who commits the crime, and that’s what it’s become, of being different.”

Needs Humans Different Lines Laughing Dog Fronts Crime Commit Conformity Sheep Deep Thought Ridicule Being Different Condemning Sheepdogs

Author:David Icke

“Ingratitude is amongst them a capital crime, as we read it to have been in some other countries: for they reason thus; that whoever makes ill-returns to his benefactor, must needs be a common enemy to the rest of the mankind, from where he has received no obligations and therefore such man is not fit to live.”

Men Needs Has Beens Country Reason Common Enemy Mankind Crime Return Fit Ill Obligation Other Countries Ingratitude Benefactors Common Enemy

Author:Jonathan Swift