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“Prosecutors say my father was the biggest crime boss in the nation... If you really want to know what John Gotti was like, you need to talk to my family. We lived this life.”

Ifs Knows Want Needs Father Nations Crime Like You My Family This Life Boss Prosecutor

Author:Victoria Gotti

“If poverty is the mother of all crimes, lack of intelligence is the father.”

Ifs Mother Father Poverty Crime Stupidity

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“The children of the white families in town were not permitted to associate with me, because my father was committing the then unpardonable crime, in Southern eyes, of educating negroes.”

Children Eye Father White Crime Towns Southern Associates

Author:Lee De Forest

“Most of the kids that I meet in the street are serious hardened criminals that I meet in the street, never had a mother and a father to love them, to protect them, to teach them right from wrong and lead them out of crime and gangs and stuff like that.”

Kids Mother Father Stuff Teach Streets Crime Serious Protect Criminals Gang Hardened

Author:Steven Seagal

“I am thy father's spirit; Doom'd for a certain term to walk the night And, for the day, confin'd to fast in fires, Till the foul crimes, done in my days of nature, Are burnt and purg'd away.”

Done Spirit Night Certain Father Term Walks Fire Crime Doom Foul

Book:The Plays of William Shakespeare in Ten Volumes: With Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators

Source: The Plays of William Shakespeare in Ten Volumes: With Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators

“I was a big reader as a child. My father is a great book lover and a librarian, but he forbid me to read bad literature. I was not allowed to read Nancy Drew or books like that. I often say to him that me becoming a crime author is both a way of pleasing him and annoying him.”

Way Children Book Bigs Father Literature Crime Reader Becoming Lovers Annoying Librarian Great Book Nancy Book Lover Nancy Drew

Author:Asa Larsson

“Much is made of the accelerating brutality of young people's crimes, but rarely does our concern for dangerous children translateinto concern for children in danger. We fail to make the connection between the use of force on children themselves, and violent antisocial behavior, or the connection between watching father batter mother and the child deducing a link between violence and masculinity.”

Source: Family politics: love and power on an intimate frontier