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“It is indeed strange that with all the knowledge we have gained in the past hundred years we preserve and practice the methods of an ancient and barbarous world in our dealing with crime. So long as this is observed and exercised there can be no change except to heap more cruelties and more wretchedness upon those who are the victims of our foolish system.”

World Years Long Past Practice Crime Strange Hundred Method Victim Ancient Foolish Cruelty Preserves Wretchedness

Book:The Story of My Life

Source: The Story of My Life

“There are various methods by which you may achieve ignominy and shame. By murdering a large and respected family in cold blood and afterward depositing their bodies in the water companies' reservoir, you will gain much unpopularity in the neighborhood of your crime, and even robbing a church will get you cordially disliked, especially by the vicar. But if you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human creature can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby "it.”

Source: Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow

“The method of electrocution would be much better than the old method of hanging.”

Would Be Crime Method Punishment

Author:Meldrim Thomson, Jr.

“If crime is going down, you shouldn't be increasing resources for crime prevention. Or you should be taking note of what has worked and concentrate the crime-prevention methods on policies that have a track record of success.”

Ifs Should Records Crime Policy Resources Method Notes Track Prevention Track Record

Author:Steven Pinker

“A method of procuring sensations? Do you think then, that a man who has once committed a murder could possibly do the same crime again? Don't tell me that." says Dorian. "Oh! anything becomes a pleasure if one does it too often," says Lord Henry”

Ifs Thinking Men Doe Pleasure Lord Crime Murder Method Committed Sensations Lord Henry

Author:Oscar Wilde

“When one has no character, one HAS to apply a method. Here it did wonders incontrovertibly, and I am living on the site of one of the greatest crimes in human history.”

Humans Character Wonder Crime Method Site Human History Living On

Book:The fall

Source: The fall

“...but this is the real objection to that torrent of modern talk about treating crime as disease, about making prison merely a hygienic environment like a hospital, of healing sin by slow scientific methods. The fallacy of the whole thing is that evil is a matter of active choice whereas disease is not.”

Real Matter Whole Choices Evil Sin Healing Environment Modern Crime Disease Method Prison Active Hospitals Objections Fallacy Scientific Method

Book:The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton

Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions.”

Trying Mind Soul Action Attitude Crime Habit Taste Method Your Soul Revealing Vary Crime And Criminals Criminals Crime

Book:Surprise Endings by Hercule Poirot: Including The A. B. C. Murders, Murder in Three Acts, and Cards on the Table

Source: Surprise Endings by Hercule Poirot: Including The A. B. C. Murders, Murder in Three Acts, and Cards on the Table

“The kingly office is entitled to no respect. It was originally procured by the highwayman's methods. It remains a perpetuated crime, can never be anything but the symbol of a crime. It is no more entitled to respect than is the flag of a pirate.”

Crime Office Respect Method Remains Symbols Flags Entitled Pirate No Respect Highwaymen

Book:Mark Twain and the three R's: race, religion, revolution--and related matters

Source: Mark Twain and the three R's: race, religion, revolution--and related matters

“The time will come when all people will view with horror light way in which society and its courts of law now take human life; and when that time comes, the way will be clear to device some better method of dealing with poverty and ignorance and their frequent byproducts, which we call crime.”

People Way Humans Light Law Views Poverty Clear Crime Ignorance Horror Method Court Human Life Devices Death Penalty

Author:Clarence Darrow

“The money power preys on the nation in times of peace, and conspires against it in times of adversity. It is more despotic than monarchy, more insolent than autocracy, more selfish than bureaucracy. It denounces, as public enemies, all who question its methods or throw light upon its crimes.”

“And who can suffer injury by just taxation, impartial laws and the application of the Jeffersonian doctrine of equal rights to all and special privileges to none? Only those whose accumulations are stained with dishonesty and whose immoral methods have given them a distorted view of business, society and government. Accumulating by conscious frauds more money than they can use upon themselves, wisely distribute or safely leave to their children, these denounce as public enemies all who question their methods or throw a light upon their crimes.”

“Drug offenses ... may be regarded as the prototypes of non-victim crimes today. The private nature of the sale and use of these drugs has led the police to resort to methods of detection and surveillance that intrude upon our privacy, including illegal search, eavesdropping, and entrapment. Indeed, the successful prosecution of such cases often requires police infringement of the constitutional protections that safeguard the privacy of individuals.”

“A Resource-Based Economy is in the application of the methods of science with human concern and environmental concern. If we used the scientific method throughout the world, the probability of war drops to zero. The probability of human suffering disappears. Deprivation, poverty, crime - all those things tend to disappear because there's no basis. I'm strictly concerned with the environment that people are raised in and if that environment is altered, so will behaviors be altered.”