“We wanted to describe society from our left point of view. Per had written political books, but they'd only sold 300 copies. We realised that people read crime and through the stories we could show the reader that under the official image of welfare-state Sweden there was another layer of poverty, criminality and brutality.” PeopleBookStatesStoriesShowsWantedPoliticalLeftViewsPovertyWrittenCrimeReaderPoint Of ViewWelfareOfficialsCopiesLayersRealisedBrutalitySwedenWelfare StateCriminality Author:Maj Sjowall
“We are not prepared to consider special category status for certain groups of people serving sentences for crime. Crime is crime is crime, it is not political” PeoplePoliticalCertainGroupsSpecialCrimePreparedSentencesServingCategories Author:Margaret Thatcher
“It is organized violence on top which creates individual violence at the bottom. It is the accumulated indignation against organized wrong, organized crime, organized injustice, which drives the political offender to act.” PoliticalIndividualViolenceCrimeBottomInjusticeOrganizedIndignationOffendersOrganized Crime Author:Emma Goldman
“Funny that all of Nixon's crimes - anonymous campaign cash, wiretapping, undeclared wars - are all legal now. Discuss.” WarLawPoliticalJusticeCrimePoliticianCampaignsUsaPrivacyCashPresidencyDouble StandardDeclaringCampaigningCrimes And Misdemeanors Author:Bill Maher
“If Saddam Hussein committed crimes such as political oppression against the Iraqi people, it should be resolved legally in a fair and just manner which doesn't paint a sense of injustice” PeopleIfsShouldPoliticalCrimeFairsPaintInjusticeCommittedOppressionSaddamHusseinPolitical Oppression Author:Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono
“Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom. GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ, "Felicity", Leibniz: Political Writings Virtue is harder to be got than knowledge of the world; and, if lost in a young man, is seldom recovered. JOHN LOCKE, Some Thoughts Concerning Education However wicked men may be, they do not dare openly to appear the enemies of virtue, and when they desire to persecute her they either pretend to believe her false or attribute crimes to her.” IfsMenWorldWritingBelieveMayYoungPoliticalDesireLostActingEnemyVirtueCrimeHabitHarderDareYoung ManWickedAttributesFelicityWicked ManKnowledge Of The WorldPolitical Writing Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“The question of crime is one of concern to everybody. But the position is that the security forces in our country for the last four decades did not concentrate on suppressing crime. Their main objective was to suppress, to crush political activity. And in the process, crime grew to unacceptable proportions. And criminals were able to form powerful syndicates, and they virtually took over the control of the life of the community in certain areas.” CountryAbleLastsFormPoliticalCertainForceProcessCommunityPowerfulFourSecurityCrimePositionGrewActivityAreasConcernDecadesCriminalsObjectivesOur CountryCrushProportionSuppressingSecurity ForcesSyndicate Author:Nelson Mandela
“A lot is said, by foreigners and the left, about America being a violent society. Yet if you subtract the crime statistics for its largest cities places that have been under the strict political control of so-called "progressives", sometimes for many generations what remains, the real America, is the most peaceful, productive, prosperous, and truly progressive civilization in all of human history.” IfsHumansHas BeensSaidRealSometimesAmericaPoliticalLeftCitiesGenerationsCrimeCivilizationRemainsViolentPeacefulProductiveStatisticsProgressiveStrictHuman HistoryProsperousForeigners Author:L. Neil Smith
“Even though the crime rate has dropped in recent years, the United States has more police per capita then any other nation in the world.” WorldYearsStatesPoliticalNationsUnitedUnited StatesCrimePoliceRateCrime Rates Author:Michael Parenti
“Almost no one under 60 remembers what fundraising was like before Watergate. Until the 1970s, campaign money was collected by "bagmen," familiar characters from the world of organized crime. As fans of Boardwalk Empire know, a bagman is a political fixer who walked around with stacks of $100 and $1,000 bills. At lower levels, he used brown paper bags. In presidential campaigns, the cash was more likely to be in briefcases. Classier that way.” KnowsWorldWayCharacterRememberPoliticalUsedLevelsFansCrimePaperBillsCampaignsFamiliarPresidentialOrganizedBrownEmpiresBagsCashFundraisingWatergateOrganized CrimePresidential CampaignPaper BagsBriefcasesBoardwalksFixersBoardwalk Empire Author:Jonathan Alter
“Anarchists know that a long period of education must precede any great fundamental change in society, hence they do not believe in vote begging, nor political campaigns, but rather in the development of self-thinking individuals. We look away from government for relief, because we know that force (legalized) invades the personal liberty of man, seizes upon the natural elements and intervenes between man and natural laws; from this exercise of force through governments flows nearly all the misery, poverty, crime and confusion existing in society.” ThinkingKnowsMenBelieveLooksLongSelfGovernmentLawPoliticalIndividualForceNaturalLibertyPovertyCrimeDevelopmentPeriodsExerciseElementsFlowVoteFundamentalsMiseryCampaignsConfusionReliefAnarchismAnarchistBeggingNatural LawPolitical CampaignPersonal LibertyChanges In SocietyNatural Elements Author:Lucy Parsons
“It was measured that the splinters of the Armenian nation that had managed to miraculously escape the Genocide would not be able to recover from the blow, would disappear in the whirlpools on five continents, lose their national identity, and aptitude to be a political factor. But we, as a nation and as a state, were able to reappear at the international arena to affirm that we continue our eternal journey and that we are determined not to allow for such a crime to ever happen again.” StatesHappensAblePoliticalNationsLosesFiveJourneyCrimeIdentityEternalInternationalBlowDeterminedDisappearFactorsGenocideContinentsArenaAptitudeArmeniansSplintersNational IdentityWhirlpools Author:Serzh Sargsyan
“I advocate revolutionary changes...an end to capitalist exploitation, the abolition of racist policies, the eradication of sexism and the elimination of political repression. If that is a crime, then I am totally guilty” IfsEndsPoliticalCrimePolicyGuiltyRevolutionaryRacistSexismCapitalistExploitationRepressionAbolitionEliminationRevolutionary Change Author:Assata Shakur
“We make our own criminals, and their crimes are congruent with the national culture we all share. It has been said that a people get the kind of political leadership they deserve. I think they also get the kinds of crime and criminals they themselves bring into being.” PeopleThinkingKindHas BeensSaidPoliticalCultureShareCrimeDeserveCriminalsPolitical LeadershipCrime And CriminalsNational Culture Book:Aspects of the Present Source: Aspects of the Present
“The difference between political terror and ordinary crime becomes clear during the change of regimes, in which former terrorists become well-regarded representatives of their country.” WellsCountryPoliticalDifferencesClearCrimeOrdinaryTerrorTerroristFormerRegimesRepresentatives Author:Jurgen Habermas
“The people are angry. It's running out of control. And unfortunately, there are a group of police that have become nothing more than enforcers for the political and financial crime bosses.” PeopleRunningPoliticalGroupsCrimePoliceAngryFinancialBoss Author:Gerald Celente
“Ben Skinner's brains and courage take us into the belly of the beast and expose the ugly truth of modern slavery. Instead of sensation, A Crime So Monstrous gives us desperately needed insight and analysis. This is an important book, the first deep look into America's confused relationship with human trafficking and slavery today. Skinner's balanced dissection of our government's haphazard policies will be controversial, but it can also be the foundation for a new anti-slavery agenda, one that ends the political games being played with the lives of slaves.” GivingFirstsHumansLooksImportantBookEndsGovernmentTodayAmericaPoliticalGamesBrainModernCrimePolicyNeededFoundationSlaverySlaveUglyInsightAnalysisBeastConfusedAgendasSensationsBalancedBellyControversialMonstrousHuman TraffickingTraffickingBeing PlayedHaphazardDissectionPolitical GamesAnti SlaverySkinnerModern SlaveryUgly TruthSlavery Today Author:Kevin Bales