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“Many writers claim that nearly all crime is caused by economic conditions, or in other words that poverty is practically the whole cause of crime. Endless statistics have been gathered on this subject which seem to show conclusively that property crimes are largely the result of the unequal distribution of wealth. But crime of any class cannot be safely ascribed to a single cause. Life is too complex, heredity is too variant and imperfect, too many separate things contribute to human behavior, to make it possible to trace all actions to a single cause.”

“Of crimes injurious to the persons of private subjects, the most principal and important is the offense of taking away that life, which is the immediate gift of the great creator; and which therefore no man can be entitled to deprive himself or another of, but in some manner either expressly commanded in, or evidently deducible from, those laws which the creator has given us; the divine laws, I mean, of either nature or revelation.”

Men Mean Persons Important Law Given Subjects Crime Divine Creator Revelations Principal Entitled Offense Divine Law

Book:Commentaries on the laws of England: in four books, with an analysis of the work

Source: Commentaries on the laws of England: in four books, with an analysis of the work

“Prostitution is really the only crime in the penal law where two people are doing a thing mutually agreed upon and yet only one, the female partner, is subject to arrest.”

People Two Law Subjects Crime Female Partners Prostitution

Book:The prostitution papers:

Source: The prostitution papers:

“Remarriage is or is not approved in shastra; I have no authority to speak on this subject. But I surely cannot go on without saying this much, that remarriage has helped a great deal in stopping crime in Fiji.”

Speak Deals Subjects Crime Goes On Authority Stopping Approved Fiji Remarriage

Book:My twenty-one years in the Fiji Islands ; and, The story of the haunted line

Source: My twenty-one years in the Fiji Islands ; and, The story of the haunted line

“The liberty of the press would be an empty sound, and no man would venture to write on any subject, however, pure his purpose, without an attorney at one elbow and a counsel at the other. From minds thus subdued by the fear of punishment, there could issue no works of genius to expand the empire of human reason.”

“Victimless crimes are the lifeline of the RIGHT virus. And there is a growing recognition, even in official quarters, that victimless crimes should be removed from the books or subject to minimal penalties.”

Should Book Growing Subjects Crime Recognition Officials Quarters Penalties Viruses Lifelines

Book:The Place of Dead Roads: A Novel

Source: The Place of Dead Roads: A Novel

“There's a War Crimes Act in the United States passed by a Republican Congress in 1996, which says that grave breaches of the Geneva Convention are subject to the death penalty. And that doesn't mean the soldier that committed them - that means the commanders.”

Mean War States United United States Subjects Crime Republican Soldier Congress Committed Graves Conventions Penalties Death Penalty Commanders Breach War Crimes Geneva Geneva Convention

Author:Noam Chomsky