“If one steps out on a starry night and observes one's inner state, one asks if one could hate or be overwhelmed by envy or resentment. ... Is it not true that no man or woman has ever committed a crime while in a state of wonder?” IfsMenStatesNightHateAsksWonderStepsCrimeCommittedEnvyResentmentOverwhelmedStarry NightState Of Wonder Author:Jacob Needleman
“I wonder if those experts who tell us that our sexual appetite is the strongest know what real thirst feels like; I can imagine the desire for water driving someone to commit a crime to which sexual desire could never drive them.” IfsKnowsFeelsI CanRealDesireWaterWonderImagineCrimeDrivingCommitExpertsStrongestAppetiteThirstSexual Desire Author:Dervla Murphy
“adolescence is a sort of underworld we have to live through. Everything is in us, even vice and crime. At the same time we discover free will. I wonder that it doesn't tear us off our bases for good and all.” WonderCrimeTearsBasesVicesFree WillAdolescenceUnderworld Book:Reprisal Source: Reprisal
“I cannot avoid wondering about the feelings of those who are now the apparent rulers of Iran. They are, despite their mistakes and the crimes which they have instigated, men of faith who claim to be sent by God. I hope they will eventually realize that the revolution which they believe they have brought about is not to the glory of God, but serves the forces of evil.” MenBelieveFeelingsEvilForceRealizingMistakeWonderCrimeRevolutionGloryClaimsDespiteIranRulersGlory Of God Author:Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
“It has long been a source of wonder to me why the leading criminological writers--men like Edmund Lester Pearson, H. B. Irving, Filson Young, Canon Brookes, William Bolitho, and Harold Eaton--have not devoted more space to the Greene tragedy; for here, surely, is one of the outstanding murder mysteries of modern times--a case practically unique in the annals of latter-day crime.” MenLongBookYoungSpaceWonderCasesMysteryModernCrimeSourceUniqueTragedyMurderLatterDevotedOutstandingModern TimesCanonLatter DaysMurder Mysteries Book:The Greene Murder Case Source: The Greene Murder Case
“The history of woman is the history of the continued and universal oppression of one sex by the other. The emancipation of woman is her restoration to equal rights and privileges with man.... Need we wonder, then, at the sad spectacle which humanity offers us? Its hideous wars, its social abominations, its foul creeds, its treacheries, vices, wants, diseases, lusts, tyrannies, and crimes are the natural outcome of the subjugation of one half of the human race by the other.” MenWantNeedsHumansWarHumanitySocialSexNaturalRaceHalfWonderRightsCrimeOffersEqualDiseaseUniversalPrivilegeVicesLustTyrannyOppressionHuman RaceOutcomesCreedsEqual RightsRestorationFoulHideousEmancipationTreacheryOne HalfAbominationSubjugationRights And Privileges Author:Tennessee Celeste Claflin
“I wonder if it's ethical to watch a man with binoculars and a long-focus lens? D'ya suppose it's ethical even if you prove that he didn't commit a crime? I'm not much on rear window ethics.” IfsMenLongWonderWatchesFocusCrimeProveEthicsWindowCommitEthicalLensesBinocularsRear Window Author:John Michael Hayes
“But I wonder where we will land if trial judges begin deciding that the fact that a man has committed an atrocious crime is proof sufficient that he is not responsible for his acts.” IfsMenFactsWonderLandCrimeJudgingResponsibleCommittedProofTrialsSufficient Author:H. L. Mencken
“Depictions or expressions of sex, violence, crime are all permitted virtually without limit; but religion, it seems, never.No wonder many in America seem to believe that the court has become one more inclined to protect pornography than to protect religious expression.” BelieveSeemsAmericaSexReligiousWonderViolenceCrimeExpressionProtectLimitsCourtPornographyDepiction Author:John Cornyn