{"quotes":[{"text":"I can see how, with enough false education, enough widespread illusion and error, men can, while remaining men, believe this and commit the most unspeakable crimes.","author":"Isaiah Berlin","tags":["crimes","education","illusion"],"id":17339,"author_id":"Isaiah+Berlin"},{"text":"The crimes of children reproduce themselves, closing their victims in cages built of nightmares.","author":"Miri Yū","tags":["cages","children","crimes","nightmares"],"id":47742,"author_id":"Miri+Y%C5%AB"},{"text":"We are waiting and waiting and doing nothing, until it is too late, and they commit crimes so serious that all society wants to do is punish instead of rehabilitate.","author":"Edward Humes","tags":["crimes","punish","rehabilitation","society"],"id":50045,"author_id":"Edward+Humes"},{"text":"I am convinced that imprisonment is a way of pretending to solve the problem of crime. It does nothing for the victims of crime, but perpetuates the idea of retribution, thus maintaining the endless cycle of violence in our culture. It is a cruel and useless substitute for the elimination of those conditions--poverty, unemployment, homelessness, desperation, racism, greed--which are at the root of most punished crime. The crimes of the rich and powerful go mostly unpunished.It must surely be a tribute to the resilience of the human spirit that even a small number of those men and women in the hell of the prison system survive it and hold on to their humanity.","author":"Howard Zinn","tags":["crimes","criminal-justice-system","cycle-of-violence","desperation","greed","homelessness","imprisonment","incarceration","jail","justice","poverty","prison","punishment","racism","retribution","unemployment"],"id":66537,"author_id":"Howard+Zinn"},{"text":"When people can get away with crimes just because they are wealthy or have the right connections, the scales are tipped against fairness and equality. The weight of corruption then becomes so heavy that it creates a dent that forces the world to become slanted, so much so — that justice just slips off.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["bribes","connections","corrupt","corruption","crime","crimes","equality","fairness","favors","get-away-with-crimes","guilty","inequality","injustice","judicial-system","justice","legal-system","politics","slanted","truth","truth-and-justice","unjust","wealthy","world"],"id":68549,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"Sam Temple was taken by helicopter to a hospital in Los Angeles, where there were specialists there in burn injuries. He wasn’t consulted: he was found on his knees, obviously in shock, extensively burned. EMTs took over.Astrid Ellison was taken to a hospital in Santa Barbara, as was Diana Ladris.Other kids were shared out among half a dozen hospitals. Some specialized in plastic surgery, others in the effects of starvation.Over the next week all were seen by psychiatrists once their immediate physical injuries were addressed. Lots of psychiatrists. And when they weren’t being seen by psychiatrists, they were being seen by FBI agents, and California Highway Patrol investigators, and lawyers from the district attorney’s office.The consensus seemed to be that a number of the Perdido survivors, as they were now known, would be prosecuted for crimes ranging from simple assault to murder.First on that list was Sam Temple.","author":"Michael Grant","tags":["astrid-ellison","crimes","diana-ladris","hospital","kids","law","sam-temple"],"id":100814,"author_id":"Michael+Grant"},{"text":"O Liberty! What crimes are committed in thy name!","author":"Madame Roland","tags":["crimes","liberty"],"id":107780,"author_id":"Madame+Roland"},{"text":"Leaders who are silent and do nothing are as guilty and do worse than those who commit these horrific attacks.","author":"George Stamatis","tags":["attack","crimes","crimes-against-humanity","government","horrific-attack","leader","president","prime-minister"],"id":130003,"author_id":"George+Stamatis"},{"text":"[Y]ou are not ashamed of your sin [in committing adultery] because so many men commit it. Man's wickedness is now such that men are more ashamed of chastity than of lechery. Murderers, thieves, perjurers, false witnesses, plunderers and fraudsters are detested and hated by people generally, but whoever will sleep with his servant girl in brazen lechery is liked and admired for it, and people make light of the damage to his soul. And if any man has the nerve to say that he is chaste and faithful to his wife and this gets known, he is ashamed to mix with other men, whose behaviour is not like his, for they will mock him and despise him and say he's not a real man; for man's wickedness is now of such proportions that no one is considered a man unless he is overcome by lechery, while one who overcomes lechery and stays chaste is considered unmanly.","author":"Augustine of Hippo","tags":["adultery","clichés","crimes","double-standards","fidelity","gender","hypocrisy","immorality","manhood","manliness","men","misogyny","perception","promiscuity","social-norms","women"],"id":132788,"author_id":"Augustine+of+Hippo"},{"text":"In it's purest form, an act of retribution provides symmetry. The rendering payment of crimes against the innocent. But a danger on retaliation lies on the furthering cycle of violence. Still, it's a risk that must be met; and the greater offense is to allow the guilty go unpunished.","author":"Emily Thorne","tags":["crimes","guilty","innocent","payment","retaliation","retribution","revenge","revenge-tv-series","symmetry","unpunished","violence"],"id":136531,"author_id":"Emily+Thorne"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":28,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}