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5. “The importation and sale of marijuana is condemned and punished as a serious crime, but we accept as legitimate the manufacture and sale of an infinitely more addictive and deadly drug: the nicotine in cigarettes that cost the lives of 390,000 American citizens last year.”
Jimmy Carter
Marijuana, Nicotine, Crime, Addiction, Hypocrisy
7. “Crime is incurable, save by that gradual process of adaptation to the social state which humanity is undergoing. Crime is the continual breaking out of the old unadapted nature – the index of a character unfitted to its conditions – and only as fast as the unfitness diminishes can crime diminish.” Herbert Spencer Crime, Society, Adaptation, Humanity, Change
18. “Who most benefits from keeping marijuana illegal? The greatest beneficiaries are the major criminal organizations in Mexico and elsewhere that earn billions of dollars annually from this illicit trade – and who would rapidly lose their competitive advantage if marijuana were a legal commodity.” George Soros Marijuana, Illegal Trade, Crime, Legalization, Economics
38. “I must intervene in teaching the peasants that their hunger is socially constructed and work with them to help identify those responsible for this social construction, which is, in my view, a crime against humanity. Therefore, we need to intervene not only pedagogically but also ethically.” Paulo Freire Hunger, Social Construction, Intervention, Crime, Humanity
39. “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.” Howard Zinn Crime, Poverty, Violence, Retribution, Social Issues
50. “In a well governed state, there are few punishments, not because there are many pardons, but because criminals are rare; it is when a state is in decay that the multitude of crimes is a gaurantee of impunity.” Jean-Jacques Rousseau Governance, Crime, Social Order, Justice System, Political Philosophy
Crime Quotes by Famous Authors
5. “The importation and sale of marijuana is condemned and punished as a serious crime, but we accept as legitimate the manufacture and sale of an infinitely more addictive and deadly drug: the nicotine in cigarettes that cost the lives of 390,000 American citizens last year.”
Jimmy Carter Marijuana, Nicotine, Crime, Addiction, Hypocrisy
7. “Crime is incurable, save by that gradual process of adaptation to the social state which humanity is undergoing. Crime is the continual breaking out of the old unadapted nature – the index of a character unfitted to its conditions – and only as fast as the unfitness diminishes can crime diminish.”
Herbert Spencer Crime, Society, Adaptation, Humanity, Change
18. “Who most benefits from keeping marijuana illegal? The greatest beneficiaries are the major criminal organizations in Mexico and elsewhere that earn billions of dollars annually from this illicit trade – and who would rapidly lose their competitive advantage if marijuana were a legal commodity.”
George Soros Marijuana, Illegal Trade, Crime, Legalization, Economics
38. “I must intervene in teaching the peasants that their hunger is socially constructed and work with them to help identify those responsible for this social construction, which is, in my view, a crime against humanity. Therefore, we need to intervene not only pedagogically but also ethically.”
Paulo Freire Hunger, Social Construction, Intervention, Crime, Humanity
39. “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.”
Howard Zinn Crime, Poverty, Violence, Retribution, Social Issues
50. “In a well governed state, there are few punishments, not because there are many pardons, but because criminals are rare; it is when a state is in decay that the multitude of crimes is a gaurantee of impunity.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau Governance, Crime, Social Order, Justice System, Political Philosophy
