Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Freedom of speech and thought matters, especially when it is speech and thought with which we disagree. The moment the majority decides to destroy people for engaging in thought it dislikes, thought crime becomes a reality.
Crime is a product of social excess.
If, at the limit, you can rule without crime, you cannot do so without injustices.
When a crime is committed, only the victim and the victim's close circle experience the event as pain, terror, death. To people hearing or reading about it, crime is a metaphor, a symbol of the ancient battles fought every day: evil versus good, chaos versus order.
Where aspirations outstrip opportunities, law-abiding society becomes the victim. Attitudes of contempt toward the law are forged in this crucible and form the inner core of the beliefs of organized adult crime.
A crime is like a crack in reality, and it is the author's role to explore those cracks. As a writer, I like to see how they impinge on people.
Rape, mutilation, abuse, and theft are the natural outcome of a world in which force rules, in which human beings are objects.
In politics, there is only one crime that is unforgivable - showing weakness.
Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.
Murder is not the crime of criminals, but that of law-abiding citizens.