That is why I come forward tonight without any political label, without any bias, but just simply as an Englishman to say to you: a crime is being committed against civilization.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Crime takes the pulse of a culture. It tells us the truth about us as a species.
It is necessary to name the enemy of human civilization, and this enemy is international terrorism associated with religious fundamentalism and religious intolerance.
We are often deterred from crime by the disgrace of others.
Crime shapes how we think about the world; it shapes social decisions that we make; it shapes our base of knowledge. But we don't talk about it intelligently.
One of the tests of the civilization of people is the treatment of its criminals.
Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.
Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.
The greatest of all crimes are the wars that are carried on by governments, to plunder, enslave, and destroy mankind.
Murder is not the crime of criminals, but that of law-abiding citizens.
Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit.