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Topic·Crime✕clear

Travel writing

Necessity knows no law.

Mark Twain

The Innocents Abroad · 1869

★ 4.0

Play · Tragic play · Greek theater

Neither anarchy nor tyranny—this I counsel my citizens to support and respect, and not to drive fear wholly out of the city. For who among mortals, if he fears nothing, is righteous?

Aeschylus

The Eumenides · 458 BC

★ 3.7

Speech · Political speech

Necessity hath no law.

Oliver Cromwell

1654

★ 3.7

Song · Folk

Yes, as through this world I've wandered I've seen lots of funny men Some will rob you with a six-gun And some with a fountain pen.

Woody Guthrie

Pretty Boy Floyd · 1964

★ 3.6

Crime is a sociopolitical artifact, not a natural phenomenon. We can have as much or as little crime as we please, depending on what we choose to count as criminal.

Herbert L. Packer

The Limits of the Criminal Sanction · 1968

★ 3.4

Essay · Magazine · Political literature

Starvation, and not sin, is the parent of modern crime.

Oscar Wilde

Fortnightly Review · 1891

★ 2.1

Film · Road movie · Buddy movie · Comedry drama (film) · Comedy drama

I know it's crazy, but I just feel like I got a knack for this shit.

Thelma

Thelma & Louise · 1991

★ 2.1

Essay

Crime is naught but misdirected energy.

Emma Goldman

1910

★ 2.0

Speech · Political speech

One legislator accused me of having a nineteenth-century attitude on law and order. That is a totally false charge. I have an eighteenth-century attitude. That is when the Founding Fathers made it clear that the safety of law-abiding citizens should be one of the government's primary concerns.

Ronald Reagan

1973

★ 1.9

Legal opinion · Legal writing

Our procedure has been always haunted by the ghost of the innocent man convicted. It is an unreal dream. What we need to fear is the archaic formalism and the watery sentiment that obstructs, delays, and defeats the prosecution of crime.

Learned Hand

United States v. Garsson · 1923

★ 1.8

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