Criminalized Quotes

#1. Pregnancy and childbirth are not only physical and medical experiences, after all. They are also social experiences that, in modern America, just as when abortion was criminalized in the 1870s, serve to restrict women's ability to participate in society on equal footing with men.

Katha Pollitt

#2. Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.

Toni Morrison

#3. Wells-Barnett's experience with the ways that lynching victims were criminalized, and her progressive belief in the ability of persons to change for the better, gave her another perspective.

Paula J. Giddings

#4. The mission of the Gestapo expanded steadily as from 1933 onward, "political criminality" was given a much broader definition than ever before and more forms of dissent and criticism were gradually criminalized. The result was that more "laws" or law-like measures were put on the books than ever.

Sheila Fitzpatrick

#5. In China the underworld and officialdom have interpenetrated and become one. Criminal elements have become officialized as officials have become criminalized.

Liu Xiaobo

#6. Good journalism is being criminalized or otherwise rendered perilous to its best practitioners. Attack a government agency like the CIA, or a Fortune 500 member ... , or the conduct of the military in Southeast Asia and you find yourself in deep trouble, naked and often alone.

Daniel Schorr

#7. At one point consciousness-altering devices like the microscope and telescope were criminalized for exactly the same reasons that psychedelic plants were banned in later years. They allow us to peer into bits and zones of Chaos.

Timothy Leary

#8. When privacy is criminalized,
only criminals will have privacy.

Daniel Suarez

#9. It should be a crime to abandon your child, and it's not. It would be wonderful if it could be criminalized.

Sinead O'Connor

#10. There is no such thing as a criminal life. Life is life, and life is criminalized. No one ever, in the history of life, has chosen a criminal life. No one has ever said, 'I want to be a criminal.' No one ever has done that.

Rhys Ifans

#11. Cyber disobedients are criminalized because they seek, or succeed, to give away that which capital seeks to own, and sell, for a profit

Jeff Shantz

#12. I think any person who goes to Rikers is criminalized, even just for visiting. I go back every week to see my friends in there. When you go to see a criminal, you are by relation a criminal and subject to be treated like one.

Cecily McMillan

#13. The most important thing in a kitchen isn't how delectable the food is but how happy you are while you're there.

Kyung-ran Jo

#14. You can only be connected to others if you are connected to yourself and the truth inside.

Elie Tahari

#15. To be what no one ever was, to be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those extremes that fence all effort in.

Mark Van Doren

#16. Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.

Aristotle.

#17. I just believe in working. I'm not one of those romantic explainers of my own individual point of view.

Imogen Cunningham

#18. It has been a messy week, and I blame myself as much as anyone else. I feel like a behaviourist who has designed her rat's maze poorly.

Richard K. Morgan