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  • When individuals get crowbars and start prying open doors to loot, they're not protesting. They're not making a statement. They're stealing. When they burn down a building, they're committing arson.

    Doors   Arson   Stealing  
    Remarks by President Obama and Prime Minister Abe of Japan in Joint Press Conference, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. April 28, 2015.
  • People will admit to arson and mayhem sooner than no sense of humor.

    Humor   People   Arson  
    Peg Bracken (1982). “A Window Over the Sink”, Avon Books
  • Arson is a respected profession among certain subcultures in Jersey, and the good ones don't get caught. The good ones channel lightning and mysterious acts of spontaneous combustion.

    Janet Evanovich (2007). “Twelve Sharp”, p.79, Macmillan
  • Arson, property destruction, burglary, and theft are 'acceptable crimes' when used for the animal cause.

    Animal   Arson   Causes  
  • Murtagh was right about women. Sassenach, I risked my life for ye, committing theft, arson, assault, and murder into the bargain. In return for which ye call me names, insult my manhood, kick me in the ballocks and claw my face. Then I beat you half to death and tell ye all the most humiliating things have ever happened to me, and ye say ye love me." He laid his head on his knees and laughed some more. Finally he rose and held out a hand to me, wiping his eyes with the other. "You're no verra sensible, Sassenach, but I like ye fine. Let's go.

    Eye   Hands   Names  
    Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.320, Dell
  • Since 1993, there have been eight or nine, depending how you count, abortion providers who have been murdered in this country. There have been arsons. There have been clinic bombings. There have been attacks offsite. Before this, the most recent abortion provider who was murdered was George Tiller in his church on a Sunday morning. So, this fits a pattern.

  • Arson, after all, is an artificial crime...A large number of houses deserve to be burnt.

    Fire   Numbers   House  
    1909 The History of Mr Polly, ch.10, pt.1.
  • It seems all "protection" has to be monitored, considered, weighed and justified - I am suggesting we do that (but it's something Mary Shelley (and Gertrude Stein) also suggest). "Torch Song," the book's final section, looks at an arson committed by someone hired to protect the wilderness from fires, a catastrophic failure of protection!

    Song   Book   Fire  
    Source: therumpus.net
  • Why do you have a cigarette lighter in your glove compartment?" her husband, Jack, asked her. "I'm bored with knitting. I've taken up arson

    Audrey Niffenegger (2009). “Her Fearful Symmetry: A Novel”, p.5, Simon and Schuster
  • Today, we will hear from federal law enforcement agencies, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, who will discuss the problem of ELF and ALF and law enforcement's reaction to their dangerous and destructive tactics. It is these tactics, particularly the widespread use of arson, which makes ELF and ALF the #1 domestic terror concern over the likes of white supremacists, militias, and anti-abortion groups.

    Law   White   Agency  
    Senate Hearing 109-947 before Committee on Environment and Public Works, May 18, 2005.
  • Men will confess to treason, murder, arson, false teeth, or a wig. How many of them will own up to a lack of humor?

    Frank Moore Colby (1926). “The pursuit of humor and other essays”
  • My objection to the church isn't that the preachers are cruel, hypocritical, actually wicked, though some of them are that, too - think of how many are arrested for selling fake stock, for seducing 14-year-old girls in orphanages under their care, for arson, for murder. An it isn't so much that the church is in bondage to Big Business and doctrines as laid down by millionaires - though a lot of churches are that, too. My chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.

    Girl   Teaching   School  
  • Who keeps the tavern and serves up the drinks? The peasant. Who squanders and drinks up money belonging to the peasant commune, the school, the church? The peasant. Who would steal from his neighbor, commit arson, and falsely denounce another for a bottle of vodka? The peasant.

    "Peasants". Book by Anton Chekhov, 1897.
  • Murder, arson, adultery, drugging and drinking, cruel politics--reading a book crammed with such activities can make the timid and yearning among us feel like the happiest people in the world.

    Drinking   Book   Reading  
  • I'm bored with knitting. I've taken up arson.

    Taken   Knitting   Bored  
    Audrey Niffenegger (2009). “Her Fearful Symmetry: A Novel”, p.5, Simon and Schuster
  • If rape or arson, poison or the knife Has wove no pleasing patterns in the stuff Of this drab canvas we accept as life - It is because we are not bold enough!

    Knives   Poison   Arson  
    Charles Baudelaire (1955). “Flowers of Evil: A Selection”, p.5, New Directions Publishing
  • I would no more teach children military training than teach them arson, robbery, or assassination.

  • The serial arsonist is the most difficult to apprehend because the evidence is burned up.

  • Arson is the single most fundamental form of terrorism.It`s the simplest terrorist tactic.

    Source: www.msnbc.com
  • Anarchism does not mean bloodshed; it does not mean robbery, arson, etc. These monstrosities are, on the contrary, the characteristic features of capitalism. Anarchism means peace and tranquility to all.

    Mean   Doe   Arson  
  • Game, set, match equals tennis. Set, match, run equals arson.

    Running   Games   Tennis  
  • What's taken God 200 years to create was wiped out in a couple of days by what was apparently an arsonist, And it just shows you what a sick world we live in nowadays.

  • Congressman [Richard ] Icord headed a House on American activities committee. It was called the House Internal Security Committee. And he put out a report, and he named a number of very destructive people who lectured at colleges and left arson in their wake and did other terrible things. And he mentioned me and he ascribed to me three organizations to which I'd never belonged, and I decided I would do something about this.

    Source: thedailyhatch.org
  • Throughout the late '80s, me and a handful of friends just like you people here, we started to break windows, we started to slash tires, we started to rescue animals from factory farms and vivisection breeders, and we graduated to breaking into laboratories . As long as we emptied the labs of animals, they were still easily replaced. So that's when the ALF in this country, and my cell, started engaging in arson.

    Country   Animal   Cells  
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