Unfortunately, I've seen violence, and I think, in films, it is the dramatic extremity of it. — John Hillcoat Copy Share Image
With 'Pretty Girls,' I saw the opportunity to talk not just about crime but what crime leaves behind. — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
Crimes lead one into another; they who are capable of being forgers are capable of being incendiaries. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Life isn't black and white, so don't hate the criminal, hate the crime. — Aly Johnson Copy Share Image
Those who are themselves incapable of great crimes are ever backward to suspect others. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The average household might prepare for root canal, traffic accident, unemployment or illness, but how the household will meet, manage and even… — John Longenecker Copy Share Image
My dear young lady, crime, like death, is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“In a petty theft you steal money, gold etc.; in an electoral theft you steal the future of a country! The second… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
To kill someone for committing murder is a punishment incomparably worse than the crime itself. Murder by legal sentence is immeasurably more… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
No prison can hold me; no hand or leg irons or steel locks can shackle me. No ropes or chains can keep… — Harry Houdini Copy Share Image
What is our policy? ... to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark, lamentable catalogue of human crime. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“For something to be a crime there must be both an actus reus and mens rea — that is, a criminal act… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
Our people went out every single night trying to stop crime before it happened, trying to take people off the street that… — Daryl Gates Copy Share Image
“Take a trip in my mind see all that I've seen, and you'd be called a beast, not a human being... Fuck… — Edward Humes Copy Share Image
It is a horrible idea that there is somebody who owns us, who makes us, who supervises us - waking and sleeping… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Patriotism, or the peculiar relation of an individual to his country, is like the family instinct. In the child it is a… — George William Curtis Copy Share Image
The fact of the matter is that, since we are determined always to keep our feelings to ourselves, we have never given… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
As by the fires of experience, so by commission of crime you learn real morals. Commit all crimes, familiarize yourself with all… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“In Connecticut the crime of oral sex could be punishable by a thirty-year jail term. In Ohio it was one to twenty… — Gay Talese Copy Share Image
R.G. Belsky's thought-provoking thriller, The Kennedy Connection, introduces us to a smart, witty, and human hero whose quest to find answers about… — Jan Burke Copy Share Image
Presumptions of guilt or innocence may sometimes be strengthened or weakened by the place of birth and kind of education and associates… — Levi Woodbury Copy Share Image
Society secretly delights in crime, excesses, and violated prohibitions of all sorts. — Bernard Tschumi Copy Share Image
Crooks aren't the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world. — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
“Security is a double-edged sword: While a fence sure protects the fenced; it also imprisons the protected.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Violence is always the last option, but if that time comes, it is the only option. — 2nd Baronet Sir John Gilmour Copy Share Image
The truth of the matter is that muggers are very interesting people. — Michael Winner Copy Share Image
I guess living without love, without experiencing it or being able to give it is pretty strong punishment. — Keanu Reeves Copy Share Image
Adversities such as being homeless and going to prison has made many people stronger. — Philip Emeagwali Copy Share Image
Hitler admired Stalin, quite properly seeing himself as a mere infant in crime compared to his great exemplar. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
There's a simple way to solve the crime problem: obey the law; punish those who do not. — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Who with a little cannot be content, endures an everlasting punishment. — Robert Herrick Copy Share Image
“Must crimes be punish'd but by other crimes, and greater criminals?” — George Gordon Byron Copy Share Image
The crime of suicide lies rather in its disregard for the feelings of those whom we leave behind. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Prison walls are meant not only to keep convicts in, but to keep the would-be investigator out. — Jessica Mitford Copy Share Image
