Addiction should never be treated as a crime. It has to be treated as a health problem. We do not send alcoholics… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
I went to live with my grandparents when my parents threw me out. Then I went to prison at the age of… — Bez Copy Share Image
I therefore believe that our system does not have a word for failed trial, and that is where the American public does… — Sam Sheppard Copy Share Image
Faults of the head are punished in this world, those of the heart in another; but as most of our vices are… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse… — Plato Copy Share Image
“The wheel turns for all, caro Chase. It’s the karma effect,” Giulia cried, aping Ilenia. She could have never imagined that her… — Stefania Mattana Copy Share Image
When you print out your manuscript and read it, marking up with a pen, it sometimes feels like a criminal returning to… — Don Roff Copy Share Image
“But he had been the victim of the world’s most common crime—his youth had been kidnapped by a thing called time. It… — Aurelio Voltaire Copy Share Image
A state is absolute in the sense which I have in mind when it claims the right to a monopoly of all… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
“When John-Joseph Heller's fights became too much of a sure thing, story has it he moved on to more risky fights with… — S.C. Barrus Copy Share Image
“Early in life, stalkers learned how to hate, but unlike common criminals, they learned self-restraint also. They held their hatred in check.… — Michael Prescott Copy Share Image
I am interested in the creativity of the criminal attitude because I recognize in it the existence of a special condition of… — Joseph Beuys Copy Share Image
We have reached a point where the value we do add to our economy is now being outweighed by the value we… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
We live in a world in which we are able to communicate very quickly in many different ways, and yet we find… — Tom Cruise Copy Share Image
It can be argued that rapists deserve to be raped, that mutilators deserve to be mutilated. Most societies, however, refrain from responding… — Stephen Bright Copy Share Image
Imposition of the death penalty is arbitrary and capricious. Decision of who will live and who will die for his crime turns… — Gerald Heaney Copy Share Image
. . . the sin of abortion, or the destruction of unborn children - lies somewhere a close kin to the crime… — Harold B. Lee Copy Share Image
In brief, when a man fails as a wallet, we put him in prison; when a woman fails as a mother, we… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
There was a war crimes trial because an American prisoner had been shot trying to escape. He had obviously been recaptured and… — Charles Guggenheim Copy Share Image
Helplessness is the new danger the olds are facing, violence is the new conduct in which the adults are behaving and lust… — 5h45hvut Copy Share Image
There seems to be a strong possibility that international humanitarian law has been violated, in a manner that could amount to war… — Navi Pillay Copy Share Image
I strongly believe that for serious and violent criminals, we must absolutely hold them accountable for their crimes and send them to… — Kamala Harris Copy Share Image
“I find it disturbing that one anthropologist's readings of transcripts are being listened to more seriously than 40 senior health service clinicians.… — Valerie Sinason Copy Share Image
I was most happy when pen and paper were taken from me and I was forbidden from doing anything. I had no… — Daniil Kharms Copy Share Image
“people do not emphasize with victims and give them limitless sympathy, but can very quickly switch to aggression and rejection” — Natascha Kampusch Copy Share Image
“Eating is self punishment; punish the food instead. Strangle a loaf of Italian bread. Throw darts at a cheesecake. Chain a lamb… — Denise Dietz Copy Share Image
I don't do jokes about elections so that's probably why it went okay for me, except for the crazy people that are… — Jen Kirkman Copy Share Image
The most effective means of fighting crime in the United States is to outlaw the possession of any type of firearm by… — Janet Reno Copy Share Image
Fanaticism displays itself in the masses; but the masses were rarely fanaticised; and the crimes ascribed to it were commonly due to… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
Laws are rules established by men who are in control of organized violence for the non fulfillment of which those who do… — Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Governments will ultimately have little choice but to treat populations in territories they serve more like customers, and less in the easy… — James Dale Davidson Copy Share Image
Me I never had the chance to say,Well,I'm going to do something I want to do."I always did if for my family,for… — Thomas Gambino Copy Share Image
There is a legitimate argument over whether the death penalty effectively deters violent crime, although my personal observation is that not one… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
So, Americans, then. Self-appointed vigilante defenders of the world, kind of like Superman, if Superman was retarded and only fought crime when… — Yahtzee Croshaw Copy Share Image
“Violence was just another function of the body, no less unusual than sweating or vomiting. It sat on the same shelf as… — Ottessa Moshfegh Copy Share Image
I'm not supposed to say it, but I was not guilty of any crime. I became a target because I was a… — Martha Stewart Copy Share Image
My earnest hope is that what we started in terms of building partnerships with communities across America will continue, that we will… — Janet Reno Copy Share Image
“Every human life has many aspects. The past of each one of us can be just as easily arranged into the biography… — Milan Kundera Laughable Loves Copy Share Image
There are two phone calls parents don't ever want to get from their children. No. 1 is, 'I'm in prison. Come fetch… — Adriana Trigiani Copy Share Image
“The working of the mind discover oft Dark deeds in darkness schemed, before the act. More hateful still the miscreant who seeks… — Sophocles Copy Share Image