I have come to think of violence as a self-perpetuating mania of the power of the aggressive over those less strong. — Kathy Reichs Copy Share Image
Violence and wrong enclose all who commit them in their meshes and do mostly recoil on him from whom they begin. — Lucretius Copy Share Image
“Practically every fella that breaks the law has a danged good reason, to his own way of thinking, which makes every case… — Jim Thompson Copy Share Image
The violence in the schools of today will inevitably graduate to the streets, offices, cities, and borders of tomorrow. — Shervin Pishevar Copy Share Image
My head's never really quiet. The only time I can get it to turn off is if I watch 'CSI' or 'Law… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
People who commit monstrous crimes are not necessarily monsters. If they were, things would be easy. But they aren't and it is… — Bernhard Schlink Copy Share Image
There is no reason to live in fear of crime and violence. There is however reason to take reasonable precautions. And in… — Marc MacYoung Copy Share Image
It's a welcome development that the president is paying attention to the war crimes that are being committed by the Assad regime… — Kori Schake Copy Share Image
“When men in power decide that things need to be rebalanced at any cost, the violence is never brief and never really… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I am confident that those who believe in belief are wrong. That is, we no more need to preserve the myth of… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
Violence only perpetrates more violence, and it becomes a vicious cycle. There are political situations all over the world where there are… — Mandy Patinkin Copy Share Image
“They are not judgments, punishments, or betrayals. They are a purely peaceable thing: the basic principles you identify for yourself that define… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
I've seen villages in South America with no police whatever. Then the cops would arrive, then the sanitary inspectors, and before you… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Obviously these [white-guard] emigres enjoy the right of asylum existing also in the U.S. So far as we are concerned we would… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
I like doing whatever interests me. It's a challenge for me to try to make good comics out of any genre I… — Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero Copy Share Image
Puzzlement and doubt are, however, already crimes in the totalitarian state. The mind that is open for questions is open for dissent.… — Joost Meerloo Copy Share Image
Whatever the police or politicians may tell us, this is a violent and threatening place. Living here is dangerous. — Peter Bruce Copy Share Image
Really, what we want now, is not laws against crime, but a law against insanity. That is where the true evil lies. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Walking out of a store after not buying anything and thinking, 'Try not to act like a criminal, try not to act… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is essential that we aggressively pursue all criminal offenders, especially those who commit these heinous crimes against women - and seek… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
If you prosecute a CEO or other senior executive and send him or her to jail for committing a crime, the deterrent… — Jed S. Rakoff Copy Share Image
“I’m just an apprentice, stuck between these borrowed first and last breaths that I was given, drinking water of life, and chasing… — B. Barmanbek Copy Share Image
“She was afraid of not being able to pull herself out of the dream world, never waking up, never knowing what really… — B. Barmanbek Copy Share Image
All my businesses are scrupulously legal. Not because I have any moral problems with crime. It just makes my life easier to… — Josh Lieb Copy Share Image
People often get caught in situations or do something that they regret for the rest of their lives. What happens and how… — Sriram Raghavan Copy Share Image
With five to ten hundred pure-minded young women threading the streets of the village every evening unattended, vice must slink away, like… — Anna Julia Cooper Copy Share Image
They don't have a lot of crime in the countryside other than theft. But every once in a while, things turn ugly,… — John Sandford Copy Share Image
A number of years ago, I found a book of photography by Weegee; he was a crime photographer in the 1930s in… — Dan Gilroy Copy Share Image
I think if we wish to live in any kind of a moral universe, we must hold the perpetrators of violence responsible… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I worked out an anarchistic theory that all government is evil, that the punishment always does more harm than the crime and… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Those in blue suits who use thinly veiled race symbols -- when they say welfare and crime and three strikes and anti-… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
“Almost none of us know how to escape the trap of self-punishment. It has sinisterly woven itself into the fibers of American… — Stefani Ruper Copy Share Image
When the enterprising burglar isn't burgling; When the cut-throat isn't occupied in crime; He loves to hear the little brook a-gurgling; And… — W. S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
We know that when law abiding citizens who know how to utilize a firearm have one on their person, it helps prevent… — Paul Broun Copy Share Image
“The hinterlands . Where the criminals and the carnivals and the concatenating counterfeiters of no morals to speak of make a home.” — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year and spends very little on office supplies. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Nothing that isn't a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Laws exist in every state that make animal cruelty a crime. Horse slaughter is simply another form of animal abuse. — Bo Derek Copy Share Image
“He did his best to explain this to Inspector Sloan afterwards. 'A funny feeling, sir.' 'Yes?' Funny feelings were not encouraged at… — Catherine Aird Copy Share Image
I think the British government's cutting back of arts funding is such a crime. I bet it will happen in Denmark soon,… — Henrik Vibskov Copy Share Image