Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Writing detective stories is about writing light literature, for entertainment. It isn't primarily a question of writing propaganda or classical literature. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The greatest crime is not developing your potential. When you do what you do best, you are helping not only yourself, but… — Roger Williams Copy Share Image
Was I a criminal? No. I was a good member of society. Only my society and the one making the laws are… — Owsley Stanley Copy Share Image
It is not only vain, but wicked, in a legislator to frame laws in opposition to the laws of nature, and to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“The punishment approach and bad consequences approach to treatment is the kind of thinking that is prevalent in every residential substance abuse… — Chris Prentiss Copy Share Image
“FREEDOM IS RESPOSEBILTY When freedom TURNED to barbarism,A prison Become Wise haven عندما تتحول الحرية الي همجية تصبح السجون ملاذ العقلاء” — Engsaad Copy Share Image
A jury of my countrymen, it is true, have found me guilty of the crime of which I stood indicted. For this… — Thomas Francis Meagher Copy Share Image
Self-reinvention is an essential trope of the American project, closely linked to another such trope: going on the lam. Both are regularly… — Luc Sante Copy Share Image
Society may protect itself without putting a human to death as it would a wild animal. Since we believe each person has… — Richard Viguerie Copy Share Image
Deep thinkers who look everywhere for the mysterious causes of poverty, ignorance, crime and war need look no further than their own… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
As a teacher of fourth-graders in a public school, where corporal punishement was not allowed, she had years of violence stored up… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
When you look at where the real problems are among minorities in our society, particularly blacks, it's at the bottom. It's the… — Clarence Thomas Copy Share Image
The most popular American fiction seems to be about successful people who win, and good crime fiction typically does not explore that… — George Pelecanos Copy Share Image
By a beautiful paradox of Divine love, God makes His Cross the very means of our salvation and our life. We have… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
I assert most unhesitatingly, that the religion of the South is a mere covering for the most horrid crimes—a justifier of the… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Misbehavior and punishment are not opposites that cancel each other - on the contrary they breed and reinforce each other. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I believe I could commit a crime. We all can. It depends on which situations we find ourselves in. In despair, I… — Karin Fossum Copy Share Image
“He who has never tasted jail Lives well within the legal pale, While he who's served a heavy sentence Renews the racket,… — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
White-on-white crime is a devastation in America like so-called black-on-black crime. It's not black or white-on-white crime. It's proximity murder. — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
“Fear is no crime. But acting from fear is. Know that you're going to lose everything one day, whether you fear to… — Adam Burch Copy Share Image
A lot of novels use crime as a stepping stone to talk about greater issues. So I just think of myself as… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
“At the end of the day, we are with ourselves — and this can either be the most beautiful thing or the… — Laura Chouette Copy Share Image
“The threat is over, erased with violence and tiny porcelain hands so used to abuse they can stand innocent no longer.” — C.M. Stunich Copy Share Image
Humour is like violence. They both come to you unexpectedly, and the more unpredictable they both are, the better it gets. — Takeshi Kitano Copy Share Image
“Sin, sin! To rid myself of boredom by committing a crime, to break up monotony by deceiving. To sin in order to… — Henri Barbusse Copy Share Image
We need to understand the difference between discipline and punishment. Punishment is what you do to someone; discipline is what you do… — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
To ... not prepare is the greatest of crimes; to be prepared beforehand for any contingency is the greatest of virtues. — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
My influence is probably more from American crime writers than any Europeans. And I hardly read any Scandinavian crime before I started… — Jo Nesbo Copy Share Image
I am upset and completely disappointed in the government, the millionaires and billionaires in the U.S. See what's happening to the country?… — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Copy Share Image
To go to prison because of your convictions and be prepared to suffer for what you believe in, is something worthwhile. It… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
“I should fancy that crime was to them what art is to us, simply a method of procuring extraordinary sensations.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
We who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Crime fiction makes money. It may be harder for writers to get published, but crime is doing better than most of what… — Linwood Barclay Copy Share Image
By swallowing the false narrative of systemic racism, we have demonized and criminalized police while turning criminals into civil-rights martyrs. — Miranda Devine Copy Share Image
I come from New York originally, but Californians have been wonderful about animals. These animals are so nice and so good and… — Dick Van Patten Copy Share Image
“We say that the dangerous criminal is the educated criminal. We say that the most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
War criminals in the U.S. and Israel are not punished: no international court has the courage to put them on trial. — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
Money laundering is not a crime. It's just because certain men with guns don't like what other people are doing with their… — Roger Ver Copy Share Image
Why did the regime put me in prison in the first place? I was put in prison for six years and it… — Akbar Ganji Copy Share Image
