I think among the population at large, people are openly fascinated with crime and don't feel any shame over it. It's only… — Bill James Copy Share Image
Violence against women and children resembles an epidemic. It has spread through society, sparing no social group or class. — Cyril Ramaphosa Copy Share Image
“Violence does not necessarily take people by the throat and strangle them. Usually it demands no more than an ultimate allegiance from… — Alexander Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
The pace of Swedish crime fiction is slower - Stieg Larsson's the exception. And I think we use the environment more. — Camilla Lackberg Copy Share Image
“Some people hide behind rules and regulations to deliver sadistic punishments, as if they don’t secretly delight in causing pain and abusing… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
The fear of burglars is not only the fear of being robbed, but also the fear of a sudden and unexpected clutch… — Elias Canetti Copy Share Image
Sedition involves sloganeering with incitement. It may be anti-national, but not a crime, unless you incite violence or communal tension. — Kapil Sibal Copy Share Image
“I can't say." Miranda mimicked a very grown-up sound with her imperious tone. "I wasn't at the morgue. I was in school.” — Theasa Tuohy Copy Share Image
“This is the pattern of gun killings in big cities. Most homicides are not professional jobs, in felonious pursuits, but are committed… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
Prohibition is an awful flop. We like it. It can't stop what it's meant to stop. We like it. It's left a… — Franklin P. Adams Copy Share Image
Once or twice in my career I feel that I have done more real harm by my discovery of the criminal than… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Some people think the Federal Reserve Banks are US government institutions. They are not... they are private credit monopolies which prey upon… — Louis Thomas McFadden Copy Share Image
A recent report by UNEP and Interpol estimated that between 50 to 90 per cent of logging in key tropical countries of… — Achim Steiner Copy Share Image
No doubt hard work is a great police agent. If everybody were worked from morning till night, and then carefully locked up,… — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
“If you’re not a criminal, then what are you doing stealing all these swords and things?” For a moment he was silent.… — Laura Kinsale Copy Share Image
“The apparatus of corrective penality acts in a quite different way. The point of application of the penality is not the representation,… — Michel Foucalut Copy Share Image
One thing, however, I know with certainty: violence, or the direct threat of violence, of the kind we have seen in the… — Timothy Garton Ash Copy Share Image
People charged with drug offenses, though, are typically poor people of color. They are routinely charged with felonies and sent to prison. — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
We refuse to lie here in dishonor! We are not criminals, but Irishmen! This is the crime of which we stand accused. — Bobby Sands Copy Share Image
By creating false environment of a war on drugs, and cruel and unusual punishment with these crimes, 50% of our U.S. population… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
As soon as a woman is old enough to have an opinion and have a voice and be unafraid, she's very much… — Sarah Silverman Copy Share Image
When a felon s not engaged in his employment, Or maturing his felonious little plans, His capacity for innocent enjoyment Is just… — W. S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
The ego is exploitation; love is service. And the service that flows from love, freely and spontaneously, is non-violence. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I am fascinated with criminal law because it is as rigorous as a poem and because it is based on what has… — Lucie Brock-Broido Copy Share Image
Am I a criminal? The world knows I'm not a criminal. What are they trying to put me in jail for? You've… — Jack Kevorkian Copy Share Image
So much of crime these days--then why to mix news with crime--lets have a full time Crime channel--and rid the main stream… — Rajendra Kumar Copy Share Image
You're damn right when you say I've shown people how to make a firebomb, I've done my time for my crimes, and… — Rod Coronado Copy Share Image
“The only thing my father does that isn’t illegal is breathe. He’s a criminal through and through.” -Devina (Being Bad, p. 305)” — Leigh Osmond Copy Share Image
There's a romance to danger. There's a romance to drinking, to drugs, to petty crime and to heartbreak and loneliness. All of… — Joey Comeau Copy Share Image
“Diversion programs often give people who have been charged with nonviolent crimes a chance to avoid conviction if they comply with conditions… — Steven Briggs Copy Share Image
In a well governed state, there are few punishments, not because there are many pardons, but because criminals are rare; it is… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Our system of mass incarceration is better understood as a system of racial and social control than a system of crime prevention… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
For a while, the genre seemed to be just about sex and crime. Rappers are storytellers; the stories don't need to be… — Lauryn Hill Copy Share Image
The crime and violence in the black community is a prime example of the damaging effect of broken families and single female-headed… — Jesse Lee Peterson Copy Share Image
All emphasis in American prisons is on punishment, retribution, and disparagement, and almost none is on rehabilitation. — Conrad Black Copy Share Image
We will pursue them until they lose their nerves... Now that they have indulged in their evil and crimes, they will suffer… — Saddam Hussein Copy Share Image
The use of violence in movies is a subject that's worth addressing. I'm not standing on a soapbox or wagging a finger,… — Naomi Watts Copy Share Image
“It’s so dreadfully easy...killing people… And you begin to feel that it doesn’t matter…That it’s only you that matters! It’s dangerous...that.” — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
I was prosecutor for 18 years. I was threatened by drug dealers, murders, and organized crime. This was a walk in the park. — Tom Marino Copy Share Image
We live in an age which is so possessed by demons, that soon we shall only be able to do goodness and… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
