Money comes to Switzerland through three illegal sources: tax evasion in other developed countries, the blood money of dictators and other rulers… — Jean Ziegler Copy Share Image
It isn't the desire to abide by the law that makes everyone behave as society requires, but the fear of punishment. Each… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Prisons! Prisons! Prisons, dungeons, blessed places where evil is impossible since they are the crossroads of all the malediction in the world.… — Jean Genet Copy Share Image
Regular, everyday working people in my state recognize that communities are going to have crime. They know that. The question is what… — Andrew Gillum Copy Share Image
A doctor could make a million dollars if he could figure out a way to bring a boy into the world without… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
Homosexuality in Russia is a crime and the punishment is seven years in prison, locked up with the other men. There is… — Yakov Smirnoff Copy Share Image
He is next to the gods whom reason, and not passion, impels; and who, after weighing the facts, can measure the punishment… — Claudius Claudianus Copy Share Image
I have done many impious things--no great ruler can do otherwise. I have put the good of the Empire before all human… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
The book that convinced me I wanted to be a writer was 'Crime and Punishment'. I put the thing down after reading… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
We're talking about a prison-industrial complex. We're talking about a war on drugs that's generating unprecedented levels of incarcerated folk. We're talking… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Nelson Mandela went to jail believing in violence, and 27 years later he and his colleagues had slowly and carefully honed the… — Scilla Elworthy Copy Share Image
I have another name for what they're terming whistleblowers, and that's righteous heroes. From Bradley Manning to Snowden. They're people of conscience… — Tom Morello Copy Share Image
Why do children want to grow up? Because they experience their lives as constrained by immaturity and perceive adulthood as a condition… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
There are the fundamental core values of the Democratic Party, which is to work to grow the economy, to create jobs, to… — Nancy Pelosi Copy Share Image
Today, the West is confronted by the powers that seek to test our will, undermine our confidence, and challenge our interests. To… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. It is impractical because it is a descending spiral… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Let's end the unworkable marijuana prohibition and put our money where our mouth is. Let's solve the problems like border crime. We… — Gary Johnson Copy Share Image
“What crime have I committed? Am I a thief or a murderer, to have to degrade myself like this? In this country… — Bandi Copy Share Image
I deplore the horrible crime of child-murder...We want prevention, not merely punishment. We must reach the root of the evil, and destroy… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
“All his life Bosch had lived and worked in society’s institutions. But he hope he had escaped institutional thinking, that he made… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
You have stripped from me the rank and privileges of the professorship and the doctoral degree which I earned, and you have… — Kurt Huber Copy Share Image
Child slavery is a crime against humanity. Humanity itself is at stake here. A lot of work still remains, but I will… — Kailash Satyarthi Copy Share Image
We don't know what proportion of public funds is regularly lost to collusion and corruption. Is it 25 per cent? 30 per… — Pauline Marois Copy Share Image
There is trouble in my mind There is dark, there's dark and there is light There is no order, and there is… — Jakob Dylan Copy Share Image
Obviously murder and graffiti are two vastly different crimes. But they are part of the same continuum, and a climate that tolerates… — Rudy Giuliani Copy Share Image
“What but a pestilential vapour can hover over society when its chief director is only instructed in the invention of crimes, or… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
If we forgive God for his crime against us, which is to have made us finite creatures, He will forgive our crime… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Individuals have international duties which transcend the national obligations of obedience. Therefore individual citizens have the duty to violate domestic laws to… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
“Any place you don’t want to stay becomes your prison! That’s why there are many prisoners all around the world who look… — Mehmet Murat ildan 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
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
“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
