The poor must be wisely visited and liberally cared for, so that mendicity shall not be tempted into mendacity, nor want exasperated… — Robert Charles Winthrop Copy Share Image
In England, if you commit a crime, the police don't have a gun and you don't have a gun. If you commit… — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
If you had enough money, you could hardly commit crimes at all. You just perpetrated amusing little peccadilloes. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The exceptions of the scrupulous put one in mind of some general pardons where everything is forgiven except crimes. — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
“Violence,’ someone had once told Marnie, ‘isn’t what you think it is. It isn’t someone bursting into your home in the middle… — Sarah Hilary Copy Share Image
“Threats from the street may be potentially lethal, but the threat from the "enemy within" is a far worse hazard to a… — Steve Neal Copy Share Image
We are so inculcated with guilt that we think that weakness is a sin or that it is some crime against nature… — Anton Szandor LaVey Copy Share Image
Violence is the tool of the barbarian; aggression is the method of the primitive; bloodshed is the way of the savage; cruelty… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
“Scaffolds, dungeons, jails flourish only in the shadow of a faith—of that need to believe which has infested the mind forever. The… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
The accumulation of personal wealth and the extension of commercial transactions have developed a great and lamentable increase in certain classes of… — Edward Blake Copy Share Image
“Until about 1970 when parents beat their children to death they very often escaped punishment. They would be prosecuted if it was… — Bill James Copy Share Image
Most of the kids that I meet in the street are serious hardened criminals that I meet in the street, never had… — Steven Seagal Copy Share Image
Since fresh examples and proofs could always be found of the alleged relation between guilt and punishment: if you behave in such… — Georg Brandes Copy Share Image
A lot is said, by foreigners and the left, about America being a violent society. Yet if you subtract the crime statistics… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
“Well, I have no time for those who say the gods are capricious and beyond human understanding. For a god to need… — Tsugumi Ohba Copy Share Image
For most of us, fanfiction is a non-issue. Even for midlist writers. We will never be popular enough for people to play… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world. Many of those people deserve to be in prison; however, some… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
Anyone who says, 'Books don't change anything,' or - more commonly - that crime fiction is the wrong genre for promoting social… — Andrew Vachss Copy Share Image
“Instinct told Neil what to do. Training taught him how to do it. Calculated motion. Full awareness of the unman and his… — Steve Rush Copy Share Image
“If a man would commit an inexpiable offence against any society, large or small, let him be successful. They will forgive any… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Ken Lay has, does and will continue to accept responsibility for the fall of Enron. He was the man at the controls.… — Michael Ramsey Copy Share Image
Prison hosts a lot of normal people, a lot of family men who were caught in a tight situation or in a… — Santan Dave Copy Share Image
Crime shows are really popular, in general, but usually, at the end of every episode, you have to let go of the… — Mireille Enos Copy Share Image
All is extremely genteel; and there is almost as much repose as in the golden saloons of the contiguous palaces. At any… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
To the criminals and all their accomplices, I, today, humbly and as a brother, repeat: convert yourselves to love and justice. It… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
If you knowingly and willingly embark on criminal behaviour, the consequences of that should be... that you lose some of your benefits… — Iain Duncan Smith Copy Share Image
A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
If I was president, you wouldn't be sitting in jail for crimes that's not violent; you wouldn't be doing too much time… — YG Copy Share Image
People high in conscientiousness get better grades in high school and college; they commit fewer crimes; and they stay married longer. — Paul Tough Copy Share Image
And for any victim of a violent crime, when you actually get to go in and realize and see their faces and… — Patty Hearst Copy Share Image
“...people called it justice, but prison doesn't make everything better," he observes. "Just because someone pays a price doesn't mean they didn't… — Autumn Doughton Copy Share Image
You have got to make sure there's due process for somebody that's accused of a crime. You've got make sure they're safe. — Rick Scott Copy Share Image
[People] earn extra money [in prison] selling contraband, dope, and things of that sort to the inmates, and so that really it's… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Incarceration has become a business. It is in the interest of the police and the prisons to keep locking people up. — Sam Branson Copy Share Image
“Even sentenced to twenty-five years in prison Ted didn’t get what he deserved. Maybe his prison mates would give it to him.” — Suzie Ivy Copy Share Image
Cruelty, if we consider it as a crime, is the greatest of all; if we consider it as a madness, we are… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
One hundred percent of the time, no plea bargain, no bail, you're going to the penitentiary - - that will change the… — Wayne LaPierre Copy Share Image
The Marcos era was the golden time for the Philippines. We had the lowest crime rate in the world in Manila and… — Imelda Marcos Copy Share Image
“What a place! What a situation! What kind of man would put a known criminal in charge of a major branch of… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
In a crime story, the details become tremendously important - where the staircase was in relation to the bed, for example. — Bill James Copy Share Image