The United States government does not authorise or condone torture of detainees. Torture, and conspiracy to commit torture, are crimes under US… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
Why is thinking about crime or imagining crime so goddamn central to pop culture? It doesn't matter whether it's American TV or… — Elliott Colla Copy Share Image
The victim of mind-manipulati on does not know that he is a victim. To him, the walls of his prison are invisible,… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“After all of your punishments, why do you still think about love? Love was never good to you and never will be.… — Natavia Copy Share Image
I know of no crime that has not been defended by the church, in one form or other. The church is not… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
He who allows himself to be arrested for a crime he did not commit will be expelled from the party, but if… — Aminu Kano Copy Share Image
For the Republican Convention, I think of Trump's speech and sort of the darkness, the fear of crime, the need for a… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
It is hardly fair to accuse us of ignorance when it was made a crime under the former order of things to… — George H. White Copy Share Image
“Statistics show that the nature of English crime is reverting to its oldest habits. In a country where so many desire status… — Christopher Fowler Copy Share Image
“AK 47, is perfect copy, yes? Every detail. Like real thing. Yes. Kalashnikov. Your boy, he be happy for Uncle Sante, no?”… — Steen Langstrup Copy Share Image
As governor, I came to believe that the death penalty would be a just punishment for certain, especially heinous crimes, such as… — Howard Dean Copy Share Image
Robots are emotionless, so they don't get upset if their buddy is killed, they don't commit crimes of rage and revenge. But… — P. W. Singer Copy Share Image
“You were already in a prison. You've been in a prison all your life. Happiness is a prison, Evey. Happiness is the… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
Gang members have invariably grown up in broken, chaotic homes, often experiencing domestic violence; they have truanted from school and many have… — Iain Duncan Smith Copy Share Image
Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime, from the sowing of the… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
“Alright. Well, in all honesty, I don't feel that what I've done is a crime. And I think it's illogical and irresponsible… — George Copy Share Image
It is a man's own dishonesty, his crimes, his wickedness, and boldness, that takes away from him soundness of mind; these are… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“Hostile to the past, impatient of the present, and cheated of the future, we were much like those whom men's justice, or… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
For every dollar spent on early child development you save $7 over the life course because children with better early child development… — Michael Marmot Copy Share Image
Can you ever “solve” poverty? Can you ever “solve” crime? Can you ever “solve” disease, unemployment, war, or any other societal herpes?… — Max Brooks Copy Share Image
It is always possible that occasional individuals may have overstepped the law and humanity in treatment of criminals and those charged with… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
Fighting crime requires a partnership between the police and the community. And we all know that this partnership has been tested in… — Rahm Emanuel Copy Share Image
I certainly didn't emerge from prison regretting anything I ever wrote, nor did I feel remorse for my crime in the least. — Jim Goad Copy Share Image
Doth not a man die even in his birth? The breaking of prison is death, and what is our birth, but a… — John Donne Copy Share Image
Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies. — Emily Bronte Copy Share Image
Each day the worst of our faults, our deficiencies, our crimes, the truth of our lives, is stifled under a triple layer… — Jean Giraudoux Copy Share Image
The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The Mafia and crime bosses of this world are amateurs compared to this syndicate, ruled by the prince of darkness and the… — Adrian Rogers Copy Share Image
I want to separate sin from crime. You may have to ask forgiveness for your sins from God, but not from the… — Pierre Trudeau Copy Share Image
This country would be a better place to live in if all the resources we currently put toward criminalizing marijuana were instead… — Gary Johnson Copy Share Image
Prison makes an interesting context for so many different characters to come together. You get to see what lines get drawn between… — Yael Stone Copy Share Image
“Stomach full of jitters, little beasts that were second cousins to guacamolians—little green monsters that wreaked havoc in your stomach.” — William Kely McClung Copy Share Image
Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that, unsuspected, ripens with the flower of the pleasure that… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Violence is a cleansing force. It frees the native from his inferiority complex and from his despair and inaction; it makes him… — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
Once crime was as solitary as a cry of protest; now it is as universal as science. Yesterday it was put on… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
A man who lives with nature is used to violence and is companionable with death. There is more violence in an English… — P. D. James Copy Share Image
Prison does strange things to men. Although its purpose is to break the free spirit of a man, in many cases it… — William Powell Copy Share Image
“As long as you show that you’re willing to take it further than them, they’ll tend to back off, whoever they may… — Neil Walker Copy Share Image
It's not that war crimes stop as soon as a novel about them is published. Literature operates slowly, it is always inching… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
However evil men may be they dare not be openly hostile to virtue, and so when they want to attack it they… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
