I think I'm part of a generation of crime writers all of whom woke up independently and recoiled with horror at the… — Laura Lippman Copy Share Image
Perjury is the basest and meanest and most cowardly of crimes. What can it do? Perjury can change the common air that… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
On the murder of New York deli owner Abe Lebewohl: It's almost like wiping out Carnegie Hall. A sandwich to a Jew… — Jackie Mason Copy Share Image
“Is it a crime to be strong?' That's something you might have asked. And I would have answered by asking the opposite… — Naoyuki Ochiai Copy Share Image
I see no kind of reason to not just try everything. I mean, I feel like we all have such varied tastes,… — Dev Hynes Copy Share Image
There is no city in the country with nil incidence of crime. We have to look into the crime rate in proportion… — J. Jayalalithaa Copy Share Image
I want to look my fellow Americans directly in the eye and declare to them, 'I am not the anthrax killer.' I… — Steven Hatfill Copy Share Image
Sanitised violence in movies has been accepted for years. What seems to upset everybody now is the showing of the consequences of… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
The criminal law needs to be improved to meet new forms of crime, but to denounce financial devices which are useful and… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
The Society is based on that great bottom law of human right, that nothing but crime can forfeit liberty. That no condition… — Theodore Dwight Weld Copy Share Image
Violence can be very grotesque and also intensely attractive. What interests me is how the two - beauty and violence - live… — Ori Gersht Copy Share Image
If we deny our awesome challenge; turn our backs on the living universe, and forsake our cosmic destiny, we will commit a… — Marshall Savage Copy Share Image
“the regression fallacy. The regression fallacy refers to the tendency to fail to recognize statistical regression when it occurs, and instead to… — Thomas Gilovich Copy Share Image
Israel is in the midst of a difficult military and diplomatic campaign against terrorists. An organisation that works to prove allegations that… — Uri Orbach Copy Share Image
She reached inside the wide ruffle and pulled out a little vial. “Poison?” asked Lady Maccon, tilting her head to one side.… — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image
“was predetermined in the counsel of God; and yet it was, nonetheless, an atrocious crime on the part of ungodly men! The… — Charles Haddon Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Apparently, an undocumented side effect of dope is a gross overestimation of one's own intelligence. Dopers become convinced they've hidden their stash… — Alafair Burke Copy Share Image
Michael Koryta is an amazingly talented writer, and I rank The Prophet as one of the sharpest and superbly plotted crime novels… — Donald Ray Pollock Copy Share Image
My job is to investigate whether or not a crime is committed, can be proved and should be charged. I'm not going… — Patrick Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The guns on the walls that surround the prison accurately, though unwittingly, index the true character of the penitentiary in our day. — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
“How men fear the chaos of the world, I thought, and the yawning eternity hereafter. So we build patterns to explain its… — C.J. Sansom Copy Share Image
What was always interesting about Thomas Harris' books is they were a wonderful hybridization of a crime thriller and a horror movie. — Bryan Fuller Copy Share Image
You have to be patient. Litigants are emotionally involved - they're suing or being sued, or they've been in an accident or… — Steven Pacey Copy Share Image
Most criminals are not born; they are made… What the State really punishes in a criminal is often its own neglect, its… — William Randolph Hearst Copy Share Image
The most important element of a free society, where individual rights are held in the highest esteem, is the rejection of the… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
That we could live in a country with no rules for the rich, no rights for the poor, and no middle class… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
Any movement at all that reduces disease, that reduces overdoses, that reduces property crime, that reduces violent crime, is good. — Gary Johnson Copy Share Image
Liquor prohibition led to the rise of organized crime in America, and drug prohibition has led to the rise of the gang… — Drew Carey Copy Share Image
The estimated loss of up to six million dead is founded too much on both emotional, biased testimonies and on exaggerated data… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Refraining from harm, not out of fear, but out of concern for others, their well-being and out of respect is non-violence. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Victims of domestic violence need assistance and deserve justice, I commend the crime unit's efforts to put offenders behind bars and reach… — Bob Riley Copy Share Image
“The State is not the hope of the world; it is an institution grounded in the threat of violence, whether via capital… — Douglas Wilson Copy Share Image
A far greater factor than abolishing poverty is the deterrent effect of swift and certain consequences: swift arrest, prompt trial, certain penalty… — Warren E. Burger Copy Share Image
Growing up with a father who was a judge, I heard a lot about justice. But for justice to be applied, punishments… — Ralph Northam Copy Share Image
Poor people, people of color - especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education. — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
I advocate revolutionary changes...an end to capitalist exploitation, the abolition of racist policies, the eradication of sexism and the elimination of political… — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
People are interested in crime fiction when they're quite distanced from crime. People in Darfur are not reading murder mysteries. — Denise Mina Copy Share Image
Crime like virtue has its degrees; and timid innocence was never known to blossom suddenly into extreme license. — Jean Racine Copy Share Image
Our criminal justice system is failing all of us. It is not keeping us safe. It is contributing to a vicious cycle… — Chesa Boudin Copy Share Image
When politics enter into municipal government, nothing resulting therefrom in the way of crimes and infamies is then incredible. It actually enables… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
