When you grow suspicious of a person and begin a system of espionage upon him, your punishment will be that you will… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
Anyone, any type of story, it doesnt have to be a crime victim, you dont have to let yourself be food for… — Bernhard Goetz Copy Share Image
If a cop sees a person running out of a store with a gun he's seeing a crime. He's not seeing a… — Al Sharpton Copy Share Image
“Because of the matrix of rampant horrors often described as overcriminalization, it is no longer possible for you to rely on your… — James Duane Copy Share Image
When you're young, you get blamed for crimes that you didn't commit. When you are old, you get credit for virtues that… — I. F. Stone Copy Share Image
Intemperance is naturally punished with diseases; rashness, with mischance; injustice; with violence of enemies; pride, with ruin; cowardice, with oppression; and rebellion,… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
There's nothing worse than a violent beating from an unremarkable person. Physical violence with someone is too much like shagging them. Too… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
Criminals together. We're in hell, my little friend, and there's never any mistake there. People are not damned for nothing. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“Everybody talks about foul dens and filthy slums in which crime can run riot; but it's just the other way. They are… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
As president, I will instruct the Department of Justice to create a joint task force throughout the United States to work together… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Would you have a strong and virile nation, keep your homes pure; would you reduce delinquency and crime, lessen the number of… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
I believe in keeping guns out of our inner cities, and that our leaders must say so in the face of the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“So many of my sisters are so completely unaware of who the real criminals and dogs are. They blame themselves for being… — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
Once we accept violence as an adaptation, it makes sense that its expression is calibrated to the environment. The same individual will… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
“No one mentioned the sad piece of tinsel, naked in places, hanging across the chimneybreast, nor that Twelfth Night was a week… — Andrew Barrett Copy Share Image
So here I pray for another life in another time where everything is fine theres no such thing as crime where you… — Brianna Beasley Copy Share Image
There's an obsession, within our culture, with the genteel thief. Somebody who commits a crime, but does it in a classy way. — Geoffrey Gray Copy Share Image
The crime part is the engine that moves the narrative and allows me to write the other things I want to write… — George Pelecanos Copy Share Image
Childhood is the one prison from which there's no escape, the one sentence from which there's no appeal. We all serve our… — P. D. James Copy Share Image
Trump's creating laws for crimes that don't exist. In Canada, we have Prime Minister Trudeau in the gay Pride parade waving a… — Eric Walters Copy Share Image
If you ever meet someone who cannot understand why solitary confinement is considered punishment, you have met a misanthrope. — Florence King Copy Share Image
First of all, do any of you here think it's a crime to help a suffering human end his agony? Any of… — Jack Kevorkian Copy Share Image
The criminal type is the type of the strong human being under unfavorable circumstances: a strong human being made sick. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Discipline of others isn't punishment. You discipline to help, to improve, to correct, to prevent, not to punish, humiliate, or retaliate. — John Wooden Copy Share Image
I think that when we're talking about youth violence, we're talking about kids who don't have opportunities, so they're engaged in a… — Matt Gonzalez Copy Share Image
Necessity, that great refuge and excuse for human frailty, breaks through all law; and he is not to be accounted in fault… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
If we believe in our current penal process, then the penalties imposed by judges and juries should be the only sanctions for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When you've been falsely accused of serious crimes as often I have, you learn to recognize the oncoming inevitability of the next… — David A. McIntee Copy Share Image
“It was Chase who had obtained the information from the girl’s boyfriend during a party in an Irish pub, simply by using… — Stefania Mattana Copy Share Image
There are competing studies on how much crime drops or doesn't drop when there are strict rules on gun possession and sale.… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
Look at the whole criminal correction game, which is a big piece of our economy. It's just an invention. Crime is being… — Jerry Brown Copy Share Image
Publishers are humane men, and rarely commit crimes. Authors, however, are a hardened set, who usually perpertrate a felony every time they… — Robert Barr Copy Share Image
“A contempt for things, for order, cleanliness, must lie on a spectrum with scorn for laws, values, for life itself. What is… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
Good crime writing holds up a mirror to the readers and reflects in a darker light the world in which they live. — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
I was already a wreck when I went in, and prison nearly destroyed what little was left of me. I was worse… — Patricia McConnell Copy Share Image
Violence is the quest for identity. When identity disappears with technological innovation, violence is the natural recourse. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Let's not hate ourselves. We are all we have. ... I have been a longtime perpetrator of hate crimes against myself, and… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
Some people do good to undo the crimes they have done and some do crimes to do good because in the end… — Amit Abraham Copy Share Image
“Your father picks you up from prison in a stolen Dodge Neon with an 8-ball in the glove compartment and a hooker… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
Violence against women is still treated as a lesser crime. Armed groups turn it into a weapon of choice because of near… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
