“There comes a time, however, when violence is seen as juvenile and boring. It is the repartee of the stupid and ignorant.” — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
Our body remains alive, yet sooner or later our soul will receive a mortal blow. The perfect crime--for we don't know who… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“Then our crime's worse than a murderer's. His act puts him outside the law, but keeps the law intact. Ours would weaken… — Walter Van Tilburg Clark Copy Share Image
The criminal justice system in the United States is designed to do two things really well: to railroad black and brown bodies… — Joy Reid Copy Share Image
People don't understand that you can actually lose your life going to jail. There's more violence in the jail-house than there is… — Snoop Dogg Copy Share Image
I realized that I got problems bigger than anything that can happen in prison. So I started reading books, talking to people… — Tee Grizzley Copy Share Image
If we were really tough on crime, we'd try to save our children from the desperation and deprivation that leave them primed… — Carrie P. Meek Copy Share Image
“Punishment is not the answer. Punishment is easy. It’s lazy. Redemption is hard. Redemption makes you work.” -Skulduggery” — Derek Landy Copy Share Image
What matters is the way we Americans think about ourselves. We think about ourselves as incapable of committing crimes. Everything we do,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Never has there been a map, however carefully executed to detail and scale, which has carried its owner over even one inch… — Og Mandino Copy Share Image
Sometimes the crime follows the punishment, which only serves to prove the foresight of the Great God." "That's what my grandmother used… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The mainstream has lost its way. Crime fiction is an objective, realistic genre because it's about the real world, real bodies really… — Michael Dibdin Copy Share Image
I think today we've gone so far technologically and also just emotionally and psychologically, I mean there's a lot of crime out… — Johnny Depp Copy Share Image
Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe. It is… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Armenians, as a people that have survived the Genocide, have a moral duty towards mankind and history in the prevention of genocides.… — Serzh Sargsyan Copy Share Image
Individually the poor are not too tempting to thieves, for obvious reasons. Mug a banker and you might score a wallet containing… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
“Aren't the Amish against violence? Yes, but you see, I'm not very good at being Amish...so remember what I say.” — Kelly Long Copy Share Image
“She's a princess and you're a jock," he says. He thrusts his chin toward Bronwyn, then at Nate. "And you're a brain.… — Karen M. McManus Copy Share Image
Fighting a war on terrorism is like fighting against crime. We can never hope to eradicate crime, so we shouldn't bother fighting… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Conditioned to feel nothing. We turn our backs on all the crimes. They say what we don't know wont hurt us, but… — Hatebreed Copy Share Image
“In these electric times the criminal receives a cosmopolitan reputation. It is a privilege he shares with few other artists.” — Israel Zangwill Copy Share Image
Japan has a low crime rate, unless you count the fact that approximately every fifteen minutes the entire Cabinet gets indicted for… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
It's part of my life to feel like a criminal, to have eyes in my back and see if I'm being followed.… — Philippe Petit Copy Share Image
'Criminal Minds' consists of stories told within the framework of the FBI behavioral science unit. It's about serial profiling. — Nina Tassler Copy Share Image
Vices are simply the errors which a man makes in his search after his own happiness. Unlike crimes, they imply no malice… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
In my view, aiming at simplicity and lucidity is a moral duty of all intellectuals: lack of clarity is a sin, and… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
With the police thriller genre, people come to it with an expectation. It allows you to get away with a bit of… — Jed Mercurio Copy Share Image
“What will you do on b the day of punishment, in the ruin that will come c from afar? To whom will you flee… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Leniency toward criminals contrasted starkly with severity toward the law-abiding citizen’s right to defend himself or herself.” — Joyce Lee Malcolm Copy Share Image
I think the English are bipolar. 'We're the greatest, no we're terrible' - that's a constant English struggle. Crime is down, there's… — Dara O Briain Copy Share Image
On eluding conviction after mistrial: Why me? I am blessed. I can't complain. I am walking out the door. I am going… — John A. Gotti Copy Share Image
The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, forgotten because it was properly done. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“I said then, and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it; while there is a… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
It is a crime to put a Roman citizen in chains, it is an enormity to flog one, sheer murder to slay… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“Prison is, you don’t judge people, you accept them. If they get out of line you knock them out. When in doubt,… — Marlin Marynick Copy Share Image
Punishment may make us obey the orders we are given, but at best it will only teach an obedience to authority, not… — Bruno Bettelheim Copy Share Image
You either believe that people respond to authority, or that they respond to kindness and inclusion. I'm obviously in the latter camp.… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Having gone through what I went through, watching my family be torn to shreds and my children suffer immensely, I can't be… — Jack Abramoff Copy Share Image
The best crime novels are all based on people keeping secrets. All lying - you may think a lie is harmless, but… — Alafair Burke Copy Share Image
“Executing a criminal often makes a martyr of him. Once he's dead and gone, people all too often forget the crimes he's… — John Flanagan Copy Share Image
