An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship - it is a crime against our nature as human… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
If you commit a big crime then you are crazy, and the more heinous the crime the crazier you must be. Therefore… — Peggy Noonan Copy Share Image
If loving you is a CRIME,I'll be a CRIMINAL. If loving you is WRONG, I don't want to do what's RIGHT. And… — Sheryl Lubin Copy Share Image
“In crime and enmity they lie Who sin and tell us love can die, Who say to us in slander's breath That… — John Clare Copy Share Image
The Manhattan district attorney has closed the well-publicized investigation of the handling of the $300 million fortune of reclusive heiress Huguette Clark… — Bill Dedman Copy Share Image
I have never understood why people identify with criminals: even if your father and grandfather were criminal, you have to find a… — Jasmila Zbanic Copy Share Image
The mood and temper of the public in regard to the treatment of crime and criminals is one of the most unfailing… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
“I once watched several criminals engage in an organized argument, while an audience of supporters cheered them on, but I was so… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“I think that God that we have created and allowed to shape our culture through, essentially Christian theology is a pretty villainous… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
Arresting a single drunk or a single vagrant who has harmed no identifiable person seems unjust, and in a sense it is.… — James Q. Wilson Copy Share Image
You might argue that we have become a little too forgiving because, if a perpetrator shows up at a court-martial with a… — Martin Dempsey Copy Share Image
Destruction is not the law of humans. Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
In the economy we guarantee all market players the same conditions, and the private sector plays an increasingly important role. We are… — Nguyen Minh Triet Copy Share Image
Lagos was a city that had been turned against itself. There was a bridge that became the perfect trap for crimes, which… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
In existing criminology there are concepts: a criminal man, a criminal profession, a criminal society, a criminal sect, and a criminal tribe,… — P.D. Ouspensky Copy Share Image
The passed Pawn is a criminal, who should be kept under lock and key. Mild measures, such as police surveillance, are not… — Aron Nimzowitsch Copy Share Image
Decisions on a matter as serious as charging an individual with a crime cannot be decided on anything less than complete examination… — Robert P. McCulloch Copy Share Image
You can learn all about the human condition from covering the crime beat in a big city - you don't need to… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Torture is senseless violence, born in fear... torture costs human lives but does not save them. We would almost be too lucky… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
The American dream is, in part, responsible for a great deal of crime and violence because people feel that the country owes… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sex is not only a divine and beautiful activity; it's a murderous activity. People kill each other in bed. Some of the… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Violence always seems to me the worst form of tyranny. It deprives people of their rights, including the right to live. — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
This much is clear: violence breeds violence, repression brings retaliation, and only a cleansing of our whole society can remove this sickness… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
The best crime novels are not about how a detective works on a case; they are about how a case works on… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
“Crime writers, I've noticed, can be jumpy. They live in a world where there are murderers on the loose and they haven't… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“The crimes of others are a secret language among us. Through them we show ourselves what we might be capable of, after… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, my stepmother's sister was the chief detective in one of the adjoining towns, so she piqued my… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
David Irving is under arrest in Austria for Holocaust denial. Perhaps there is a case for making climate change denial an offence… — Margo Kingston Copy Share Image
To me violence, once you've done one violent act it leads to another, it leads to another, it leads to another, it… — Lynne Ramsay Copy Share Image
The cross solved our problem by first revealing our real problem, our universal pattern of scapegoating and sacrificing others. The cross exposes… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
I really think more fledgling novelists - and many current and even established novelists - should get out into the real world… — C. J. Box Copy Share Image
Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
THIS dust was once the Man, / Gentle, plain, just and resolute—under whose cautious hand, / Against the foulest crime in history… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Judged by the law of England, I know this crime entails upon me the penalty of death; but the history of Ireland… — Thomas Francis Meagher Copy Share Image
I have been shown in darkness, light, and have learned that even in prison, one can be free. I am grateful. I… — Kayla Mueller Copy Share Image
Most people seem to assume that this dramatic surge in imprisonment was due to a corresponding surge in crime, particularly violent crime. — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
I'm not suggesting that ours [series] is unique in that, but they can begin to have that depth, that gravity, they can… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
Between the action sequences, the pleasure lies in observing impeccably dressed Brits exchanging barbed witticisms - making it, basically, Downton Abbey with… — Karina Longworth Copy Share Image
The dominant culture in most big companies demands punishment for a mistake, no matter how useful, small, invisible... — Tom Peters Copy Share Image