There is a difference between admitting and confessing. Admitting involves softening, making excuses for things that cannot be excused; confessing just names… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Terrorism: deadly violence against humans and other living things, usually conducted by government against its own people. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Though we may not desire to detect fraud, we must not, on that account, endeavor to be insensible of it, for, as… — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
Crime is redeemed by remorse, but not by a blow of the axe or slipknot. Blood has to be washed by tears… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The solving of almost every crime mystery depends on something which seems, at first glance, to bear no relation whatever to the… — Elsa Barker Copy Share Image
The real truth is, the number of convicts is too overwhelming for the means of proper and effectual punishment. I despair of… — Robert Peel Copy Share Image
Any open net was an unforgivable crime meriting immediate punishment, and [Di Stefano] carried out the sentence by stabbing at it like… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
The police represent the authority of the state, the willingness of the state to use violence to assert their will. — Vermin Supreme Copy Share Image
Murder is a horror, but an often necessary horror, never criminal, which it is essential to tolerate in a republican State. Is… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
The worst crime committed by totalitarian mind-sets is that they force their citizens, including their victims, to become complicit in their crimes.… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
“Within the circuits of heteromasculinity in the United States, violence and sex are mutually constituted, a fact most evident among adolescent boys,… — Jane Ward Copy Share Image
There is more to the culture of cruelty than simply ethically challenged policies that benefit the rich and punish the poor, particularly… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Well, I think the Yoruba gods are truthful. Truthful in the sense that i consider religion and the construct of deities simply… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Stealing, of course, is a crime, and a very impolite thing to do. But like most impolite things, it is excusable under… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Human trafficking is a scourge, a crime against the whole of humanity. It is time to join forces and work together to… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
He [Professor Moriarty] is the Napoleon of crime, Watson. He is the organizer of half that is evil and of nearly all… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Tomorrow at 7, I shall be shot; but I am innocent of the crime of rebellion. I am going to die with… — Jose Rizal Copy Share Image
The punishment of death is the war of a nation against a citizen whose destruction it judges to be necessary or useful. — Cesare Beccaria Copy Share Image
Blunt force didn't knock out the drug epidemic. 21 million Americans are addicted to drugs or alcohol. And half of all federal… — Michael Botticelli Copy Share Image
There is a subconscious way of taking violence as a way of expression, as a normality, and it has a lot of… — Salma Hayek Copy Share Image
Mass media over-represents persons of color in negative ways, especially as criminals, relative to the share of crime actually done by such… — Tim Wise Copy Share Image
Is it not a terrible thing to be forced by society to do things which all of us as individuals regard as… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“This violence, as a process, is perpetuated from generation to generation of oppressors, who become its heirs and are shaped by it.” — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
“My head is a prison I’ve been locked in from the start, So if I'm treated like a criminal I might as… — Dan Garfat-Pratt Copy Share Image
The shackles and the chains, the violence and aggression, the pettiness and scorn, the jealousy and hatred, the tempest and discord. — Joe Walsh Copy Share Image
“The slick concrete reflected the facades of the work weary - grey, cracked and old, but more importantly, trodden upon.” — Martin Hopkins Copy Share Image
The law is a gun, which if it misses a pigeon always kills a crow; if it does not strike the guilty,… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
This life of ours, this is a wonderful life. If you can get through life like this and get away with it,… — Paul Castellano Copy Share Image
“The whole thing becomes like this evil enchantment from a fairy tale, but you're made to believe the spell can never be… — Jess C. Scott Copy Share Image
This man, although he may not actually have committed the crime attributed to him, is nevertheless morally culpable, because he is the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think crime fiction is a great way to talk about social issues, whether 'To Kill A Mockingbird' or 'The Lovely Bones;'… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, police violence and white supremacist violence are something that you can set your watch to in the United States of America. — Cord Jefferson Copy Share Image
As a musician I tell you that if you were to suppress adultery, fanaticism, crime, evil, the supernatural, there would no longer… — Georges Bizet Copy Share Image
Like everybody else, criminals of all stripes increasingly rely on wireless communications, hand-held devices, and the Internet. — William Barr Copy Share Image
My life is my JAIL...My Being a REBEL is My CRIME...DEATH will b My FREEDOM...n My COURAGE will bring me MARTYRDOM — Raveen Copy Share Image
The idea that a prisoner would confess to a complete stranger that he had committed a crime - I just didn't buy… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I think there are certain crimes which the law cannot touch, and which therefore, to some extent, justify private revenge. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
When you're poor and black in America, you stand a greater chance of going to prison for something you didn't do. — Anthony Ray Hinton Copy Share Image
Drugs are available to those who want them. And where are those profits going? Into organized crime, [to criminals] who spend their… — Sam Branson Copy Share Image
“but the crime is more important than the punishment. I enliven all of me in my happy instinct for destruction.” — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image