Crime fiction confirms our belief, despite some evidence to the contrary, that we live in a rational, comprehensible, and moral universe. — P. D. James Copy Share Image
“No crime too small’ was never exactly Moriarty’s slogan, but the criminal genius would apply himself to minor offences if an unusual… — Kim Newman Copy Share Image
“Effective crime reduction policies involved early parenting classes, increasing the quality of education that children received, and providing children with a safe… — R.D. Brady Copy Share Image
I think people are propelled towards violence, and what propels them is much more interesting than the actual act of violence itself. — Colin Farrell Copy Share Image
Crime is a fact of the human species, a fact of that species alone, but it is above all the secret aspect,… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
What restrains us from killing is partly fear of punishment, partly moral scruple, and partly what may be described as a sense… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I went to prison, for three years I didn't say a word to another human being until, going into the fourth… — Anthony Ray Hinton Copy Share Image
I realized crime isn't the only way you can judge people. People can do good things, and people can do bad things.… — Takeru Kobayashi Copy Share Image
Crime is a human behavior problem, not a mechanical problem. Furthermore, if firearms were not very useful for self-defense, then police wouldn't… — Charley Reese Copy Share Image
Number one, it is absolutely critical that we tone down the rhetoric when it comes to the immigration debate, because there has… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Here's what I think the truth is: We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
When some of the gangs got involved with the drug trade, particularlythe crack cocaine trade, and the lethal violence started to flare… — Meda Chesney-Lind Copy Share Image
“The American craving for illegal, mind-altering, addictive chemicals provides a steady flow of American capital through the Texas border into Mexico and… — William Earl Maxwell Copy Share Image
“Should I talk to her friends?’ he asked softly, because he had to say something to take his mind away from the… — Elisabeth Rose Copy Share Image
There is no right to punish. There is only the power to punish,' she wrote. 'A man is punished for his crime… — Benjamin Moser Copy Share Image
But with dogs, we do have "bad dog." Bad dog exists. "Bad dog! Bad dog! Stole a biscuit, bad dog!" The dog… — Eddie Izzard Copy Share Image
“It was a soulless gaze, burning with a wild hatred that shouldn’t be there in anyone who could call themselves a parent.” — Jess C. Scott Copy Share Image
The Seven Deadly Sins are a litany of victimless crimes, compiled to distract attention from the bloody felonies of the righteous. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
There are certain things that words on paper can never make a crime, .. There are certain acts that by sheer common… — Jack Kevorkian Copy Share Image
With sad, depressing predictability, the children of today's underclass become tomorrow's criminals and dropouts. — Andrew Neil Copy Share Image
I was always shocked in prison because it's a scary place. It's not natural to lock that many people up like that,… — Nikolaj Coster-Waldau Copy Share Image
I didn't make a political speech outside of my state for 20 years. And I just focused almost exclusively on my initiatives… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
The policy of seeking values from human beings by means of force, when practiced by an individual, is called crime. When practiced… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
You may charge me with murder--or want of sense-- (We are all of us weak at times): But the slightest approach to… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
Gun laws are an attempt to nationalize the right of self-defense. Politicians perennially react to the police's abject failure to prevent crime… — James Bovard Copy Share Image
It is difficult to understand precisely what the state hopes to achieve by promoting the creation and perpetuation of a subclass of… — William J. Brennan Copy Share Image
The crime of liberation theology was that it takes the Gospels seriously. That's unacceptable. The Gospels are radical pacifist material, if you… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Why did the people think [Vietnam war] was fundamentally wrong and immoral? The guys who ran the polls, John E. Rielly, a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I used to deal with high-profile criminal cases that were covered extensively in the media, and one of the things I quickly… — Robert Rinder Copy Share Image
“The fantastical idea of virtue and the public good being a sufficient security to the state against the commission of crimes...was never… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
There exists among the intolerable degraded, the perverse and powerful desire to force into the arena of the actual those fantastic crimes… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
“The judicial mechanisms that states employ to accomplish programs of mass incarceration include laws and strategies of enforcement explicitly designed to imprison… — David Cay Johnston Copy Share Image
If you look at the history of Obama, with the crimes he's committed, in office, publicly, and gotten by with that, you… — Lyndon LaRouche Copy Share Image
“I still don't know to this day how she managed to climb the 94 stairs; she was dying from an overdose. The… — Tomas Adam Nyapi Copy Share Image
Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name! Every fool, from king to policeman, from the flatheaded parson… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“So many of the professional foreign policy establishment, and so many of their hangers-on among the lumpen academics and journalists, had become… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
A criminal who, having renounced reason ... hath, by the unjust violence and slaughter he hath committed upon one, declared war against… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
I don't think it should be allowed for people to start working at a young age and not take the time to… — Gaby Hoffmann Copy Share Image
What gives my books authenticity is that I actually do what it is I'm writing about. I think the fact that I… — Kathy Reichs Copy Share Image
Surely in Judas' betrayal it will be no more right, because God both willed that his Son be delivered up, and delivered… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
![“Why did the people think [Vietnam war] was fundamentally wrong and immoral? The guys who ran the polls, John E. Rielly, a professor at the University of Chicago, a liberal professor, he said what that means is that people thought too many Americans had being killed. Another possibility is they…” quote by Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/3e2/noam-chomsky-42_chicago_why-did-the-people-think-vietnam-war-was_2961383.jpg)
