“Once upon a time there were mass media, and they were wicked, of course, and there was a guilty party. Then there… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
When the legislation that passed in the farm bill that says that it’s a federal crime to watch animals fight or to… — Steve King Copy Share Image
Immigration law doesn't exist for the purpose of keeping criminals out. It exists to protect all aspects of American life, the work… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
One admirable trait in women is their lack of illusions about themselves. They never reason about their most blameworthy actions; their feelings… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Capital punishment? It makes no sense as a policy: It's not a deterrent, and economically it's a disaster. It's very clear that… — Tony Goldwyn Copy Share Image
“In the crime novels, a PI is either an ex-cop or has some cop buddies who owed him a favor and who… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
We fight for territory. We see it in our Congress, we see it in our political systems, we see it in our… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
If you turn a blind eye to fare evasion, if you accustom people to getting away with minor crime, you are making… — Boris Johnson Copy Share Image
“I refer to what is called mysterium iniquitatis, meaning, as I see it, that a crime in the final analysis remains inexplicable… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
If there is something occurring that is so bad that it could be considered a crime against humanity, it has to be… — James Nachtwey Copy Share Image
Any time you find the government involved in a conspiracy to violate the citizenship or the civil rights of a people, then… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
No, nothing,' said Dumbledore, and a great sadness filled his face. 'The time is long gone when I could frighten you with… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is not right, my fellow-countrymen, you who know very well all the crimes committed in our name. It's not at all… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
By a beautiful paradox of Divine love, God makes His Cross the very means of our salvation and our life. We have… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
The most popular American fiction seems to be about successful people who win, and good crime fiction typically does not explore that… — George Pelecanos Copy Share Image
When you look at where the real problems are among minorities in our society, particularly blacks, it's at the bottom. It's the… — Clarence Thomas Copy Share Image
As a teacher of fourth-graders in a public school, where corporal punishement was not allowed, she had years of violence stored up… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
Deep thinkers who look everywhere for the mysterious causes of poverty, ignorance, crime and war need look no further than their own… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Society may protect itself without putting a human to death as it would a wild animal. Since we believe each person has… — Richard Viguerie Copy Share Image
Self-reinvention is an essential trope of the American project, closely linked to another such trope: going on the lam. Both are regularly… — Luc Sante Copy Share Image
How can quality crime fiction not be produced with available subject matters as the Industrial Revolution, the Napoleonic Wars, the creation of… — Sarah Weinman Copy Share Image
I have tried to create main characters who are drastically different from the types who generally appear in crime novels. Mikael Blomkvist,… — Stieg Larsson Copy Share Image
Crime is based upon need, making money. People sell drugs to make money. But if everybody is cared for, they don't sell… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
Attention must be given to the penal consequences of violations of the right to peace, including the punishment by domestic courts or… — Alfred-Maurice de Zayas Copy Share Image
The crimes against Palestinians in the Occupied Territories and elsewhere, particularly Lebanon, are so shocking that the only emotionally valid reaction is… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The crime of a bad example is the same whether men follow it or not, because he that gives bad example to… — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
“Freedom and crime are so indissolubly connected to each other, like... well, like the movement of the aero and its velocity. When… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
For all the tribulations in our lives, for all the troubles that remain in the world, the decline of violence is an… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Prosecution I have managed to avoid; but I have been arrested, charged in a police court, have refused to be bound over,… — Laurence Housman Copy Share Image
The man who is admired for the ingenuity of his larceny is almost always rediscovering some earlier form of fraud. The basic… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
“Our society needs criminals like Wolfgang Priklopil in order to give a face to the evil that lives within and to split… — Natascha Kampusch Copy Share Image
While alcohol ... continues to wreak havoc in America, supported by a $6 billion-a-year alcohol industry advertising campaign extolling the joy of… — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
Perhaps I can also add something about the rural setting of Remember You're a One-Ball! The countryside is a place - in… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
“Hidden away behind the closed doors of aristocratic and bourgeois privilege, concealed under those ultra-respectable masks of black frock coat and veil,… — Jennifer Birkett Copy Share Image
The other three incoming calls were from his building superintendent, his pharmacy and a telephone survey company." "Bastards. They always call during… — Rachel Vincent Copy Share Image
“Apparently, we're all in the frame," I heard Harry murmur somewhere behind me. And I whirled back to him. Innate, irrational anger… — Morana Blue Copy Share Image
I assert most unhesitatingly, that the religion of the South is a mere covering for the most horrid crimes—a justifier of the… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“Laws must be efficaciously deterrent in nature, and in grave offences where offenders trespass the precincts of being a human, and commit… — Henrietta Newton Martin Copy Share Image
“Nixon’s dehumanization and demonization of drug offenders had been a (literally) smashing success. Tactics like these had rarely been used in the… — Radley Balko Copy Share Image
“This is the pattern of gun killings in big cities. Most homicides are not professional jobs, in felonious pursuits, but are committed… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
