I think there is a lot of crime caused by desperation, and it doesn't mean that people commit crime because they're poor,… — Peter Moskos Copy Share Image
We said that a single injustice, a single crime, a single illegality, particularly if it is officially recorded, confirmed, a single wrong… — Charles Peguy Copy Share Image
Much is made of the accelerating brutality of young people's crimes, but rarely does our concern for dangerous children translateinto concern for… — Letty Cottin Pogrebin Copy Share Image
The greatest crimes have been found, in many instances, to be compatible with a superstitious piety and devotion; hence it is justly… — David Hume Copy Share Image
There is no crime more infamous than the violation of truth. It is apparent that men can be social beings no longer… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Three months of prison and torture! It’s a terrible ordeal! But for others, it lasts ten years, twenty years! It kills some!”… — Phakyab RINPOCHE Copy Share Image
“Prison is designed to separate, isolate, and alienate you from everyone and everything. You're not allowed to do so much as touch… — Damien Echols Copy Share Image
If I dare to tear up or shed a tear, then I'm criticized for that as well! It's a horrible double standard,… — Nancy Grace Copy Share Image
When you know what you have done wrong, punishment is not so painful because it feels deserved and serves to improve you.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No nation ever taxed itself into prosperity. You could afford your house without the government-if it weren't for the government. Character matters;… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
If a citizen who's committed many crimes, instead of going to prison would say something against me or another politician, or against… — Giulio Andreotti Copy Share Image
I support the death penalty. I think that it has to be administered not only fairly, with attention to things like DNA… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
“Consider the case of two young men—Jeremy Strohmeyer and David Cash Jr.—who walked into a Nevada casino in 1988. Strohmeyer followed a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The young love and cherish people and places from which they receive the skills and the emotional support which enable them to… — James P. Comer Copy Share Image
I was sitting out by my tennis court one day, and I looked up at my house, and it looked like a… — Demond Wilson Copy Share Image
In every man's mind the good seeds of liberty are planted, and he who brings his fellow down so low, as to… — Henry Highland Garnet Copy Share Image
“Before we begin our tour of the drug war, it is worthwhile to get a couple of myths out of the way.… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
It is no solution to define words as violence or prejudice as oppression, and then by cracking down on words or thoughts… — Jonathan Rauch Copy Share Image
The Law waits for you to stumble on a mode of being, a soul different from the FDA-approved purple-stamped standard dead meat… — Hakim Bey Copy Share Image
“SWAT? For me?" Still trembling, one hand clung to the ambulance gurney, the other held a massive sterilised cotton wool wad under… — Morana Blue Copy Share Image
We've seen a shift where people were often initially reluctant to call things terrorism until they knew for sure. And now they… — Daniel Byman Copy Share Image
How does something immoral, when done privately, become moral when it is done collectively? Furthermore, does legality establish morality? Slavery was legal;… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
“There are doubtless those who would wish to lock up all those who suspected of terrorist and other serious offences and, in… — Tom Bingham Copy Share Image
“The level of crime is increasing every day in this country. People being hijacked, raped and killed every second. Abuse , theft… — De philosopher DJ Kyos Copy Share Image
Why does crime happen? Well, you might say that it's because youths don't have jobs. Or you might say that's because the… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
One of the greatest evils of the day among those outside of prison is their sense of futility. Young people say, What… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
I just don't understand, if they see numbers [of CEO salaries]that represent people, how they can somehow skirt around that and morally… — Eddie Vedder Copy Share Image
To accuse another of having weak kidneys, lungs, or heart, is not a crime; on the contrary, saying he has a weak… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
The biggest hypocrites on gun control are those who live in upscale developments with armed security guards - and who want to… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
In rural areas the majority of the victims of violent crime know their assailants (indeed, are probably married to them); in cities,… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
“Kolonia Santita imesambaa dunia nzima. Hapa Meksiko wana magenge rafiki zaidi ya mia moja yakiwemo makubwa kabisa katika Latino ya Matamolos na… — Enock Maregesi Copy Share Image
“many former sins have become crimes’, so that responsibility for dealing with them has passed from church to state, from priest to… — John Stott Copy Share Image
“Let's say that the consensus is that our species, being the higher primates, Homo Sapiens, has been on the planet for at… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
A man in Detroit was sentenced to two years in prison for stealing a woman's car after skipping out on the check… — Seth Meyers Copy Share Image
No one wishes for crisis, but when crises come, they can call forth our best impulses, those of compassion, courage, creativity, and… — David Spangler Copy Share Image
The television screen is the lens through which most children learn about violence. Through the magnifying power of this lens, their everyday… — Sissela Bok Copy Share Image
Vice may triumph for a time, crime may flaunt its victories in the face of honest toilers, but in the end the… — Allan Pinkerton Copy Share Image
Prosecutors frequently overcharge, load up charges on individual defendants, knowing that three strikes laws and harsh mandatory minimum sentences will force people… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Every place in the country you should get a license that shows you know how to safely store it, keep it away… — Michael D. Barnes Copy Share Image
Before we snap to judge someone who's done a horrible crime, is it possible that all of us in the worst possible… — Jack Black Copy Share Image
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