There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
[Tim White] always spoke about his work in terms of forensics, as if he was investigating a crime scene. While we were… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
There is a significant moral difference between a person who commits a violent crime and a person who tries to cross a… — Madeleine Albright Copy Share Image
To crush, to annihilate a man utterly, to inflict on him the most terrible of punishments so that the most ferocious murderer… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
... imprisonment itself, entailing loss of liberty, loss of citizenship, separation from family and loved ones, is punishment enough for most individuals,… — Mary B. Harris Copy Share Image
Human beings can be redeemed. Empires cannot. Our refusal to face the truth about empire, our refusal to defy the multitudinous crimes… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
Everyday, day & night, we hear the lies that September 11th is the worst tragedy, worst accident, and worst crime to ever… — Malik Zulu Shabazz Copy Share Image
I want to get out in the community and make sure everyone knows I'm not some renegade driver that's out there and… — Jayson Werth Copy Share Image
When we hear men are the greater victims of crime, we tend to say, 'Well, it's men hurting other men.' When we… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
When one in three Black men are in prison, those larger systemic injustices become a part of what it means to love… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
Detroit is still seen as the tough city, a city that has a reputation for high crime, ... The tough city thing… — Eugene Levy Copy Share Image
Society is the true sphere of human virtue. In social, active life, difficulties will perpetually be met with; restraints of many kinds… — Elizabeth Carter Copy Share Image
If Americans actually have the conversation about our disastrous prison policies, we'll understand the trends all move in very dangerous directions: we… — Dahlia Lithwick Copy Share Image
You have a guy like Bernie Madoff literally steal $80 billion, you know, AIG steal hundreds of billions, Goldman Sachs. Crime has… — Adam McKay Copy Share Image
I'm snobby about books that aren't crime fiction: if I start reading a literary novel and there's no mystery emerging in the… — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
“If you kill one person is called a crime, and you are called a criminal. If you kill ten people you are… — Beta Metani' Marashi Copy Share Image
“I write that crime is an unlawful act of violence that can be committed by anyone, and that punishment is the consequence… — Mahbod Seraji Copy Share Image
Today the crime novelist has one advantage denied to writers of 'straight' or 'literary' novels. Unlike them he can range over all… — Allan Massie Copy Share Image
There's a very complex connection between crime and addiction, because a lot of people are committing crime to either fuel their drug… — Kevin Sabet Copy Share Image
We learned this week that Mitt Romney is building a car elevator in his house. An elevator for your cars. I get… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
Then, in my most careful handwriting, come all the details it would be a crime to forget. Lady licking Prim's cheek. My… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
“The perfect criminal, should he or she exist, would be the one who is never apprehended - indeed, the one whose crimes… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
“This is a speech we've all heard before. From the con artists who aren't like the burglars, who aren't like the armed… — Ben Aaronovitch Copy Share Image
Physical nature lies at our feet shackled with a hundred chains. What of the control of human nature? Do not point to… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
Doing crime films...maybe it's to some extent a matter of taste. Certainly my first novel had a criminal element and was about… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
All I am really promoting in the books is the Golden Rule, which I hope everybody knows to be "do as you… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Six months have passed since that horrible, horrible event of terrorism in the twin towers and Washington. I hope people all over… — Hamid Karzai Copy Share Image
As long as there are guns, the individual that wants a gun for a crime is going to have one and going… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“The only unforgivable crime is to cut short the experiment of one’s own life before its natural end. To do so is… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Society takes upon itself the right to inflict appalling punishment on the individual, but it also has the supreme vice of shallowness,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules. It's people who follow orders that drop bombs… — Banksy Copy Share Image
All people make mistakes. All of us are sinners. All of us are criminals. All of us violate the law at some… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“The real point here, however, is not that innocent people are locked up. That has been true since penitentiaries first opened in… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“How easily such a thing can become a mania, how the most normal and sensible of women once this passion to be… — Kathryn Hurn Copy Share Image
In the name of a greater civilization, we curse those who for the sake of their ambitious dreams, brought about the massacre… — Amadeo Bordiga Copy Share Image
Yes, [Philadelphia is] horrible, but in a very interesting way. There were places there that had been allowed to decay, where there… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Not moving because things are unfamiliar-and you haven't bothered to learn how to operate on them-I think is really a crime. The… — Orit Gadiesh Copy Share Image
I'm certainly very influenced by what you would call "contemporary headline horror," stuff that is true crime or for one reason or… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
“Ano pong ibig sabihin nitong preventive detention? The meaning of preventive detention is Mr. Marcos thinks that next month, you will commit… — Ninoy Aquino Copy Share Image
“The critical point is that thousands of people are swept into the criminal justice system every year pursuant to the drug war… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image