Five years of Prohibition have had, at least, this one benign effect: they have completely disposed of all the favorite arguments of… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I feel Aleister Crowley is a misunderstood genius of the 20th century. Because his whole thing was liberation of the person, of… — Jimmy Page Copy Share Image
When you have airplanes with precision weapons, striking hospitals in Aleppo and slaughtering innocent men, women and children, you're committing a war… — John McCain Copy Share Image
I wrote my first real murder story as a journalist for the Daytona Beach News Journal in 1980. It was about a… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
“It is essential to the idea of a law, that it be attended with a sanction; or, in other words, a penalty… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
I think crime is a huge issue for people. If you were living in the poorest state, and you've got drug dealers… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
I don’t know why liberals want to disarm the law-abiding population, but I do know that not a single argument proffered stands… — Paul Craig Roberts Copy Share Image
People who claim that sentencing a murderer to life without the possibility of parole protects society just as well as the death… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“In projecting onto others their own moral sense, therapists sometimes make terrible errors. Child physical abusers are automatically labeled “impulsive," despite extensive… — Anna Salter Copy Share Image
We police in America in communities of color and economically challenging community, we police based on the behavior of the numerical minority… — Eric Adams Copy Share Image
“I studied law at Columbia, but I was more interested in why people committed crimes than I was in defending them. I… — Sarah Morgan Copy Share Image
Whatever the political injustices are that created an environment that brought this about, it was not Americans who flew those planes into… — Robert Fisk Copy Share Image
Antoninus diffused order and tranquility over the greatest part of the earth. His reign is marked by the rare advantage of furnishing… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
This [2016] election is also about, so importantly to me, African-American and Hispanic-American people whose communities have been plunged into crime, poverty… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
In fact, various lawyers' groups - to some extent in the U.S. but mostly in England and Canada and elsewhere - are… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If you complain of people being shot down in the streets, of the absence of communication or social responsibility, of the rise… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
“Unconditional love is like a country of two with no laws and no government. Which is all fine if everyone is peaceful… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
We have seen many other not just writers and intellectuals, but including writers and intellectuals in the Muslim world being attacked and… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I have to say I'm all for public flogging. One type of criminal that a public humiliation might work particularly well with… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
Preliminary research-most of it published outside the medical literature-indicates that a significant number of our patients have experienced some form of violence… — David Schneider Copy Share Image
When we use punishment, our children are robbed of the opportunity to develop their own inner discipline-the ability to act with integrity,… — Barbara Coloroso Copy Share Image
Now documentary evidence is acceptable. What does that mean? If you have documentary evidence that a person served as a guard in… — Marvin Hier Copy Share Image
The most absurd apology for authority and law is that they serve to diminish crime. Aside from the fact that the State… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“A serial killer is a rare and specific criminal profile. In males the motives’re sexual in nature usually, or nonsexual sadism. And… — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share Image
I love Sherlock Holmes. I've got all his books, leather-bound. What I thought was great about Sherlock Holmes was that not only… — Steve Coogan Copy Share Image
If, on a rare occasion, it is necessary to speak with some severity in order to make a grievous crime felt, we… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
“I once knew a fellow who committed robbery with violence, and he was sentenced to a long prison stretch and 12 strokes… — Peter O'Toole Copy Share Image
Indeed, the sort of crimes and even the amount of delinquency that fill the prophets of Israel with dismay do not go… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
“The announced function of the police, “to protect and serve the people,” becomes the grotesque caricature of protecting and preserving the interests… — Joy James Copy Share Image
It was a white-collar crime.” Illium gave her an odd look. “In the human world, such crimes are lightly punished, though they… — Nalini Singh Copy Share Image
How many of us will be saved the pain of seeing the most important things in our lives disappearing from one moment… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
You might hear people decry the loss of privacy in today's world, but radical transparency is dramatically reducing violence everywhere. Most violent… — Peter Diamandis Copy Share Image
And who can suffer injury by just taxation, impartial laws and the application of the Jeffersonian doctrine of equal rights to all… — William Jennings Bryan Copy Share Image
If two people fight on the street, whose fault is it? Who is the criminal? It is the government?s responsibility because the… — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Copy Share Image
I think that we are in a position to continue to make progress, but it's gonna require us to both recognize what… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
We can't just rail against crime. We must speak of the root problems - devastating family breakup, an insidious culture of violence… — Frank Wolf Copy Share Image
Punishment by definition isn't going to help. So what you need to do is to help people to change and recover is… — Maia Szalavitz Copy Share Image
“Let them run ahead. Then I’ll have good reason for shooting them down. Sharpeville? Attempting to escape. Attempting to escape from the… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
The violence inherent in our systems and structures of power is a part of who we are - our thoughts, sensibilities, imaginations,… — Lawrence Joseph Copy Share Image
Human kindness has no reward. You should give to others in every way you see. expect absolutely nothing from anyone. It should… — Louis C. K Copy Share Image