No, life cannot be understood flat on a page. It has to be lived; a person has to get out of his… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
A life sentence without parole protects public safety while sparing us the barbarity of killing our own. It teaches our children that… — Mike Farrell Copy Share Image
If your subject is crime, then you know at least that you're going to have a real story. If your subject is… — Donald E. Westlake Copy Share Image
Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
We cannot afford all this illegal immigration and everything that comes with it, everything from the crime and to the drugs and… — Jan Brewer Copy Share Image
I work in an old tradition that goes back to the ancient Greeks. You hold a mirror to crime to see what's… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
“There was noise in the corridor outside Alice’s office; and though it was nothing of concern, they separated. Roger stood, fingers tucked… — Andrew Barrett Copy Share Image
Before Katrina, you didn't see criticism of the Bush administration in the media. Here they are, stealing elections, enacting illegal wars, huge… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
When you're from New York, people take a second look at you. In Virginia, the other players always asked about the fast… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
There is all the difference in the world between the criminal's avoiding the public eye and the civil disobedience's taking the law… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
How do we know when someone like Hasan is going to make his move and do we know he's an Islamist until… — Chris Matthews Copy Share Image
“To those who abuse: the sin is yours, the crime is yours, and the shame is yours. To those who protect the… — Flora Jessop Copy Share Image
I don't know what's wrong with it: if you commit a crime, you've overstayed our welcome. If I have guests in my… — Geert Wilders Copy Share Image
Drug offenses ... may be regarded as the prototypes of non-victim crimes today. The private nature of the sale and use of… — John Kaplan Copy Share Image
My mother and I are more than best friends; we are partners in crime. After she and my father, Quincy Jones, separated… — Rashida Jones Copy Share Image
“If you don't recognize your own crimes, there's no impediment to continuing them. There's a pretty dramatic example of that right at… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Crime is one of the leads of the show. If there's ever anything that deals with a character's personal life, you don't… — Christopher Meloni Copy Share Image
To punish a man because we infer from the nature of some doctrine which he holds, or from the conduct of other… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
From the very beginning, our state and national constitutions and laws have laid great emphasis on procedural and substantive safeguards designed to… — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
“Research on organised abuse emphasises the diversity of organised abuse cases, and the ways in which serious forms of child maltreatment cluster… — Michael Salter Copy Share Image
On the Continent, every attempt to substitute a lighter punishment for death was fiercely denounced as a direct violation of the Divine… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
But that's not how most of the people mentioned in this book became wealthy. Most of them became wealthy by being well… — Charles Ferguson Copy Share Image
We think every state should have hate crimes laws. It's worth sharing that five states today don't have hate crimes laws, including… — Jonathan Greenblatt Copy Share Image
We talk about civilization as though it's a static state. There are no civilized people yet, it's a process that's constantly going… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
When we first started to write our first movie, 'You Are Going To Prison,' we wanted it to be crazy and unique,… — Robert Ben Garant Copy Share Image
“The conscious or unconscious decision to use violence, or to do most anything, involves many mental and emotional processes, but they usually… — Gavin de Becker Copy Share Image
Sadly, the same leaders who call on Palestinians to abandon violence have been silent in the face of Israeli repression. By condemning… — Yousef Munayyer Copy Share Image
“The racism of the colonial state was also reflected in its penal code. The Criminal Tribes Legislation, 1911, gave authority to the… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
In the face of this approaching disaster, it behooves men and women not yet overcome by war madness to raise their voice… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
How come life in prison doesn't mean life? Until it does, we're not ready to do away with the death penalty. Stop… — Jesse Ventura Copy Share Image
They who once engage in iniquitous designs miserably deceive themselves when they think that they will go so far and no farther;… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
“He began as a minor imitator of Fitzgerald, wrote a novel in the late twenties which won a prize, became dissatisfied with… — Barry N. Malzberg Copy Share Image
Nations sometimes flourish by denying the crimes that brought them into being. Only when the original invasion, occupation, extermination or usurpation has… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
For a long time, I missed being in the courtroom every day. I missed trial work. It was so much a part… — Marcia Clark Copy Share Image
“The killer's name was Michael Stone and he was a known psychopath. He had previous convictions. But the law stated that only… — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
“An age cannot bind itself and ordain to put the succeeding one into such a condition that it cannot extend its (at… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Female genital mutilation targets little girls, baby girls - fragile angels who are helpless, who cannot fight back. It's a crime against… — Waris Dirie Copy Share Image
As a law-enforcement official, as a politician, you are always going to have in the back of your mind the fear that… — Chesa Boudin Copy Share Image
There will be occasions when someone has suffered a crime where it is either obvious that they are not looking for an… — Cressida Dick Copy Share Image
The mechanism that directs government cannot be virtuous, because it is impossible to thwart every crime, to protect oneself from every criminal… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
