“The State obtains its revenue by coercion, by threatening dire penalties should the income not be forthcoming. That coercion is known as… — Murray N. Rothbard Copy Share Image
Ingratitude is amongst them a capital crime, as we read it to have been in some other countries: for they reason thus;… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
“The young woman's perfect breast didn't yield beneath the gentle pressure of two latexed fingers. "What're you doing?" Professor Robert 'Lithium Bob'… — Morana Blue Copy Share Image
I get in trouble when I say things like, 'I'm attracted to violence.' I was a pretty angry kid, and I got… — Caleb Carr Copy Share Image
We shall look on crime as a disease, and its physicians shall displace the judges, its hospitals displace the Galleys. Liberty and… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“C.J. had once believed that he understood who he was, what he was about, what he was capable of. But when the… — Roy L. Pickering Jr Copy Share Image
People return home from prison and face legal discrimination in virtually all areas of social and economic and political life. They are… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
I am the executioner. When the crime is committed and the Lord God does not take vengeance nor does the exalted State… — Jay Bennett Copy Share Image
For a decade Americans have been steeped in the rhetoric of "zero tolerance" and the faith that virtually all problems from drug… — Ellen Willis Copy Share Image
“When anger is repressed by reason of inability to do immediate harm, it retires into the heart in the form of malice… — John Wortabet Copy Share Image
America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves… It… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
People didn't know who I was or why I was there, so they started inventing stories about me. I was a registered… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
There is a tendency among many shallow thinkers of our day to teach that every human act is a reflex, over which… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Each person is born with a unique individuality, and each person has a destiny of his or her own. Imitation is crime,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I have never conceived that having been in public life required me to belie my sentiments, or to conceal them. Opinion and… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It may be true that encryption makes certain investigations of crime more difficult. It can close down certain investigative techniques or make… — Matt Blaze Copy Share Image
The ability of so many people to live comfortably with the idea of capital punishment is perhaps a clue to how so… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
“Soon after this incident the court rose. As I was being taken from the courthouse to the prison van, I was conscious… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
We have seven and a half times as many people in prison. And we have eight times as many black women in… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
There is no society known where a more or less developed criminality is not found under different forms. No people exists whose… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
Don't Shoot is a work of moral philosophy that reads like a crime novel - Immanuel Kant meets Joseph Wambaugh. It's a… — John Seabrook Copy Share Image
“Destructive and irresponsible freedom has been granted boundless space. Society appears to have little defense against the abyss of human decadence, such… — Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“This may not be art as art commonly goes; the lack of discipline, of control, would seem to rule it out of… — Francis M. Nevins Jr Copy Share Image
“Violence is about the attacker, not the victim. If you weren’t there, your attacker would have chosen some other victim. You are… — Kaje Harper Copy Share Image
“I know that imprisonment will be harder for me than it has ever been for anyone, filled with cowardly threats and hideous… — Fidel Castro Copy Share Image
At the risk of repetition let me say again that my plea is not for immunity to, but for the most unsparing… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“But I will tell you what I say to my children: 'Go where you will; commit what crime you may; fall to… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Egotism is more like an offense, than a crime; though it is allowable to speak of yourself, provided nothing is advanced in… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
An opinion, right or wrong, can never constitute a moral offense, nor be in itself a moral obligation. It may be mistaken;… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
Actual life was chaos, but there was something terribly logical in the imagination. It was the imagination that set remorse to dog… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The Laws of Nature are just, but terrible. There is no weak mercy in them. Cause and consequence are inseparable and inevitable.… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“The Constitution bans cruel and unusual punishment,” I told him when he stepped down from the podium. “What?” he innocently asked. “Getting… — Chloe Neill Copy Share Image
What offends me the most when I hear criticisms about this so-called Africa bias is how quick we are to focus on… — Fatou Bensouda Copy Share Image
“I saw headline in paper: CONGRESS VOWS FIGHT ON CRIME. and I almost sat down and wrote a mother essay, 8 or… — charles bukowski Copy Share Image
Either we need to redefine what probable cause means and say that police are not subject to it, or we arrest officers… — Al Sharpton Copy Share Image
“First, accurately quantifying youth violence is difficult even for experts; therefore, citizens must become better educated about the different conclusions that can… — Sharon L. Nichols Copy Share Image
...Virtually never are murderers the ordinary, law-abiding people against whom gun bans are aimed. Almost without exception, murderers are extreme aberrants with… — Don Kates Copy Share Image
“Then without any warning the car stopped. They were there. "The ride's over," someone said. "End of the ride." For a moment… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
Boko Haram represents the ultimate Fatwa of our time. The question is does the sect's Fatwa represent the articulated position of the… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
To believe that the intolerable crime is to burn a few cars and rob some shops, whereas to kill a young man… — Alain Badiou Copy Share Image
