“Anyway, it was big and I set up the trickiest structure. Accounts all over the world and money flying around like... The… — Dan Ahearn Copy Share Image
I have a letter from a police inspector, retired after some 30 years in rural Derbyshire, alerting me to the potential impact… — Baroness Byford Hazel Byford Copy Share Image
Since 9/11, the Justice Department has been widely criticized for one particular tactic it uses in fighting the War on Terror: it… — Annie Jacobsen Copy Share Image
I know what it's like to be ignored, and I think that is the big problem about the prison system: These people… — Lee Tergesen Copy Share Image
“This is a man who spent his adult life at the bottom of a bottle, trying to anesthetize himself against the Capitol’s… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
So, what exactly is the News-Press' unforgivable crime? Calling illegal aliens 'illegals' in a headline for a story about illegal aliens descending… — Michelle Malkin Copy Share Image
How many serious family quarrels, marriages out of spite, and alterations of wills, might have been prevented by a gentle dose of… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
I always tell people what I did 50 years ago as a teenager is now 4,000 times easier to do today than… — Frank Abagnale Copy Share Image
A prominent judge was asked what we, as citizens of the countries of the world, could do to reduce crime and disobedience… — Thomas S. Monson 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
“There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Contrary to what the media tell us, I can certify that there are very few rapists, ax murderers, and meth lab motels… — Tamela Rich Copy Share Image
“- Can you keep secrets? - Yesss. - We are going to make one of the biggest coffeeshops in Barcelona with my… — Tomas Adam Nyapi Copy Share Image
It is not the conscience which raises a blush, for a man may sincerely regret some slight fault committed in solitude, or… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Societies have debated the severity of punishment for vile acts over millennia, with complex moral arguments on both sides of the question.… — Rohini Nilekani Copy Share Image
“The nature of psychological compulsion is such that those who act under constraint remain under the impression that they are acting on… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Life is a solitary confinement , Every second is a punishment - of a crime , that was never committed , Or… — BinYamin Gulzar Copy Share Image
We are guilty of many errors and many faults, but our worst crime is abandoning the children, neglecting the fountain of life.… — Gabriela Mistral Copy Share Image
Your novels show only the tiniest fraction of detective work, the brilliant crime, the tantalizing clues, the dramatic chase, the final battle… — Stefan Petrucha Copy Share Image
“What if an American citizen needs to disappear, for reasons that might never be revealed to you, and you are involved, even… — Nick Drnaso Copy Share Image
“All boys wish to be manly; but they often try to become so by copying the vices of men rather than their… — James Freeman Clarke Copy Share Image
There's a political reality about impeachment. It's purely a political process. The interpretation of "high crimes and misdemeanors" can reach a long… — John Dean Copy Share Image
He was a first-time nonviolent possible offender, ... And under the mandatory minimums, he was put in prison for 15 years. Not… — Carly Simon Copy Share Image
Nothing can justify crimes such as those of September 11, but we can think of the United States as an innocent victim… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“She was trying to find the section that described the penalties for treason. She'd browsed through the section at one point and… — Daniel O'Malley Copy Share Image
But the most heinous crime of the Church has been perpetrated not against churchmen but against churchgoers. With its poisonous concepts of… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
You don't hear TV cops griping because they have to enforce some Draconian law that shouldn't be on the books in the… — Tom Shales Copy Share Image
We've got the emPHAsis on the wrong sylLAble when it comes to crime in this country. The FBI says burglary and robbery… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
The continued increase in many crime indicators and the fact that the overall crime rate has not seen a marked decrease while… — Stephen Harper Copy Share Image
“It is often said that Vietnam was the first television war. By the same token, Cleveland was the first war over the… — Sue Richardson Copy Share Image
Through centuries of struggle, Jews across the world have been witnesses not only against the crimes of men, but for faith in… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
We are experiencing a real confusion here in the United States, you know. Why is it OK to drink, but it's not… — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
The king governs without decapitation or (other) corporal punishments. Criminals are simply fined, lightly or heavily, according to the circumstances (of each… — Faxian Copy Share Image
“Vengeance and forgiveness are about reconciling the accounts, but accounting is an ugly description of the tangled ways we're connected. I sometimes… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“And then, with a shock like high-voltage coursing through me, the phone beside me started pealing thinly. I just stood there and… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
I have lost stories and many starts of novels before. Not always as punishment for 'telling,' but more often as a result… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
The laws that forbid the carrying of arms...disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. Can it be… — Cesare Beccaria Copy Share Image
The convoluted wording of legalisms grew up around the necessity to hide from ourselves the violence we intend toward each other. Between… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“Every student doffed his hat when the president approached, and bowed as he passed, or faced his wrath. Freshmen, meanwhile, acted as… — Alexander Rose Copy Share Image
Societies without a reservoir of people who don't follow the rules lack an important mechanism for societal evolution. Vibrant societies need a… — Bruce Schneier Copy Share Image
