“She didn't realize she was in a prison until she collided with the bars.” — Joyce Rachelle Copy Share Image
People are angry and dispirited about government because of a failure to do something about crime. — Charles Schumer Copy Share Image
Depression is a prison where you are both the suffering prisoner and the cruel jailer. — Dorothy Rowe Copy Share Image
The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up. — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
“I thought you made coffee." "We do. We also fight crime. Don't you read the papers?” — Kristen Ashley Copy Share Image
The fact that a crime might have been committed with impunity in the past may make it seem more familiar and less… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
You can't use a drawing to prove a war crime. A drawing doesn't have that notion that it's proof of a reality.… — Molly Crabapple Copy Share Image
You know that murder is wicked. If you saw your master kill a man, do you suppose this would be any excuse… — Jupiter Hammon Copy Share Image
I'm good with a grill. I like to make cheeseburgers - I once read in a David Goodis crime novel that you're… — Noah Baumbach Copy Share Image
“Anxiously, he touched the lump on his head again, then felt his injured leg, groaning. "The whole affair is a mystery to… — Henry Winterfeld Copy Share Image
The convoluted wording of legalisms grew up around the necessity to hide from ourselves the violence we do to each other. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“Sex Piston, if you don’t quit bugging your sister, the police are going to be charging me with another crime,” Knox threatened.” — Jamie Begley Copy Share Image
Let the punishments of criminals be useful. A hanged man is good for nothing; a man condemned to public works still serves… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“In addition, when a neighborhood's crime victims are portrayed as victims-sympathetically and without blame, as humans rather than as statistics-people living in… — Barry Glassner Copy Share Image
Multiple studies, including from the Justice Department, have shown that the guns used in homicides, including the killing of police officers, overwhelmingly… — Radley Balko Copy Share Image
“I like a good detective story," he said. "But, you know, they begin in the wrong place! They begin with the murder. But the murder is the end. The story begins long before that—years before sometimes with all the causes and events that bring certain people to a certain place at a certain time on a certain day.” — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“How odd it is, thought March afterwards, to live your life in ignorance of the past, of your world, yourself. Yet how… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
We have come a long way, particularly in terms of women becoming more equal under the law. Fortunately, workplace discrimination is now… — Tara Moss Copy Share Image
Given that by age 23, almost a third of Americans are arrested for a crime, it becomes clear that in the new… — Henry Giroux 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
Aggression is simply another name for government. Aggression, invasion, government, are interconvertible terms. The essence of government is control, or the attempt… — Benjamin Tucker Copy Share Image