“His crime had been death itself, and he had been sentenced with life.” — Brian Robert Smith Copy Share Image
To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts. — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Government is violence masquerading as answers to strangers' problems using other peoples' money. — Dan McCall Copy Share Image
Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
People don't mind being in prison as long as no one else is free. But stage a jailbreak, and everybody else freaks… — William Deresiewicz Copy Share Image
Many foster children have had difficulty making the transition to independent living. Several are homeless, become single parents, commit crimes, or live… — Charles Bass Copy Share Image
“The crime was a psychological accident, virtually an impersonal act; the victims might as well have been killed by lightning.” — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
We are going to be working very hard on the inner cities having to do with education, having to do with crime.… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“I consider violence an uneconomical way of attaining an end. There are always better substitutes, though they may sometimes be a little… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“Disarm, disarm. The sword of murder is not the balance of justice. Blood does not wipe out dishonour, nor violence indicate possession.” — Julia Ward Howe Copy Share Image
Violence produces only something resembling justice, but it distances people from the possibility of living justly, without violence. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
A recent report by UNEP and Interpol estimated that between 50 to 90 per cent of logging in key tropical countries of… — Achim Steiner Copy Share Image
No doubt hard work is a great police agent. If everybody were worked from morning till night, and then carefully locked up,… — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
“If you’re not a criminal, then what are you doing stealing all these swords and things?” For a moment he was silent.… — Laura Kinsale Copy Share Image
“As history has repeatedly suggested, nothing is more effective for demolishing traditional legal protections than the combined claims that a crime is… — Sarah Bakewell Copy Share Image
On the other hand, if you suggest to a person who has been a victim of a serious crime that we take… — Bill James Copy Share Image
“Laws must be efficaciously deterrent in nature, and in grave offences where offenders trespass the precincts of being a human, and commit… — Henrietta Newton Martin Copy Share Image
“Nixon’s dehumanization and demonization of drug offenders had been a (literally) smashing success. Tactics like these had rarely been used in the… — Radley Balko Copy Share Image
“This is the pattern of gun killings in big cities. Most homicides are not professional jobs, in felonious pursuits, but are committed… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
“If my faults deserve punishment, my youth at least, and my imprudence were worthy of excuse” — Leanda de Lisle Copy Share Image
Gun control is not the answer to stop crimes committed with firearms, — Steve Largent Copy Share Image
Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't punish, they don't protect, so what the hell do they do? — Jerry Brown Copy Share Image
“Fighting crime by building more jails is like fighting cancer by building more cemetaries.” — Paul Kelly Copy Share Image
For he that but conceives a crime in thought, Contracts the danger of an actual fault. — Thomas Creech Copy Share Image
We enact many laws that manufacture criminals, and then a few that punish them. — Allen Tucker Copy Share Image
We reject the use of national security letters to spy on citizens who are not suspected of a crime. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The word nobody wants to use, but you see if you are here illegally, that's the punishment, deportation. — Tom Tancredo Copy Share Image
“I couldn't believe it. I had broken the law simply by not wearing clothes.” — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
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