A criminal is undoubtedly a poor soul, who is punished for his poverty. — Thomas Bernhard Copy Share Image
Generally speaking, the public appetite for criminal justice policy is just tough talk. — Kamala Harris Copy Share Image
Liberals are stalwart defenders of civil liberties - provided we're only talking about criminals. — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
The first lines of defence against criminals are the victims themselves. — Michael Badnarik Copy Share Image
The criminal classes are so close to us that even the policemen can see them. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Degenerates are not always criminals, prostitutes, anarchists and pronounced lunatics; they are often authors and artists — Max Nordau Copy Share Image
Guilt or innocence becomes irrelevant in the criminal trials as we flounder in a morass of artificial rules poorly conceived and often… — Warren E. Burger Copy Share Image
“One of the true mysteries of life, which still baffles me, is the capacity of some intelligent women to topple head over… — Tim Watson-Munro Copy Share Image
Life and liberty can be as much endangered from illegal methods used to convict those thought to be criminals as from the… — Earl Warren Copy Share Image
“Rather than spending time with the snooty residents of Opal in the department store, she would now be spending time with criminals… — Alane Mills Copy Share Image
If I was a criminal, stationery stores and bakeries would be the two kinds of places I would concentrate on. — John Turturro Copy Share Image
...this new idea of cure instead of punishment, so humane in seeming, had in fact deprived the criminal of all rights and… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I take responsibility for what happened at Enron, both good and bad. But I cannot take responsibility for criminal conduct that I… — Kenneth Lay Copy Share Image
I think how badly things can go wrong in our judicial system. All it took was one person saying that this was… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Today, terrorism threatens a great number of states, a great number of people - hundreds of thousands, millions of people suffer from… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Every court of criminal justice must have the power of correcting the greatest and dangerous of all abuses of the forms of… — David Hume Copy Share Image
We are living in the era of premeditation and the perfect crime. Our criminals are no longer helpless children who could plead… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I stand, walk over to him, sit down on his bed, put my arms around him, hug him. He hugs me back… — James Frey Copy Share Image
Richard Stark writes a harsh and frightening story of criminal warfare and vengeance with economy, understatement and a deadly amoral objectivity-a remarkable… — Anthony Boucher Copy Share Image
I wasn't allowed to watch MTV before school, but somehow I managed to, when I was five or six and Fiona Apple's… — Sky Ferreira Copy Share Image
Conservatives tend to see the world more in terms of good-versus-evil and, for some of them, the nightmare is a disarmed citizenry… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
Once you're labeled a felon, the old forms of discrimination - employment discrimination, housing discrimination, denial of the right to vote, denial… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
We took tea, by Boswell's desire; and I eat one bun, I think, that I might not be seen to fast ostentatiously.… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
A man's liberal and conservative phases seem to follow each other in a succession of waves from the time he is born.… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
Poverty cannot be accepted as a pretext and justification for the exploitation of children. It does not explain the huge global demand… — Vitit Muntarbhorn Copy Share Image
We are trying to identify employers that might be [hiring illegal aliens] and to take effective action against them. We're trying to… — Janet Reno Copy Share Image
Um…” Simon started slowly “at the risk of stating the obvious I feel I have to point out that Interpol has the… — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
Today the Israeli government continues seizures of Palestinian land for settlements, military incursions into surrounding countries and denial of the right of… — Ken Livingstone Copy Share Image
For those who say that the war on drugs and the system of mass incarceration really isn't about race, I say there… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image