I love cop shows and crime books and thrillers, and before I die I'm gonna play a cop. — Amy Sedaris Copy Share Image
The real unforgivable acts are committed by calm men in beautiful green silk rooms, who deal death wholesale, by the shipload, without… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
I'm sure if the punishment fits the crime, or is more severe, you're going to start stamping out a lot of things… — Alan Curbishley Copy Share Image
I want to get out in the community and make sure everyone knows I'm not some renegade driver that's out there and… — Jayson Werth Copy Share Image
Today I live on an island, in a house that is sad, hard, severe, that I built for myself, solitary on a… — Curzio Malaparte Copy Share Image
“Your colleague, Captain Grimes, has been convicted before me on evidence that leaves no possibility of his innocence - of a crime… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
I think intellectual property is more like land, and copyright violation is more like trespass. Even though you don't take anything away… — Brad Templeton Copy Share Image
Depression is a prison to which you have the key except you never think to look for it. — Kevin Hearne Copy Share Image
“The punishment approach and bad consequences approach to treatment is the kind of thinking that is prevalent in every residential substance abuse… — Chris Prentiss Copy Share Image
Crime can be a unifying argument - not an argument that people use as a code for us vs. them. — Charles Schumer Copy Share Image
“Criminal justice" is what happens after a complicated series of events has gone bad. It is the end result of failure--the failure… — Paul Delano Butler Copy Share Image
The murder of John Kennedy in broad daylight in the streets of an American city remains, to me, an unsolved crime. — Charlie Pierce Copy Share Image
The violence of love is as much to be dreaded as that of hate. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There's a real emphasis on being witty in Scotland, even in crime novels. — Denise Mina Copy Share Image
The Zoo is a prison for animals who have been sentenced without trial and I feel guilty because I do nothing about… — Russell Hoban Copy Share Image
“We have a system of terrorizing punishment meted out directly to more than two million people in prison and to another five… — Mark Lewis Taylor Copy Share Image
I will never have a drink and get behind the wheel of a car. It's not illegal to drink and drive, but… — Tracey Gold Copy Share Image
I reiterate my proposal of creating life sentences for politicians who make deals with organized criminals. They deserve the maximum penalty because… — Josefina Vazquez Mota Copy Share Image
“The only proper purpose of a government is to protect man's rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence. A proper… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
In the 1990s, Michael Jordan was the preeminent athlete in the country. And when the product with his name on it seemed… — Melissa Harris-Perry Copy Share Image
What does fighting crime mean, exactly? Does it mean upholding the law when a woman shoplifts to feed her children, or does… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
I am convinced that imprisonment is a way of pretending to solve the problem of crime. It does nothing for the victims… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Crime, after all, can be a way of establishing identity or acquiring security - at least the magistrate addresses you by name. — Ariana Franklin Copy Share Image
I'm 68 years old, and I'm as much a criminal now as I was at the age of 22. And, I'm even… — Felice Picano Copy Share Image
“ ...there is no head of state in the world today who is not in virtuality a criminal . Those who shoulder… — Giorgio Agamben Copy Share Image
“What am I driving at? At this idea: that no one colonizes innocently, that no one colonizes with impunity either; that a… — Aimé Césaire Copy Share Image
In the city, a lot of crime happens, a lot of violence happens from time to time, — Victor Cruz Copy Share Image
Twice in his life Eugene Victor Debs took the long leap to the Ultima Thule of prison, passing beyond the realm of… — Marguerite Young Copy Share Image
Others drink for sterility and commit murder on the human not yet sown. Some when they sense that they have conceived by… — St. Jerome Copy Share Image
If you're gonna judge people by crimes, you get into a quagmire. If you're gonna judge people by themselves, by who and… — Wilbert Rideau Copy Share Image
In everything I've written, the crime has always just been an occasion to write about other things. I don't have a picture… — Peter Temple Copy Share Image
Historically, it appears that society has capitalized on what is at most a degree of difference between the sexes in order to… — Freda Adler Copy Share Image
A method of procuring sensations? Do you think then, that a man who has once committed a murder could possibly do the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“As the rules of acceptable discourse changed, however, segregationists distanced themselves from an explicitly racist agenda. they developed instead the racially sanitized… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
If the people are governed by laws and punishment is used to maintain order, they will try to avoid the punishment but… — Confucius Copy Share Image
After the Donald Trump's election, there was a surge of hate crimes. We saw acts of vandalism, certainly a lot of slander… — Jonathan Greenblatt Copy Share Image
