The crimes of the U.S. throughout the world have been systematic, constant, clinical, remorseless, and fully documented but nobody talks about them. — Harold Pinter Copy Share Image
Violence is the most elemental truth of life. It's the central shaper of history, the ultimate determiner of whether A or B… — James Carlos Blake Copy Share Image
What becomes a crime deserving capital punishment when the tables are turned is a matter of small moment when the negro woman… — Ida B. Wells Copy Share Image
“In society, we do horrible things to one another because we don’t see the person it affects. We don’t see their face.… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
I've got a peculiar weakness for criminals and artists. Neither takes life as it is. Any tragic story has to be in… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
Here's a summary for the time or attention challenged: Never surrender freedom for laws that can't affect criminals; they disobey laws for… — Wayne LaPierre Copy Share Image
The prison of lust is just that very one of which the soul shuts the doors upon herself; for each act of… — Plato Copy Share Image
I'm a fast writer, and crime novels are easy to do. It's much harder to write a 1,000 word article, where everything… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
With breathtaking rapidity, we are destroying all that was lovely to look at and turning America into a prison house of the… — Eric Sevareid Copy Share Image
If the people would but analyze the human equation of a prison they might better account for the crimes that are visited… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
Every measurement of where you have more public confidence in creating jobs, American prosperity, controlling crime, health care, providing education, all of… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
How many murders are committed in Gauteng, or in the Western Cape, in a month? A week? A day? An hour? But… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
“Murder cases are like cancer cells. Once they get their hooks into you, the pain and misery just keep on spreading. Whether… — Keigo Higashino Copy Share Image
Once you've acquired a criminal record, you can be discriminated against legally in employment, housing, and access to education and public benefits.… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Many times, I left the prison thinking, 'I'm smart. I can make it. I won't get caught up again.' But you get… — Susan Burton Copy Share Image
Israel is in the midst of a difficult military and diplomatic campaign against terrorists. An organisation that works to prove allegations that… — Uri Orbach Copy Share Image
Many things would be changed for Americans if they would only admit that there is ill-luck in this world and that misfortune… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
All prisons are brimming over with innocence. It is those who cram their fellows into them, in the name of empty ideas,… — Jean Anouilh Copy Share Image
This is an issue that has an exceedingly high number of threads in it. It involves race, it involves culture, it involves… — Matthew Dowd Copy Share Image
The industrial powerhouse of 1950 [Detroit] is now a crime-ridden wasteland with a functioning literacy rate equivalent to West African basket-cases. — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
If you shell a military base and happen to kill civilians, you have not committed a war crime; if you deliberately target… — Sebastian Junger Copy Share Image
Nightly you retrace your steps again to return to the scene of the crime. It's uncanny how you hover in the air… — Aimee Mann Copy Share Image
Four things are destroyed by the other fours: kindness by ingratitude, strength (of government) by crime, power by power and human love… — Khwaja Abdullah Ansari Copy Share Image
You know in my own area of Waltham Forest, we've had many murders as a result of the gang violence and often… — Iain Duncan Smith Copy Share Image
The computer revolution has allowed white-collar criminals to do what the Mob would have loved to do - put a pawnshop and… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The most important element of a free society, where individual rights are held in the highest esteem, is the rejection of the… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
As awful as crime can be, it's what happens afterward - the struggling to get out of bed, to put one foot… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
The victim of mind-manipulation does not know that he is a victim. To him, the walls of his prison are invisible, and… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Lucas took a tentative sip of his coffee. It tasted like an otter had pissed in a tea urn and it had… — Adam Maxwell Copy Share Image
You may chain my hands, you may shackle my feet; you may even throw me into a dark prison; but you shall… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I spent 10 years as a marketing manager. I've found my experience in the financial world invaluable background for writing about white-collar crimes. — Sara Paretsky Copy Share Image
History in general is a collection of crimes, follies, and misfortunes among which we have now and then met with a few… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Michael Koryta is an amazingly talented writer, and I rank The Prophet as one of the sharpest and superbly plotted crime novels… — Donald Ray Pollock Copy Share Image
Obviously local people will have their local voice through the police and crime commissioners that they've elected to determine their local policing. — Theresa May Copy Share Image
We shall not yield to violence. We shall not be deprived of union freedoms. We shall never agree with sending people to… — Lech Walesa Copy Share Image
The victim of mind-manipulati on does not know that he is a victim. To him, the walls of his prison are invisible,… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
If a war be undertaken...before the resources of peace have been tried and proved vain to secure it, that war has no… — Charles Eliot Norton Copy Share Image
No wonder we have a lot of violence in Rio: the corrupt and violent policemen meet the violent criminals in the streets.… — Jose Padilha Copy Share Image
“The world is not a prison house; it is a spiritual kindergarten where millions of bewildered infants are trying to spell G-O-D… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We must restrict the anonymity behind which people hide to commit crimes. As citizens, we have a right to privacy. We have… — Edgar Bronfman, Jr Copy Share Image