What grieves me most in my past offenses, O my loving God, is not so much the punishment I have deserved, as… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
To kill someone for committing murder is a punishment incomparably worse than the crime itself. Murder by legal sentence is immeasurably more… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
If my people are wiped out you must destroy all photographs of us, because future generations will look at our photographs and… — Davi Kopenawa Yanomami Copy Share Image
When I set out to write crime fiction, I didn't think to myself, 'I'm going to model myself on Agatha Christie' or… — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
I've got a reputation for doing a certain type of film: lads' movies that glamorise violence. The more my reputation as a… — Nick Love Copy Share Image
Incarceration rates - especially black incarceration rates - have soared regardless of whether crime has been going up or down in any… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
The common sense of mankind demands that law shall not stop with the punishment of petty crimes by little people. It must… — Robert H. Jackson Copy Share Image
Not to know what things in life require remedying is a crime... It leaves you at the mercy of events - it… — Inez Milholland Copy Share Image
Had drugs been decriminalized, crack would never have been invented and there would today be fewer addicts... The ghettos would not be… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
“The shades of the prison house closed round about us all: walls strait and stubborn to the whitest, but relentlessly narrow, tall,… — W.E.B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
I think one of the biggest mistakes that America has made - and maybe the world because this is, sort of, the… — Rudy Giuliani Copy Share Image
If you're into a leather-jacketed crime fighter and his artificially intelligent robotic supercar, tune into 'The Good Wife.' If, on the other… — Dallas Roberts Copy Share Image
We have to recognize we've got some big problems on race, just like we got still big problems on crime, just like… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
They [NYPD] tell you how you can act and what you can do your whole entire life. But they always stayed out… — Ralph Sarchie Copy Share Image
Ingratitude is amongst them a capital crime, as we read it to have been in some other countries: for they reason thus;… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
I spent my time drinking and staring at a television in the airport bar. More death and destruction. Crime. Pollution. All the… — John Twelve Hawks Copy Share Image
“Is it possible that a crime was committed?” the female reporter asked in that excessively empathetic way that’s designed to make inferior… — Jussi Adler-Olsen Copy Share Image
Because you're a crime writer you're asked to have a point of view on a lot of things, and I'm uncomfortable having… — Asa Larsson Copy Share Image
Words can bruise and break hearts, and minds as well. There are no black and blue marks, no broken bones to put… — Marlene Dietrich Copy Share Image
“Prison education is a concept whose time has come. It is time to stop studying the issue and stop discoursing. It is… — Christopher Zoukis Copy Share Image
There is the emergence of a militarized society that now organizes itself for the production of violence. A society in which the… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
You see there are people who believe the function of the police is to fight crime, and that's not true, the function… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
“He saw trust. Complete trust. It was a gift, a precious one, and it humbled him. I've got you, Emeline. I will… — Christine Feehan Copy Share Image
There's a difference between a mistake or even a crime that's been committed by an individual, and between a policy of crime… — Bashar al-Assad Copy Share Image
“there isn't such a thing as a murderer who commits crimes at random. Either he removes people who stand (however insignificantly) in… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
South Africa is such a fraught place to live. The anxiety about crime, the crunching on racial eggshells, the juxtaposition of First… — Rory Carroll Copy Share Image
I go around the world dealing with running and hiding... I can't take a walk in the park . I can't go… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
Our family had been shattered, but we now are more united, and the remains of my family and the majority of my… — Sam Sheppard Copy Share Image
Stupidity cannot be cured. Stupidity is the only universal capital crime; the sentence is death. There is no appeal, and execution is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My focus will always be crime, but it might not always be fiction, nor always for adults, nor books entirely in prose.… — Sarah Weinman Copy Share Image
The cross solved our problem by first revealing our real problem, our universal pattern of scapegoating and sacrificing others. The cross exposes… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
People are kept in line in society because they fear punishment. The assumption that underlies this mentality is that a human being… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“...people called it justice, but prison doesn't make everything better," he observes. "Just because someone pays a price doesn't mean they didn't… — Autumn Doughton Copy Share Image
Our nation's oldest sin and deepest crime is the isolation of minority children - black children, in particular - in schools that… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
The invasion of Panama, what was that? The U.S. killed, according to the Panamanians, 3,000 civilians. Maybe they're right. We don't investigate… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
All is extremely genteel; and there is almost as much repose as in the golden saloons of the contiguous palaces. At any… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
I have done my duty by the laws of my people and I am sorry my people were led this time by… — Ernst Kaltenbrunner Copy Share Image
Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning. Once it does, it becomes the kind of thing… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
We knew the front door was always left open, but we broke in just to keep in practice. Doxy turned all the… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Every study on crime and or firearms proves time and time again, that 99.99999% of American gun owners do not commit crimes… — Ted Nugent Copy Share Image
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