My dad had a retail business in Leavenworth, Kansas, and there's a whole bunch of prisons there, so it was a backdrop… — Eric Stonestreet Copy Share Image
Of the three official objects of our prison system: vengeance, deterrence, and reformation of the criminal, only one is achieved; and that… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Nothing shocks our moral feelings so deeply as cruelty does. We can forgive every other crime, but not cruelty. The reason for… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Some go to prison for stealing, and others for believing that a better system can be provided and maintained than one that… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
That is why I come forward tonight without any political label, without any bias, but just simply as an Englishman to say… — John Amery Copy Share Image
Something in our nature cries out to be loved by another. Isolation is devastating to the human psyche. That is why solitary… — Gary Chapman Copy Share Image
No matter how many people you kill, using a machine gun in battle is not a war crime because it does not… — Sebastian Junger Copy Share Image
I abhor crime novels in which the main character can behave however he or she pleases, or do things that normal people… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“subjected. In Discipline and Punish Foucault shows that alongside the maturation of the capitalist system of production the scientific location & elucidation… — Charles Bernstein Copy Share Image
If Americans actually have the conversation about our disastrous prison policies, we'll understand the trends all move in very dangerous directions: we… — Dahlia Lithwick Copy Share Image
The new racism, like God, works in mysterious ways and is quite effective in maintaining white privilege. For example, instead of saying… — Eduardo Bonilla-Silva Copy Share Image
All I am really promoting in the books is the Golden Rule, which I hope everybody knows to be "do as you… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
It was a failure of citizenship of the American people that the Bush cabal was allowed to invade Iraq. Thus, every U.S.… — Dahr Jamail Copy Share Image
Do not touch anything unnecessarily. Beware of pretty girls in dance halls and parks who may be spies, as well as bicycles,… — Garry Wills Copy Share Image
The worst crimes against humanity in the last half of the previous century and this century are carried out with conventional advanced… — Ilan Pappe Copy Share Image
One admirable trait in women is their lack of illusions about themselves. They never reason about their most blameworthy actions; their feelings… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Environmental degradation, overpopulation, refugees, narcotics, terrorism, world crime movements, and organized crime are worldwide problems that don't stop at a nation's borders. — Warren Christopher Copy Share Image
Fanaticism displays itself in the masses; but the masses were rarely fanaticised; and the crimes ascribed to it were commonly due to… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
We cannot lightly allow the perpetrator of a serious crime to go free simply because that person believed his actions were reasonable… — Sol Wachtler Copy Share Image
Crime in the cities is very discouraging. Apartment house dwellers have locks, bolts, chains and bars on their doors. It takes a… — Sam Ewing Copy Share Image
Prison, with its daily rhythm, with the transfer and the defense, does not leave any time; prison dissolves time: This is the… — Antonio Negri Copy Share Image
For me, being in prison writing in an African language was a way of saying: "Even if you put me in prison,… — Ngugi wa Thiong'o Copy Share Image
You can remain friends, even without EU membership. The Prüm Convention, according to which data for combatting crime is exchanged, is a… — Geert Wilders Copy Share Image
Children's bodies aren't like automobiles with the assailant's fingerprints lingering on the wheel. The world of sexual abuse is quintessentiall y secret.… — Beatrix Campbell Copy Share Image
Most of us think prison is a place where bad people go - which is what I thought for a long time… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
He was not looking forward to breaking the law. He was straight now. He'd matured. Crime no longer excited him. What?' Ronald… — Jennifer Crusie Copy Share Image
Crimes against children are the most heinous crime. That, for me, would be a reason for capital punishment because children are innocent… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
Over 70% of what are called corruption (cases), even by EFCC (Economic and Financial Crimes Commission) and other anti-corruption agencies, is not… — Goodluck Jonathan Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is freedom, the thought of enlightenment is prison. The truth exists in the moment. If we´re anywhere else, seeking something outside… — Stephen Levine Copy Share Image
“You can never correct criminals by your severe reproach or punishment. You can save them only through your sympathy and love, by… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
Everywhere among the English-speaking race criminal justice was rude, and punishments were barbarous; but the tendency was to do away with special… — Albert Bushnell Hart Copy Share Image
“Practically every fella that breaks the law has a danged good reason, to his own way of thinking, which makes every case… — Jim Thompson Copy Share Image
It doesn't help to wait until something happens and then prosecute the offenders, especially if it's the idea of the offender to… — John Ashcroft Copy Share Image
In fact, I don't believe I'm guilty of any crimes, but I've always been drawn to and fascinated by physical, sexual and… — Jock Sturges Copy Share Image
Each day the worst of our faults, our deficiencies, our crimes, the truth of our lives, is stifled under a triple layer… — Jean Giraudoux Copy Share Image
There exists in this country, sadly, a callous, corrupt and corrupting shadow industry that sells and stows violence against its own people… — Wayne LaPierre Copy Share Image
My great crime wasn't refusing to represent an innocent man; my great crime was imagining that there was some path to racial… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
The bottom line is: If any government has a rule that would legally allow it to punish people for things that don't… — Kat Timpf Copy Share Image
The way the terrorist is trained to operate, especially the suicide terrorists, makes punishment and the threat of punishment far less valuable… — John Ashcroft Copy Share Image
Here in Britain, black people are disproportionately targeted, arrested and imprisoned for drug offences, while organised and violent crime are granted a… — Owen Jones Copy Share Image
