If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach it in the public school, tomorrow… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
Too late I stayed, - forgive the crime! Unheeded flew the hours; How noiseless falls the foot of time That only treads… — Anonymous 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
“I can’t wait for the day when we’ll never have to say ‘goodbye’ to each other again.” — Stephen Douglass Copy Share Image
“The Constitution bans cruel and unusual punishment,” I told him when he stepped down from the podium. “What?” he innocently asked. “Getting… — Chloe Neill Copy Share Image
The Lord Chief Justice of England recently said that the greater part of his judicial time was spent investigating collisions between propelled… — Philip Guedalla Copy Share Image
Attention is powerful and can dampen violence even in seemingly worst conditions. — Zeynep Tufekci Copy Share Image
The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
One of the surprising things I hadn't expected when I decided to write crime fiction is how much you are expected to… — Kathy Reichs Copy Share Image
I grew up reading crime fiction and, especially in the '80s, women were just there to be saved or screwed. — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
I know all about violence and physical abuse because my first husband used to beat me severely when he got drunk. Once,… — Clare Boothe Luce Copy Share Image
We have seen a man dragged to death in Texas simply because he was black. A young man murdered in Wyoming simply… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Abortion is not the lesser of two evils. It is a crime. It is to throw someone out in order to save… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
I have been studying how I may compare this prison where I live unto the world; Shut up in the prison of… — James Ussher Copy Share Image
That kill the bloom before its time, And blanch, without the owner's crime, The most resplendent hair. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
There is something about big cities that turns me on, and for whatever mysterious reason, places like New York and Paris inspire… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Crime is a violation of people and relationships. It creates obligations to make things right. Justice involves the victim, the offender and… — Howard Zehr Copy Share Image
“In the wake of prevalent child rape and child abuse cases reported and unreported; Infliction of “Death Penalty” for child rape irrespective… — Henrietta Newton Martin Copy Share Image
He who meditates a crime secretly within himself has all the guilt of the act. — Juvenal Copy Share Image
The death penalty is discriminatory and does not do anything about crime. — Bobby Scott Copy Share Image
“I’d watched enough television shows on crime to know exactly how to make that mother fucker suffer.” — Jennifer Foor Copy Share Image
Prison is essentially a shortage of space made up for by a surplus of time; to an inmate, both are palpable. — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
... any woman who accepts aloneness as the natural by-product of success is accepting a punishment for a crime she didn't commit.… — Marlo Thomas Copy Share Image
The most miserable prison in the world is the prison we make for ourselves when we refuse to show mercy. — Warren W. Wiersbe Copy Share Image
There has never been any evidence that the death penalty reduces capital crimes or that crimes increased when executions stopped. Tragic mistakes… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
I think I had a particular moment when I was 15 years old. I read 'Crime and Punishment,' and that book just,… — Ron Rash Copy Share Image
Societies without a reservoir of people who don't follow the rules lack an important mechanism for societal evolution. Vibrant societies need a… — Bruce Schneier Copy Share Image
“Suppression or Invalidation of any innate expression of who or what I am is a crime against myself.” — Jean-Jacques Dalpe Copy Share Image
If something is right (or wrong) for us, it’s right (or wrong) for others. It follows that if it’s wrong for Cuba,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
As a teacher of fourth-graders in a public school, where corporal punishement was not allowed, she had years of violence stored up… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
The woman who runs the Pennsylvania Innocence Project told me that there's a man she's been trying to get out of prison… — Richard LaGravenese Copy Share Image
