When the enterprising burglar isn't burgling; When the cut-throat isn't occupied in crime; He loves to hear the little brook a-gurgling; And… — W. S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
“She had a sense of herself being brain dead: running on tubes and machines.” — Caroline B. Cooney Copy Share Image
A criminal who, having renounced reason ... hath, by the unjust violence and slaughter he hath committed upon one, declared war against… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Violence as a way of gaining power... is being camouflaged under the guise of tradition, national honor [and] national security... — Alfred Adler Copy Share Image
... as recently as the mid-1970s, the most well-respected criminologists were predicting that the prison system would soon fade away. Prison did… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
When you're in prison, and we're left to our own devices, you're stripped of everything, and you really get to see who… — Laura Prepon Copy Share Image
Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create. — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The government has created a nation of paper criminals. People can be put in jail and lose civil rights and liberties through… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Violating the 4th Amendment guarantees against illegal searches and seizures is not the way to solve crime problems. — Tim Wise Copy Share Image
The Roots of Violence: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice,… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
My experience and research has led me to the regrettable conclusion that our system of mass incarceration functions more like a caste… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“Time's an unsealed envelope and crime's a metaphor for anguish, private symphonies of intensity exploding in the dark.” — Chris Kraus Copy Share Image
A state is not a mere society, having a common place, established for the prevention of mutual crime and for the sake… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Affliction hardens and discourages us because, like a red hot iron, it stamps the soul to its very depths with the scorn,… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
When you teach your students that it's "economically rational" to commit crimes where the fines for misconduct are lower than the expected… — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
Presumptions of guilt or innocence may sometimes be strengthened or weakened by the place of birth and kind of education and associates… — Levi Woodbury Copy Share Image
“Oh,' said a very white body as it threw a wrist watch to the ground which broke without attracting anyone's attention, 'Oh,… — Robert Desnos Copy Share Image
I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Rape is a more heinous crime than murder since the rape victim dies throughout the period she lives. — Amit Abraham Copy Share Image
I want prisons to be spartan, but humane, a place people don't have a particular desire to come back to. — Chris Grayling Copy Share Image
A question settled by violence, or in disregard of law, must remain unsettled forever. — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
Prison life, fortunately, I spent a lot of years, about 18 years with other prisoners, and, as I say, they enriched your soul. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Everywhere - all over Africa and South America - you see these suburbs springing up. They represent the optimum of what people… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
In many large urban areas, the majority of working age African American men now have criminal records and are thus subject to… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, my stepmother's sister was the chief detective in one of the adjoining towns, so she piqued my… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
It is a crime against the State to be powerful enough to commit one. — Pierre Corneille Copy Share Image
Detroit is still seen as the tough city, a city that has a reputation for high crime, ... The tough city thing… — Eugene Levy Copy Share Image
Our most conservative estimates show that by adopting shall-issue laws(concealed carry laws), states reduced murders by 8.5%, rapes by 5%, aggravated assaults… — John R. Lott Jr Copy Share Image
“The sticklers Truss appeals to in the book are distinguished by several features. One is anger out of proportion to the crime.… — Robert Lane Greene Copy Share Image
Private appropriation of the Earth’s surface, the natural resources, and the means of life is nothing less a crime than a crime… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
Family violence is a criminal act; perpetrators, while often former victims themselves, need to accept culpability. — Leslie Morgan Steiner Copy Share Image
The police have enough work to keep them busy regulating automobile traffic, preventing robberies and crimes of violence and helping lost children… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The biggest crime in Nabokov's 'Lolita' is imposing your own dream upon someone else's reality. Humbert Humbert is blind. He doesn't see… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
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