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
All we can do is adapt the way we view this condition, not as a crime or a romantic affectation but as… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
What is the motive to the secret ballot? This, and only this: Like other confederates in crime, those who use it are… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
Perhaps it's true you can't go back in time, but you can return to the scene of a love, of a crime,… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
“I dealt with people like this for 20 years. They will get up every day. They will kill somebody and go have… — on Hannity & Colmes Former LAPD Detective Mark Fuhrman Copy Share Image
“Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes reminded us, it is a ‘less evil that some criminals should escape than that the government should play… — Guy Lawson Copy Share Image
Crime shows are good, but I wouldn't like to watch too many of them, as they can be a downer. — Mohnish Bahl Copy Share Image
I always say, "Never give your lead character an infant. Make them a recovering alcoholic, or the victim of a horrible violent… — Julie Plec Copy Share Image
If life is a punishment, one should wish for an end; if life is a test, one should wish it to be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“This all fits in neatly with the history of American crime. Briefly, it’s the story of two kinds of lawbreakers: criminals, bad… — Tony Dokoupil Copy Share Image
Most crimes are sanctioned in some form or other when they take grand names. — Ouida Copy Share Image
Great things are accomplished by men who are not conscious of the impotence of man. Such insensitiveness is precious. But we must… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
“The idea that humiliation is some capital crime of the spirit is a fiction. The sentences we hand down for losing control… — John Hockenberry Copy Share Image
Crime is only the retail department of what, in wholesale, we call penal law. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
In the end I worked out an anarchistic theory that all government is evil, that the punishment always does more harm than… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Communism, my friend, is more than Marxism, just as Catholicism is more than the Roman Curia. There is a mystique as well… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“There's an old saying," Buck said. "A hundred things can go wrong in a holdup, and if you can think of fifty… — James Carlos Blake Copy Share Image
Wherever there's a prison, for the most part, especially where there's Black people, it's overcrowded. I don't know who really gets out. — Terry McMillan Copy Share Image
Head Start graduates are more likely to graduate from high school and less likely to need special education, repeat a grade, or… — Joe Baca Copy Share Image
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
The difference between political terror and ordinary crime becomes clear during the change of regimes, in which former terrorists become well-regarded representatives… — Jurgen Habermas Copy Share Image
Apartheid is a crime against humanity. Israel has deprived millions of Palestinians of their liberty and property. It has perpetuated a system… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
We can't just rail against crime. We must speak of the root problems - devastating family breakup, an insidious culture of violence… — Frank Wolf Copy Share Image
As witnesses not of our intentions but of our conduct, we can be true or false, and the hypocrite's crime is that… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Violence wounds the body and it wounds the soul. Of the predator. Of the prey. Of the mourners. Of collective humanity. It… — Kathy Reichs Copy Share Image
The deviant that does not observe the trivial uses of the language is a poet, a deviant who violates the banal customs… — William C. Brown Copy Share Image
It's a thing of violence, to whom death would be a merciful release. — Edward T. Lowe, Jr Copy Share Image
“...victims of violent crime are not always believed... [referring to victim testimony at serial killer and pedophile Marc Detroux's trial]” — Natascha Kampusch Copy Share Image
There is no crime more infamous than the violation of truth. It is apparent that men can be social beings no longer… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Remorse is the punishment of crime; repentance, its expiation. The former appertains to a tormented conscience; the latter to a soul changed… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
In the face of this approaching disaster, it behooves men and women not yet overcome by war madness to raise their voice… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“Shouldn't it be atheists, believing they are not being watched, who commit virtually all the crimes and fill up all the prisons,… — Guy P. Harrison Copy Share Image