My London constituency in Hackney has one of the highest levels of gun crime in the country. But the problem is no… — Diane Abbott Copy Share Image
“You had to be free in your heart. Guilt, fear, anger—they were all their own kinds of prison. You could be out… — Ronald Cotton Copy Share Image
By the age of 24, I found myself convicted in prison in Egypt, being blacklisted from three countries in the world for… — Maajid Nawaz Copy Share Image
"Should I comfort those who do not mourn?" Some preachers are too quick and too willing to hand out pardons to sinners… — John William Fletcher Copy Share Image
Drug offenses ... may be regarded as the prototypes of non-victim crimes today. The private nature of the sale and use of… — John Kaplan Copy Share Image
The law has been perverted, and the powers of the state have become perverted along with it. The law has not only… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
The British were doing crime stories first, but the British thing is a very different thing. There, the stories are about restoring… — Donald E. Westlake Copy Share Image
The allegory of Adam and Eve eating of the tree of evil, and entailing upon their posterity the wrath of God and… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
“Jimmy Sadd is the most evil man I’ve ever known. I mean really evil. I’m not talking about tough, or cruel –… — Steen Langstrup Copy Share Image
I think when people accuse you of a crime, you have every reason to go after them pretty hard. — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
What is a war criminal? Was not war itself a crime against God and humanity, and, therefore, were not all those who… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Bad as he is, the Devil may be abus’d, Be falsly charg’d, and causelesly accus’d, When Men, unwilling to be blam’d alone,… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
My anti-authoritarian instincts let me directly to criminal defense work. — Lynne Stewart Copy Share Image
All laws for the purpose of making man worship God, are born of the same spirit that kindled the fires of the… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The Law waits for you to stumble on a mode of being, a soul different from the FDA-approved purple-stamped standard dead meat… — Hakim Bey 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
“A life of hardship and personal suffering is unavoidable. A person must endure many humiliations of the mind and body, and expect… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
We live in a world of communication - everyone gets information about everyone else. There is universal comparison and you don't just… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
“She didn't realize she was in a prison until she collided with the bars.” — Joyce Rachelle Copy Share Image
“They create goods to grant us a semblance of liberty. If violence is the Gold sport, manipulation is their art form.” — Pierce Brown 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
“She was afraid of not being able to pull herself out of the dream world, never waking up, never knowing what really… — B. Barmanbek Copy Share Image
The convoluted wording of legalisms grew up around the necessity to hide from ourselves the violence we do to each other. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
We are all the foolishness and all the crimes we did. We're also all the kindnesses we did. I hate to think… — Hugh Leonard Copy Share Image
The typical prisoner has numerous brushes with the law before finally being sent behind bars. Each year thousands of cautions are issued… — Chris Grayling Copy Share Image
Sociologists have frequently observed that governments use punishment primarily as a tool of social control, and thus the extent or severity of… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“The struggle doesn't last long; it's too unequal. Their momentary surprise overcome, they close in on him. The well-directed slice of a… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
A criminal trial is like a Russian novel: it starts with exasperating slowness as the characters are introduced to a jury, then… — Clifford Irving Copy Share Image
That's why I love crime novels so much: When I write a crime novel, the conflict is built in. — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
What is this thing we call government? Is it anything but organized violence? The law orders you to obey, and if you… — Alexander Berkman Copy Share Image
My only crime was being a man and living in the world of men, and you don't have to do special penance… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
On the 60 days he spent in prison after being caught with marijuana. — Robert Mitchum Copy Share Image
No one is punished for free speech in Cuba. If free and inconvenient thoughts were a crime in our country, I would… — Mariela Castro Copy Share Image
“The announced function of the police, “to protect and serve the people,” becomes the grotesque caricature of protecting and preserving the interests… — Joy James Copy Share Image
When a filmmaker does not make films, it is as if he is jailed. Even when he is freed from the small… — Jafar Panahi Copy Share Image
“An idiot will take punishment without gaining knowledge but the. Wise will improve himself through punishment.” — Larry Dotson Copy Share Image
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