To avoid being sexist and racist, we should assume that half the perpetrators of violent crimes are white, liberal women. — Michael Z. Williamson Copy Share Image
I spent 10 years as a marketing manager. I've found my experience in the financial world invaluable background for writing about white-collar crimes. — Sara Paretsky Copy Share Image
For there is another kind of violence, slower but just as deadly, destructive as the shot or the bomb in the night.… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
Any government that supports, protects or harbours terrorists is complicit in the murder of the innocent and equally guilty of terrorist crimes. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
I have a message for all of you. The crime and violence that today afflicts America will soon - and I mean… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
I come from New York originally, but Californians have been wonderful about animals. These animals are so nice and so good and… — Dick Van Patten Copy Share Image
“Child abuse, domestic violence, sexual assault, hate crimes, war crimes, genocide, and all other forms of interpersonal violence flourish in a culture… — Michelle Stevens Copy Share Image
To make punishments efficacious, two things are necessary. They must never be disproportioned to the offence, and they must be certain. — William Gilmore Simms Copy Share Image
In countries with a properly functioning legal system, the mob continues to exist, but it is rarely called upon to mete out… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
We've got the emPHAsis on the wrong sylLAble when it comes to crime in this country. The FBI says burglary and robbery… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
The crime of taxation is not in the taking it, it's in the way that it's spent. — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
In rural areas the majority of the victims of violent crime know their assailants (indeed, are probably married to them); in cities,… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
The function of violence is to obtain reform by external means, the function of passive resistance, that is, soul-force, is to obtain… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
There is no crime in the cynical American calendar more humiliating than to be a sucker. — Max Lerner Copy Share Image
“Death and injury caused by armed violence is one of the most shameful epidemics of our age.” — WIDAD AKRAWI Copy Share Image
When you go to your local police officer, your police chief in the town you live in, big or small, he will… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
Our findings with reference to organized crime was that organized crime as an entity didn't participate in the assassination of the president.… — Louis Stokes Copy Share Image
“The Special Operations Network was instigated to handle policing duties considered either too unusual or too specialized to be tackled by the… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
Deep thinkers who look everywhere for the mysterious causes of poverty, ignorance, crime and war need look no further than their own… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
I was in prison for a charge in Texas, murder one. Back in the '70s in Texas, I was there. I heard… — Duane Chapman Copy Share Image
I'm for capital punishment. You've got to execute people. How else are they going to learn? — Mort Sahl Copy Share Image
Even in the most peaceful communities, an appetite for violence shows up in dreams, fantasies, sports, play, literature, movies and television. And,… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
“Violence is a tool. It is meant to shock. To change. Instead, they normalize and celebrate it. And create a culture of… — Pierce Brown Copy Share Image
violence is an evil thing, but when the guns are all in the hands of the men without respect for human rights,… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
“Murderers can use multiple sites from the moment they capture their victims. However, the main scene is where death occurs. It’s usually… — Gary Lequipe Copy Share Image
Why then should money be blamed for all the dirt and crimes it causes? For is love less filthy -- love which… — Emile Zola Copy Share Image
“Parker looked distressed. He had confidence in Wimsey's judgment, and, in spite of his own interior certainty, he felt shaken. "My dear… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Despite [] promises, I am concerned that there has been no discernible progress in the case. Equally concerning is the fact that… — Lee Zeldin Copy Share Image
“[Stieg] was describing Sweden the way it was and the way he saw the country: the scandals, the oppression of women, the… — Eva Gabrielsson Copy Share Image
Get Carter remains among the great crime novels, a lean, muscular portrait of a man stumbling along the hard edge - toward… — James Sallis Copy Share Image
I think that it's a crime to say you are bored when time is so precious and there are so many things… — Karl Lagerfeld Copy Share Image
“Honestly, if I stay on this gruelling path, I'm going to end up as another suicide statistic.” — S.A. Tawks Copy Share Image
Every criminal leaves psychic fingerprints. And he can't wear gloves to hide them. — Helen McCloy Copy Share Image
I have friends in prison. I send them money. I send them food. They say, 'Bro, get me out of here.' There's… — Draymond Green Copy Share Image
“But as soon as a man, through lack of character, takes refuge in doctrine, as soon as crime reasons about itself, it… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Actions receive their tincture from the times, And as they change are virtues made or crimes — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
Instead, our system of "corrections" is about arm's-length revenge and retribution, all day and all night. Then its overseers wonder why people… — Piper Kerman Copy Share Image