Each day the worst of our faults, our deficiencies, our crimes, the truth of our lives, is stifled under a triple layer… — Jean Giraudoux Copy Share Image
For the past seven years we have been cracking down on crime in Missouri, passing tougher laws for drug crimes and sex… — Mel Carnahan Copy Share Image
There is a tendency among many shallow thinkers of our day to teach that every human act is a reflex, over which… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
The increasing crimes in Chennai have become a cause for concern. Chain snatching has become a routine affair. — Tamilisai Soundararajan Copy Share Image
Surely a tired woman on her way to work at six in the morning on a subway deserves the right to get… — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
My city is the only jungle made out of concrete, all types of animals live behind these streets. — G-Fwea D Copy Share Image
If punishment reaches not the mind and makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender. — John Locke Copy Share Image
Nothing can justify crimes such as those of September 11, but we can think of the United States as an innocent victim… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In court, judges tell people that their conviction carries a sentence of years, or probation. The truth is far more terrible. People… — James Forman, Jr Copy Share Image
Prison is an important part of life. We can't have violent people running around in the streets. (3 out of 4 federal… — Howard Dean Copy Share Image
“There is not the slightest hope that the authorities who, for a number of years, have permitted the violation of the law,… — Various Copy Share Image
“If you want to kill serious crime, you have to kill serious criminals!” — Andrew Barrett Copy Share Image
“The murder that is depicted as a horrible crime is repeated in cold blood, remorselessly.” — Cesare Beccaria Copy Share Image
I really did grow up in a world where we were taught that crime doesn't pay and we stood up when the… — Stanley R. Jaffe Copy Share Image
I am the punishment of God. If you have not committed sins then God wouldn't have sent me. — Genghis Khan Copy Share Image
Any criminal act against any individual or institution in India is to be condemned. The attackers must be strongly punished as per… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
Penalties serve to deter those who are not inclined to commit any crimes. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
The worst crimes are not committed by evil degenerates, but by decent and intelligent people taking 'pragmatic' decisions. — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
The business of popularizing crime is how we expose the faults in our justice system. It's how we expose police misconduct. — Bill James Copy Share Image
“All that interior violence and complication to defend themselves from the very tenderness.” — Susana Fortes Copy Share Image
The Christians say, that among the ancient Jews, if you committed a crime you had to kill a sheep. Now they say… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
And is it not obvious that, just as it is a crime to disturb the peace when truth reigns, it is also… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
We refuse to lie here in dishonor! We are not criminals, but Irishmen! This is the crime of which we stand accused. — Bobby Sands Copy Share Image
Aborting my baby is the most serious of the many maternal crimes I tally in my head when I am at my… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
If a war be undertaken...before the resources of peace have been tried and proved vain to secure it, that war has no… — Charles Eliot Norton Copy Share Image
It is very seldom that any one is in prison for an ordinary crime unless early in life he entered a path… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
The US cannot be brought to the World Court for major crimes, for example the supreme international crime, invasion, or violation of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I wonder if those experts who tell us that our sexual appetite is the strongest know what real thirst feels like; I… — Dervla Murphy Copy Share Image
In the housing projects, people talked of ways to reduce crime, relieve overcrowding, and they were good ideas that we plan to… — Jane Byrne Copy Share Image
I grew up reading crime fiction mysteries, true crime - a lot of true crime - and it is traditionally a male… — Megan Abbott Copy Share Image
The great gift of 'Incarceration Nations' is that, by introducing a wide range of approaches to crime, punishment, and questions of justice… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Stop going to the zoos! Don't take your children to the zoos! No creature ever deserves captivity without any crime! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
“She was thirty-two, but drew blank on various periods of her life. In her own peculiar turn of phrase, they were like… — Fuminori Nakamura Copy Share Image
And though the newspapers called the shooting the Crime of the Century, Goldman knew it was only 1906 and there were ninety-four… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
