If one does not like the crime, cruelty, injustice and violence of this society, he CAN do something about it. — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
Don't get me wrong - I'll put $25 on the ground and then if you pick it up and we have sex… — Eugene Mirman Copy Share Image
I've grown up around that sort of petty crime, getting into trouble and trying to get out of it. What's funny is… — Michelle Keegan Copy Share Image
There are three kinds of violence: one, through our deeds; two, through our words; and three, through our thoughts. …The root of… — Eknath Easwaran Copy Share Image
If you don't educate people well, then you're going to have a lot of violent, angry young men and women. You can… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“The worst evil is not to commit crimes, but to fail to do the good one might have done.” — Leon Bloy Copy Share Image
“Going into any prison is deeply confusing if you know anything about the racial demographics of America. The extreme overrepresentation of people… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
In the name of a greater civilization, we curse those who for the sake of their ambitious dreams, brought about the massacre… — Amadeo Bordiga Copy Share Image
Our system of mass incarceration is better understood as a system of racial and social control than a system of crime prevention… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Imprisoning convicted criminals for longer and longer periods sounds like an appealing and commonsense proposal to many people. After all, when lawbreakers… — Charlie Kirk Copy Share Image
I understand people who believe that without violence they will not achieve anything at all. — Uri Avnery Copy Share Image
The part of London where I grew up has the highest crime rates in the country. — Leona Lewis Copy Share Image
“Prison is a wound we keep tucked in those parts of the country that can’t afford to turn it away, who need… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped, but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“The biggest prison in the universe is caring about what other people think of you.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
The Chicago Way is a wonderful first novel. Michael Harvey has studied the masters and put his own unique touch on the… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
The function of the prosecutor under the federal Constitution is not to tack as many skins of victims as possible against the… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
The violence in society, I'm afraid, is perpetrated by the people at the top. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“of the nearly 7.3 million people currently under correctional control, only 1.6 million are in prison.27 This caste system extends far beyond… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Nothing is so dangerous as that of violence employed by well-meaning people for beneficial objects. — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“These are people who take up mass violence as a personal assertion or political statement to compensate for their own hopelessness, pathos,… — John E. Douglas Copy Share Image
When poor and ordinary Americans who commit crimes are prosecuted and imprisoned, that is Justice. When the same thing is done to… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
[N]o clear steps have actually been taken to apprehend and prosecute those known to have been in command of the camp or… — Ben Cardin Copy Share Image
Let's face it: the War on Drugs was a disaster. It may be well intentioned... but it sent millions of kids to… — John Hickenlooper Copy Share Image
I think the International Criminal Court could be a threat to American security interests, because the prosecutor of the court has enormous… — John Bolton Copy Share Image
Is it, in Heav'n, a crime to love too well? To bear too tender or too firm a heart, To act a… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
The sin and the shame and the sorrow, The crime and the want and the woe That are born there in your… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
I have been an accomplice to the murders of untold numbers of human beings. I am admitting this only because I have… — Joe Eszterhas Copy Share Image
I don't know much about international policing and I would love to learn more. Especially in this day and age when the… — Lisa Gardner Copy Share Image
In the first batch of readers, back in the '60s and '70s, the criminal class was still literate, so I would get… — Donald E. Westlake Copy Share Image
“Parents in prison don’t help with homework. They don’t help pay the bills. They don’t corral youngsters on bedtime patrol, advocate for… — Terry Marselle Copy Share Image
“And then there was her face: her white skin, her brown eyes, and her expression, so soft and beautiful; she looked as… — Natsuo Kirino Copy Share Image
Prison does strange things to men. Although its purpose is to break the free spirit of a man, in many cases it… — William Powell Copy Share Image