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
Animal experimentation is the blackest of all the black crimes that a man is at present committing... We should be able to… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
States have invested themselves with the right to legitimise violence - so who gets criminalised and delegitimised? Only - or well that's… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
She was unequal to anyone's wistfulness. She had made too little of her life. Its loneliness shamed her like a crime. — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told. Men die nightly in their beds, wringing the hands of… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
In a well governed state, there are few punishments, not because there are many pardons, but because criminals are rare; it is… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Our emphasis here is based not only on the growing seriousness of drug-related crimes, but also on the belief that relieving our… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
“Do we really mean it when we say ‘in sickness and in health, for richer or for poorer, until death do us… — Deirdre-Elizabeth Parker Copy Share Image
But in my district I have heard from law enforcement officials and across the State of Florida about how much this JAG… — Cliff Stearns Copy Share Image
just as violence is the last refuge of the inarticulate, so it is also the first resort of the incompetent, the easy… — Judith Crist Copy Share Image