“When God wants to punish us, he gives us just ourselves to care for.” — Jonathan Odell Copy Share Image
“The witch-hunt narrative is a really popular story that goes like this: Lots of people were falsely convicted of child sexual abuse… — Ross Cheit Copy Share Image
If you ask people if they enjoy crime novels, they'll say, 'Oh, my guilty pleasure is...' then name a really brilliant crime… — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
“The world itself is but a large prison, out of which some are daily led to execution.” — Sir Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
“I can’t sleep if there’s murderers on the loose!” cried another guest. “Amen, brother!” said another person. “If a crime has been… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
“To the extent that the threats against which a given government protects its citizens are imaginary or are consequences of its own… — Charles Tilly Copy Share Image
The fancies that take their monstrous birth from the spinelessness and boredom of usurped wealth bring in their wake every defect ...… — Jean Lorrain Copy Share Image
People are kept in line in society because they fear punishment. The assumption that underlies this mentality is that a human being… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The State claims and exercises the monopoly of crime. It forbids private murder, but itself organizes murder on a colossal scale. It… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
There are hundreds of prisons - sexual, political, cultural. But being a prisoner also gives you impetus. — Gerald Stern Copy Share Image
If Robert Mueller is gonna return after Russian's influence investigation and say, "We looked at everything, and, I'm sorry, there's just nothing… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“Man is born violent but is kept in check by the people around him. If he nevertheless manages to throw off his… — Ernst Jünger Copy Share Image
And maybe that’s was her biggest crime of all. Making him fall in love with her. — Maya Banks Copy Share Image
Five years of Prohibition have had, at least, this one benign effect: they have completely disposed of all the favorite arguments of… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The thing that happens is that politicians run on tough-on-crime rhetoric. You appeal to the public and say, 'Let's put more money… — Eugene Jarecki Copy Share Image
Delaying and withholding tactics, red herrings, partial and doubtful outcomes are stock in trade for fiction writers, especially crime writers. — Garry Disher Copy Share Image
“As I believe I have said, everyone in prison is an innocent man. Oh, they read the scripture the way those holy… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
It makes that a virtue which is not a virtue, and that a crime which is not a crime. Religion consists in… — Henry M. Field Copy Share Image
Here in Britain, black people are disproportionately targeted, arrested and imprisoned for drug offences, while organised and violent crime are granted a… — Owen Jones Copy Share Image
Betrayal was the greatest of all crimes, for it took all that was human within a person and made it a thing… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
Society does not go down because of the activities of criminals, But because of the inactivities of the good people. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
