When it comes to crime, the violent crime rate in America has been lowered during my presidency and any time in the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Mob justice is not justice. Justice sought by violence is not justice. — Daniel Cameron Copy Share Image
I respond very well to rules. If there are certain parameters it's much easier to do something really good. Especially when readers… — Denise Mina Copy Share Image
I wonder that no criminal has ever pleaded the ugliness of your city as an excuse for his crimes. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Loving, of enemies is another dogma of feigned morality, and has besides no meaning. It is incumbent on man, as a moralist,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“The people copy their rules, just as children ape their parents. Violence is a symptom of a dysfunctional system, where people have… — Helon Habila Copy Share Image
And who can suffer injury by just taxation, impartial laws and the application of the Jeffersonian doctrine of equal rights to all… — William Jennings Bryan Copy Share Image
If a juror feels that the statute involved in any criminal offence is unfair, or that it infringes upon the defendant's natural… — Harlan F. Stone Copy Share Image
We've seen a kind of Donald Trump supporter on steroids, like the hate-crime people. Those people, I don't want to see, like… — Jen Kirkman Copy Share Image
You do not know the unfathomable cowardice of humanity...servile in the face of force, pitiless in the face of weakness, implacable before… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Donald Trump is going to lower taxes, Hillary Clinton's going to raise taxes. He's going to add to our military, she's going… — Rudy Giuliani Copy Share Image
“You see, it is my passionately held belief that the right to possess property is at best a contingent one. When disparities… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
People should be allowed to document evidence of criminal wrongdoing. Where is the expectation of privacy if someone is conspiring to commit… — Linda Tripp Copy Share Image
If Hitler were alive the best punishment would be to put him out-of-town with a new musical. — Donna McKechnie Copy Share Image
“Cultural copaganda is all around us--from the CIA , starting in the 1950s funding projects like the Iowa Writers' Workshop or fronting… — Alec Karakatsanis Copy Share Image
I don't need a gf I need a partner in crime, a girl that's into what I'm into and we can get… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No I don't think that's possible. I think it...after 14 years under truth serum had I committed the crime I would have… — John Wayne Gacy Copy Share Image
I don't think we can reduce the prison population now, so many of these people are damaged goods once they've spent much… — Peter Moskos Copy Share Image
“Part of this is related to the vast apparatus created to administer the criminal-justice system; part is related to the new laws… — David Cay Johnston Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I loved Sherlock Holmes. I'm not interested in crimes. I'm interested in the mind of the detective… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
It feels like an easy sum to gauge the balance between forests and, say, the proliferating free newspapers that litter our public… — Tristram Stuart Copy Share Image
“Violence is a means of bargaining and signalling value within the marketplace.” — Alex de Waal Copy Share Image
Owning a gun in America is one way for conservative white males to demonstrate their anger at crime, liberalism, feminism, and modernity. — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
“A fish might more easily live on the apex of a rock than a man accustomed to crime live a life of… — William Beckford Copy Share Image
Punishment as punishment is not admissible unless the offender has had the freewill to select his course. — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
Horror and supernatural novels give you a lot of what you look for in a crime novel, just with a twist that… — Michael Koryta Copy Share Image
The basic idea of karma is not punishment. Karma presents the opportunity for development; to make use of opportunities that were not… — Seth Copy Share Image
We [people] all need each other. Gangs do try to fill that void - but they can't do what healthy, balanced, and… — Luis J. Rodriguez Copy Share Image
Opinion, and the just maintenance of it, shall never be a crime in my view. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We know that virtue does not matter to history, and that crimes remain unpunished; but that every error had its consequences and… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
I sincerely believe that if Bush and Cheney recognized the full humanity of other people's mothers around the world, they wouldn't commit… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
Sick is a relative concept. We're all sick. The question is, what degree of functionality do we have with respect to the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The consequences of a crime should not be out of proportion to the crime itself. — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
Really, what we want now, is not laws against crime, but a law against insanity. That is where the true evil lies. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image