Crime takes root when household budgets are unable to address the conditions that can lead to despair and violence, and government services… — Eric Adams Copy Share Image
Crime fiction makes money. It may be harder for writers to get published, but crime is doing better than most of what… — Linwood Barclay Copy Share Image
There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Actual life was chaos, but there was something terribly logical in the imagination. It was the imagination that set remorse to dog… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Crime, carefully planned and executed, is demonstrably the royal high road to pecuniary success in the United States. — Ferdinand Lundberg Copy Share Image
“It's time to end the brain drain and move to brain gain. It's time for a great mind of Nigeria to return… — Deji Olukotun Copy Share Image
Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind. It is the deed that… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
If mankind had always been logical and wise, history would not be a long chronicle of folly and crime. — James G. Frazer Copy Share Image
The fool's crime is the crime that is found out and the wise man's crime is the crime that is not found… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
Had we but world enough, and time, this coyness, lady, were no crime. — Andrew Marvell Copy Share Image
“For some, guilt is a stronger prison than love or happiness.” — Death-T.A. Chase Pestilence Copy Share Image
War is a lie. War is a racket. War is hell. War is waste. War is a crime. War is terrorism. War… — Coleen Rowley Copy Share Image
If in doubt, do not pain. Inflict as little pain as possible. Look for alternatives to punishments, not only alternative punishments — Howard Zehr Copy Share Image
All attempts at law, all religion, all ethical norms might be nothing more than attempts by the weak to restrain the strong.… — George Zebrowski Copy Share Image
Yes that's true but the house wasn't a home. Like what you..you know, what you go to a home to each night.… — John Wayne Gacy Copy Share Image
People always think about what prison is. What prison really is - it's not a physical challenge, it's mental. — Hill Harper Copy Share Image
A handgun ban is not realistically enforceable. Confiscating guns would require house-to-house searches and alienate the very individuals whose compliance is essential… — Don Kates Copy Share Image
Imposition of the death penalty is arbitrary and capricious. Decision of who will live and who will die for his crime turns… — Gerald Heaney Copy Share Image
The public has no power. The government knows I'm not a criminal. The parole board knows I'm not a criminal. The judge… — Jack Kevorkian Copy Share Image
It becomes more necessary to see the truth as it is if you realise that the only vehicle for change are these… — Steven Biko Copy Share Image
What else do we need to know about the political establishment than that it refuses to discuss the crimes that terrify Americans… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
We're living in times where men commit crimes and crime don't have a face. — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
My approach to the story... is if you can get into a criminal's mind and understand how it works and understand how… — Chris Hansen Copy Share Image
“Assigning degrees of blame to betrayal is a difficult project, much like deciding which of two murderers has the more wicked heart.… — Galt Niederhoffer Copy Share Image
In a crime story, the details become tremendously important - where the staircase was in relation to the bed, for example. — Bill James Copy Share Image
Since the state must necessarily provide subsistence for the criminal poor while undergoing punishment, not to do the same for the poor… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Crime stories are, as you know, one of the most popular forms of entertainment that exist. If you then try to have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Racism is a moral catastrophe, most graphically seen in the prison industrial complex and targeted police surveillance in black and brown ghettos… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Violence, whether spiritual or physical, is a quest for identity and the meaningful. The less identity, the more violence. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
“When the meat platter was passed to me, I didn't even know what the meat was; usually, you couldn't tell, anyway-but it… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Politics deals with externals: borders, wealth, crimes. Authentic forgiveness deals with the evil in a persons heart, something for which politics has… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People write fiction in their minds all the time - every time we read a 'human interest' news story, or a true… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
Whoever imposes severe punishment becomes repulsive to the people; while he who awards mild punishment becomes contemptible. But whoever imposes punishment as… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
