To abandon your shield is the basest of crimes; nor may a man thus disgraced be present at the sacred rites, or… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
The invasion of Panama, what was that? The U.S. killed, according to the Panamanians, 3,000 civilians. Maybe they're right. We don't investigate… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
For every crime there is a price, due by pain or shame; underneath every monster lies a beast that isn't tame. — Jamie Timbre Copy Share Image
When a novel is based on an actual crime, it should do much more than loosely fictionalize it. The novel must stand… — Sarah Weinman Copy Share Image
If a murder is committed privately it is considered a crime. But if it happens with the authority of the state, they… — Cyprian Copy Share Image
The newspapers of the twenty-first century will give a mere 'stick' in the back pages to accounts of crime or political controversies,… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
Numbered among our population are some 12,000,000 colored people. Under our Constitution their rights are just as sacred as those of any… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Violence against women is still treated as a lesser crime. Armed groups turn it into a weapon of choice because of near… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
There are things I take sides about, like capital punishment, which it seems to me there is only one side about: it… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
All forms of violence are quests for identity. When you live on the frontier, you have no identity. You're a nobody. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
“There is more than one way to lose your life; quickly through violence, or fettered-away and wasted around dreadful, toxic people.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“Instead we will see an increase in a sophisticated, nonviolent form of crime: the counterfeiting of credit cards and the manipulation of… — Gerard K. O'Neill Copy Share Image
There's no doubt in my mind, though, that the Iraqi people would be better off with a different leader who did not… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
“In the darkest region of the political field the condemned man represents the symmetrical, inverted figure of the king.” — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
“A lengthy term of community service working with addicts on the outside would probably have driven the same truth home and been… — Piper Kerman Copy Share Image
Fantasy works inwards upon its author, blurring the boundary between the visioned and the actual, and associating itself ever moreclosely with the… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“Rather than shaming and condemning an already deeply stigmatized group, we, collectively, can embrace them – not necessarily their behavior, but them… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison. — Craig L. Thomas Copy Share Image
What has happened here [aftermath of 9/11] is not war in its traditional sense. This is clearly a crime against humanity. War… — Benjamin B. Ferencz Copy Share Image
No matter how one approaches the figures, one is forced to the rather startling conclusion that the use of firearms in crime… — Colin Greenwood Copy Share Image
People believe that forensics these days is the answer to everything and because we believe so ardently that forensics can lead us… — Adrian Dunbar Copy Share Image
“retribution noun ret·ri·bu·tion \ˌre-trə-ˈbyü-shən\ Punishment inflicted on someone as vengeance for a wrong or criminal act. ” — Sloane Kennedy Copy Share Image
Prosecutors say my father was the biggest crime boss in the nation... If you really want to know what John Gotti was… — Victoria Gotti Copy Share Image
“Three months of prison and torture! It’s a terrible ordeal! But for others, it lasts ten years, twenty years! It kills some!”… — Phakyab RINPOCHE Copy Share Image
Most of the problems that plague our society - addiction, overeating, crime, domestic violence, prejudice, debt, unwanted pregnancy, educational failure, underperformance at… — Roy Baumeister Copy Share Image
I spent my life behind bars, and what people don't know is getting out of prison is really nerve-racking - you're not… — Richard Cabral Copy Share Image
No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, there can never be good for the bee which is bad for… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
What kind of expression is this - "punishing Israel"? Are we a vassal state of yours? Are we a banana republic? Are… — Menachem Begin Copy Share Image
“I [Lorna Craig] would say that teaching a girl that her salvation depends on her having sexual relations with a married man… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
A friend exaggerates a man's virtues; an enemy inflames his crimes. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
We're constantly getting these messages to mind our own business and look the other way if we want to be well liked,… — Kelly Cutrone 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
Look at New York and the number of crimes out there. Every big city has crime. Bombay is the biggest city of… — Raj Thackeray Copy Share Image