Most crime novels offer a curious kind of escape, to places that jag the nerves and worry the mind. Their rides of… — Susie Dent Copy Share Image
American special relationships with Israel and Saudi Arabia blind us to their dreadful encroachments on human rights, as well as confer impunity… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
I think it's common sense to say that the longer away from a crime it gets prosecuted, the less deterrent effect there… — Jed S. Rakoff Copy Share Image
It is society's tolerance of violence in society that's probably responsible for violent behavior more than any motion picture or television show — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What will drive people if they don't have money or reward? The reward is the end of war, the end of poverty,… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
[People] earn extra money [in prison] selling contraband, dope, and things of that sort to the inmates, and so that really it's… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Riches, perhaps, do not so often produce crimes as incite accusers. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Loyalty it is a pestilential thing in crime. Again and again it obscures the truth — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Exacerbating the problem of mass incarceration is that, even after someone is released from prison, the stigma of a misdemeanor or felony… — Stan Van Gundy Copy Share Image
I see no light behind that terrible curtain. I do not think one religion better than another and I think the Christian… — Eliza Lynn Linton Copy Share Image
I think we make our own hell down here during our life times- the penalty for not being true; the punishment for… — Heather Nova Copy Share Image
“I get it. I haven't seen much of the real world yet. But let's say I do get out there... and it… — Naoyuki Ochiai Copy Share Image
Those in blue suits who use thinly veiled race symbols -- when they say welfare and crime and three strikes and anti-… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
Life isn't black and white, so don't hate the criminal, hate the crime. — Aly Johnson Copy Share Image
Wit implies hatred or contempt of folly and crime, produces its effects by brisk shocks of surprise, uses the whip of scorpions… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
In many Muslim countries, witchcraft is not only on the books as a crime, but is commonly prosecuted. In 2009, for example,… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
I've got no dark secrets, I wasn't beaten up, my parents were kind to me and there was a low crime rate… — Will Ferrell Copy Share Image
War crimes will be prosecuted. War criminals will be punished. And it will be no defense to say, 'I was just following… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
What really drives the battle against law enforcement and punishment is not a commitment to treatment, but the widely held view that,… — John P. Walters Copy Share Image
To go to prison because of your convictions and be prepared to suffer for what you believe in, is something worthwhile. It… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Because you're a crime writer you're asked to have a point of view on a lot of things, and I'm uncomfortable having… — Asa Larsson Copy Share Image
Violence [in Palestina] is a symptom; the occupation is the disease - a mortal disease for everybody concerned, the occupied and the… — Uri Avnery Copy Share Image
“She had signed her own death-warrant. He kept telling himself over and over that he was not to blame, she had brought… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
Some people do good to undo the crimes they have done and some do crimes to do good because in the end… — Amit Abraham Copy Share Image
The population becomes the internal enemy. Any sign of life, of protest, or even mere doubt, is a dangerous challenge from the… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
It's a phony issue. To pretend the death penalty is going to end crime in the United States is to fool people,… — Rudy Giuliani Copy Share Image
“Every student doffed his hat when the president approached, and bowed as he passed, or faced his wrath. Freshmen, meanwhile, acted as… — Alexander Rose Copy Share Image
Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The whole point of anti-Semitism has been to create a vulnerable buffer group that can be bribed with some privileges into managing… — Aurora Levins Morales Copy Share Image
“When now we turn and look five miles above, there on the edge of town are five houses of prostitutes,—two of blacks… — W.E.B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Securities fraud generally and insider trading in particular should be eminently deterrable crimes. — Preet Bharara Copy Share Image
“The Sunday morning choir raised their voices to fever pitch with another gospel tune. Slurring voices filled with thick drawls of the… — Jaime Allison Parker Copy Share Image