I'm good with a grill. I like to make cheeseburgers - I once read in a David Goodis crime novel that you're… — Noah Baumbach Copy Share Image
True crime has long been a passion for me, but I'm also a sucker for biographies, particularly of politicians, writers, or Hollywood… — Megan Abbott Copy Share Image
Powerful states can maintain themselves only by crime, little states are virtuous only by weakness. — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
Self-reinvention is an essential trope of the American project, closely linked to another such trope: going on the lam. Both are regularly… — Luc Sante Copy Share Image
The proliferation of state concealed carry laws has evidently reduced the rate of violent street crime to a considerable extent. When the… — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
The (capital punishment) controversy passes the anarch by. For him, the linking of death and punishment is absurd. In this respect, he… — Ernst Junger Copy Share Image
Students being miseducated, criminalized and arrested through a form of penal pedagogy in prison-type schools provide a grim reminder of the degree… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
I'm not sure (whether Demetriou did anything wrong). I wouldn't have thought so ... but I'm not the ACC (Australian Crime Commission),… — James Hird Copy Share Image
Most investigators don't even know what the word means. You stop the cops from using informants and the only crimes they'd ever… — Andrew Vachss Copy Share Image
It's in my own interest - it's in everybody's interest - to have streets that are safe, children that are educated, and… — Jeffrey Skoll Copy Share Image
They [NYPD] tell you how you can act and what you can do your whole entire life. But they always stayed out… — Ralph Sarchie Copy Share Image
“Who is the greater criminal: he who robs a bank or he who founds one? (Three Penny Opera)” — Kurt Weill Copy Share Image
“At the end of the day, we are with ourselves — and this can either be the most beautiful thing or the… — Laura Chouette Copy Share Image
“Law enforcement responding with silence regarding crimes reported by the public is a form of mistreatment.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
If being awesome is a crime, I'd be serving a life sentence. — Michael Angelo De Leon Copy Share Image
Better guide the young than reclaim them when old For the voice of true wisdom is calling "To rescue the fallen is… — Joseph Malins Copy Share Image
Religion teaches you to be satisfied with nonanswers. It’s a sort of crime against childhood. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
When freedom is in jeopardy, non-co-operation may be a duty and prison may be a palace. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“It was a mild winter’s evening in ‘Japp’s Saloon and Speakeasy’, in the northwest corner of the only legal red-light area of… — Christina Engela Copy Share Image
“Perfect crime,' he said softly. 'Yes?' 'Persuade an innocent, idealistic young girl that the future of the human race depends on her… — Jane Rogers Copy Share Image
The government is responsible for the violence, as long as they don't stop it. And if we have to get violent to… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
“No one can escape slavery; we are all slaves in some regards. We are slaves to our parent's expectations. We are slaves… — Mahima Martel Copy Share Image
“You'd think old age was a criminal offense, not a destination we're all heading to.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“How imperious the homicidal madness must have become if they’re willing to pardon—no, forget!—the theft of a can of meat! True, we… — Louis-Ferdinand Céline Copy Share Image
The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
“Without the world noticing, the locusts of common, criminal violence are right now ravaging the lives and dreams of billions of our… — Gary A. Haugen Copy Share Image
Happiness lies only in that which excites, and the only thing that excites is crime. — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
As to Science, she has never sought to ally herself to civil power. She has never attempted to throw odium or inflict… — John William Draper Copy Share Image
Despite crime's omnipresence, things work in society, because biology compels it. Order eventually restores itself, by psychic equilibrium. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
It recognizes no morality but a sham morality meant for deceit, no honor even among thieves and of a thievish sort, no… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
When you realize that your freedom is being taken away from you, you're like, 'You know what, I'm not going to get… — Michael Sorrentino Copy Share Image
There are crimes of passion and crimes of logic. The boundary between them is not clearly defined. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“becoming a sort of outrage perpetrated by the stronger upon the feebler, a crime of society against the individual, a crime which… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“The pros and cons of being a criminal: Pros—are cons that haven’t been caught. Cons—are former pros that made a mistake.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Can the perpetrator of a "senseless" crime use transcendence as a defense? — Dean Cavanagh Copy Share Image