If you wish to discover the guilty person, first find out to whom the crime might be useful. — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
Sometimes it seems like we're living in a prison & the crime is how much we hate ourselves. — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
I was always obsessed with crime, crime shows, anything to do with unsolved cold cases. — India Eisley Copy Share Image
“Violence begets violence, and if I want to be a cog in that wheel, I have to accept when it stops on… — Mindy McGinnis Copy Share Image
Life is the jailer of the soul in this filthy prison, and its only deliverer is death. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Penalties serve to deter those who are not inclined to commit any crimes. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
Perjury is the basest and meanest and most cowardly of crimes. What can it do? Perjury can change the common air that… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
On the murder of New York deli owner Abe Lebewohl: It's almost like wiping out Carnegie Hall. A sandwich to a Jew… — Jackie Mason Copy Share Image
We won't sit idly by when a crime is committed in the real world. So why should we when it happens in… — Max Baucus Copy Share Image
If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking...… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
“Violence is a tool. It is meant to shock. To change. Instead, they normalize and celebrate it. And create a culture of… — Pierce Brown Copy Share Image
Cops and robbers resemble each other, so there's not a lot to learn in terms of learning the logistics of committing the… — Andre Braugher Copy Share Image
I've always hated criminals and crime. Life is hard enough without someone walking into your life on purpose and making it worse. — Pauley Perrette Copy Share Image
Penology...has become torture and foolishness, a waste of money and a cause of crime...a blotting out of sight and heightening of social… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
Before Katrina, you didn't see criticism of the Bush administration in the media. Here they are, stealing elections, enacting illegal wars, huge… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
“There was noise in the corridor outside Alice’s office; and though it was nothing of concern, they separated. Roger stood, fingers tucked… — Andrew Barrett Copy Share Image
When you're from New York, people take a second look at you. In Virginia, the other players always asked about the fast… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
There is all the difference in the world between the criminal's avoiding the public eye and the civil disobedience's taking the law… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
How do we know when someone like Hasan is going to make his move and do we know he's an Islamist until… — Chris Matthews Copy Share Image
How come life in prison doesn't mean life? Until it does, we're not ready to do away with the death penalty. Stop… — Jesse Ventura Copy Share Image
In the face of this approaching disaster, it behooves men and women not yet overcome by war madness to raise their voice… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
They who once engage in iniquitous designs miserably deceive themselves when they think that they will go so far and no farther;… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
The much greater crimes of the Soviet Gulags occurred over decades and cost millions of lives. — Jean-Marie Le Pen Copy Share Image
“Put a petty criminal in maximum security prison and he'll come out knowing how to rape and pillage.” — Michelle Hodkin Copy Share Image
The object of punishment is, prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good. — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
That's what prison did for me, it isolated me, you know, it polished me up like a stone. — Jayson Williams Copy Share Image
“Paoletta turned to him with a dark face. “You’d better watch out, Chase. He’s passed over to the evil side.” — Stefania Mattana Copy Share Image
I would like to say prison life at its very best and worst infinitely sucks. — Leonard Peltier Copy Share Image
Rules are for children. This is war, and in war the only crime is to lose. — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
He told us he was going to take crime out of the streets. He did. He took it into the damn White… — Ralph Abernathy Copy Share Image
Mercy is not what every criminal is entitled to. What he is entitled to is justice. — Lord Hailsham Copy Share Image
Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
