I want to separate sin from crime. You may have to ask forgiveness for your sins from God, but not from the… — Pierre Trudeau Copy Share Image
This country would be a better place to live in if all the resources we currently put toward criminalizing marijuana were instead… — Gary Johnson Copy Share Image
“Stomach full of jitters, little beasts that were second cousins to guacamolians—little green monsters that wreaked havoc in your stomach.” — William Kely McClung Copy Share Image
Prison makes an interesting context for so many different characters to come together. You get to see what lines get drawn between… — Yael Stone Copy Share Image
Violence is a cleansing force. It frees the native from his inferiority complex and from his despair and inaction; it makes him… — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that, unsuspected, ripens with the flower of the pleasure that… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A man who lives with nature is used to violence and is companionable with death. There is more violence in an English… — P. D. James Copy Share Image
Once crime was as solitary as a cry of protest; now it is as universal as science. Yesterday it was put on… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
As far as U.S. intelligence knows, Iran is developing nuclear capacities, but they don't know if they are trying to develop nuclear… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I appreciate our government's determination to investigate the circumstances surrounding the death of the Bytyqi brothers, which Serbia's Interior Minister has rightly… — John McCain Copy Share Image
“You seem to have quite a taste for discussing these horrible subjects," she said, rather scornfully; "you ought to have been a… — Mary Elizabeth Braddon Copy Share Image
I am a writer, a professional journalist with serious credentials in Crime, Craziness, and Politics. I have mingled with dangerous criminals and… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“I saw her sign the register, but her name isn't on it any more. The bellboy says he never saw her. Now… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
There is something about big cities that turns me on, and for whatever mysterious reason, places like New York and Paris inspire… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
What is a war criminal? Was not war itself a crime against God and humanity, and, therefore, were not all those who… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“But how did I murder her? Is that how men do murders? Do men go to commit a murder as I went… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
For every dollar spent on early child development you save $7 over the life course because children with better early child development… — Michael Marmot Copy Share Image
It is always possible that occasional individuals may have overstepped the law and humanity in treatment of criminals and those charged with… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
Can you ever “solve” poverty? Can you ever “solve” crime? Can you ever “solve” disease, unemployment, war, or any other societal herpes?… — Max Brooks Copy Share Image
I certainly didn't emerge from prison regretting anything I ever wrote, nor did I feel remorse for my crime in the least. — Jim Goad Copy Share Image
Fighting crime requires a partnership between the police and the community. And we all know that this partnership has been tested in… — Rahm Emanuel Copy Share Image
Doth not a man die even in his birth? The breaking of prison is death, and what is our birth, but a… — John Donne Copy Share Image
Each day the worst of our faults, our deficiencies, our crimes, the truth of our lives, is stifled under a triple layer… — Jean Giraudoux Copy Share Image
Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies. — Emily Bronte Copy Share Image
The Mafia and crime bosses of this world are amateurs compared to this syndicate, ruled by the prince of darkness and the… — Adrian Rogers Copy Share Image
The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
A good writer can set a thriller anywhere and make it convincing: the trick is to evoke the setting in such a… — Garry Disher Copy Share Image
Retributive justice is one that says clobber him or clobber her because they clobbered me. So it emphasizes punishment. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
If Saddam Hussein committed crimes such as political oppression against the Iraqi people, it should be resolved legally in a fair and… — Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono Copy Share Image
The United States government does not authorise or condone torture of detainees. Torture, and conspiracy to commit torture, are crimes under US… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
The victim of mind-manipulati on does not know that he is a victim. To him, the walls of his prison are invisible,… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Why is thinking about crime or imagining crime so goddamn central to pop culture? It doesn't matter whether it's American TV or… — Elliott Colla Copy Share Image
I know of no crime that has not been defended by the church, in one form or other. The church is not… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“After all of your punishments, why do you still think about love? Love was never good to you and never will be.… — Natavia Copy Share Image
He who allows himself to be arrested for a crime he did not commit will be expelled from the party, but if… — Aminu Kano Copy Share Image
It is a man's own dishonesty, his crimes, his wickedness, and boldness, that takes away from him soundness of mind; these are… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
It is hardly fair to accuse us of ignorance when it was made a crime under the former order of things to… — George H. White Copy Share Image
For the Republican Convention, I think of Trump's speech and sort of the darkness, the fear of crime, the need for a… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
“Hostile to the past, impatient of the present, and cheated of the future, we were much like those whom men's justice, or… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
If you knowingly and willingly embark on criminal behaviour, the consequences of that should be... that you lose some of your benefits… — Iain Duncan Smith Copy Share Image
