No government which governs by the use of force can survive except by force. There is no going back because force begets… — Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo Copy Share Image
To seek truth and to utter what one believes to be true can never be a crime. No one must be forced… — Michael Servetus Copy Share Image
Restoring a person's ability to achieve success when they leave the prison walls promotes public safety, builds our economy and, most importantly,… — Sally Yates Copy Share Image
The Big Sleep' would have been a more effective study of nightmarish existence had the detective been more complicated and had more… — Manny Farber 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
“The tradition that refuses to entertain doubt, or remains impervious to new thoughts and ideas, becomes a prison rather than a sustaining… — Manju Kapur Copy Share Image
I don't think there would be many jokes, if there weren't constant frustration and fear and so forth. It's a response to… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I wonder if it's ethical to watch a man with binoculars and a long-focus lens? D'ya suppose it's ethical even if you… — John Michael Hayes Copy Share Image
Through TV and moving pictures a child may see more violence in thirty minutes than the average adult experiences in a lifetime.… — Fredric Wertham Copy Share Image
The good news from the U.S. military survey of focus groups is that Iraqis do accept the Nuremberg principles. They understand that… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It had long been true, and prisoners knew this better than anyone, that the poorer you were the more likely you were… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Governments have tried to stop crime through punishment throughout the ages, but crime continued in the past punishment remains. Crime can only… — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Copy Share Image
“Rape is a crime against sleep and memory; it's after image imprints itself like an irreversible negative from the camera obscure of… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
Homicide detective tryin to threaten me with some time, only thing I ever murdered was college ruled lines, there's a patent in… — Z-Ro Copy Share Image
Once I got interested in organized crime, and, specifically, Jewish organized crime, I got very interested in it. I have learned that,… — Zachary Lazar Copy Share Image
There is one notable thing about our Christianity: bad, bloody, merciless, money-grabbing and predatory as it is - in our country particularly,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Some crime against nature is about to be committed. I feel it in my veins. These men and boys are grocers and… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
Taking personal responsibility for every aspect of your life, OWNING IT just as it is, is a privilege not a punishment! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This woman goes into a gun shop and says, 'I want to buy a gun for my husband.' The clerk says, 'Did… — Phyllis Diller Copy Share Image
Vices are those acts by which a man harms himself or his property. Crimes are those acts by which one man harms… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
They self-inflict punishment on their own broken lives, put their faith in their possessions, in their jobs, or their wives. — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
You have to remember, that insane people can do some horrors themselves. I had committed no crime, though. I hadn't shot anybody.… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
In the end I worked out an anarchistic theory that all government is evil, that the punishment always does more harm than… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The moon is no door. It is a face in its own right, White as a knuckle and terribly upset. It drags… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
The only reason I was offered 'Punisher' was because I had made an indie film that was rated R for violence and… — Lexi Alexander Copy Share Image
Seventy percent of the fish we eat is black market, fished in violation of international laws. Our ignorance makes us unwilling partners… — Loretta Napoleoni Copy Share Image
Users of marijuana become STIMULATED as they inhale the drug and are LIKELY TO DO ANYTHING. Most crimes of violence in this… — William Randolph Hearst Copy Share Image
I just listened to that inner voice. By the way, it's always a good move to listen to that inner voice... if… — Lisa Kudrow Copy Share Image
There's a major underlying idea as you grow up that you need to just save your money and get that affordable housing… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
Clearly, we must denounce militaristic approaches to global unrest and find life-affirming ways to end repressive cycles of violence rooted in discrimination,… — Kimberle Williams Crenshaw Copy Share Image
“When you think about the period in which Agatha Christie's crime novels were written, they are actually quite edgy for the time.” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
I went into journalism to learn the craft of writing and to get close to the world I wanted to write about… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
Everyone has favorite criminals. Mine are pimps. We can all rob a bank; we can all sell drugs. Being a pimp is… — Chris Rock Copy Share Image
How our availability, our showing up, our presence, leaves us open to that violence. I think it's a question of language, as… — Claudia Rankine Copy Share Image
I would feel horrible to think I had put my name on a pistol permit and allowed someone to carry around a… — Mike Rutherford Copy Share Image
The purpose of punishment is to improve those who do the punishing--that is the final recourse of those who support punishment. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Sex should not be in the movies and should be in the home, and violence should be in the movies and not… — Lee Tamahori Copy Share Image
It is possible to imagine a society flushed with such a sense of power that it could afford to let its offenders… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Prisons are out of public sight, and most often out of mind. But the vast majority of prisoners will at some point… — David Lidington Copy Share Image
There is not a crime, there is not a dodge, there is not a trick, there is not a swindle, there is… — Joseph Pulitzer Copy Share Image
