Religion is a strange, wonderful thing. More crimes have been committed in the name of righteousness than any other notion. — Tom T. Hall Copy Share Image
“Most people — however much they might deny it — had an idea of what they were getting into when they got into it.” — Donna Leon Copy Share Image
Not to our surprise, we discover that gun crime in Britain is up 10.9 percent since the disarmament of the private citizen. — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
“If you've spent more than an hour plotting a getaway route, you're either a writer or a criminal. Or maybe a cheating… — Peggy Rothschild Copy Share Image
To declare that in the administration of criminal law the end justifies the means to declare that the Government may commit crimes… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
When I was in prison, I read an article - don't be shocked when I say I was in prison. You're still… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I spent 10 years as a marketing manager. I've found my experience in the financial world invaluable background for writing about white-collar crimes. — Sara Paretsky Copy Share Image
I suppose most crime writing is urban. There's not a lot... certainly not in Australia, people don't often set books in the… — Peter Temple Copy Share Image
no study has brought out any solid evidence that the death penalty deters crime. In fact, Amnesty reports that 'the murder rate… — Antoinette Bosco Copy Share Image
When I started writing Tales of the City I was one year away from being a mental illness. It wasn't until 1975… — Armistead Maupin Copy Share Image
Even in the most peaceful communities, an appetite for violence shows up in dreams, fantasies, sports, play, literature, movies and television. And,… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
A range of studies shows there is no evidence immigrants commit more crime than native-born Americans. In fact, first generation immigrants are… — Geraldo Rivera Copy Share Image
The comics I read as a kid were all about guys in tights. But here was a guy who wore a fedora.… — Frank Miller Copy Share Image
A man's natural rights are his own, against the whole world; and any infringement of them is equally a crime, whether committed… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
When I say there is no such crime as date rape I am saying what is true. There isn't a specific legal… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
It is better for all the world, if instead of waiting to execute degenerate offspring for crime or to let them starve… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolute truth, but… — Max Lerner Copy Share Image
“ Fantômas! The sound of that name evoked the worst horrors! Fantômas! This terrorist, this über-criminal who has never shrunk from any… — Marcel Allain Copy Share Image
“Crime has no color. Crime has no type. Crime has no gender. The reason why crime doesn't end. It is being categorized… — De philosopher DJ Kyos Copy Share Image
Naming our murder weapons after victims of our crimes: Apache, Tomahawk... It's as if the Luftwaffe were to call its fighter planes… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Not everybody is strong enough to endure life without an anesthetic. Drink probably averts more gross crime than it causes. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A second way that oppressed people sometimes deal with oppression is to resort to physical violence and corroding hatred. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
You can't sort out crime unless locals have a good relationship with the police. You can't tackle health challenges unless people have… — Liz Kendall Copy Share Image
Serious crime is very, very rare, and I think all of us are interested because they are rare and unusual. If they… — Robert Rinder Copy Share Image
Violence against women and girls touches every corner of the globe and is one of the world's most pervasive human rights violations. — Nazanin Boniadi Copy Share Image
If you look at sentencing in America, African-Americans and Latinos get sentenced for the same crimes at very different rates. — Tim Kaine Copy Share Image
“She had known it was bad, call it a mother’s instinct, but she’d known this was the knock that was going to… — Andrew Barrett Copy Share Image
Guilt is feeling of some offence, some wrong doing, to hurt someone, to deceive someone but ultimate of guilt is crime to… — DrAnil Kr Sinha Copy Share Image
The greatest of all crimes are the wars that are carried on by governments, to plunder, enslave, and destroy mankind. — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
When I was growing up in Salford, I was always in trouble. It was stuff like petty crime and all sorts of… — Bez Copy Share Image
Governments commit more crimes upon persons and property and contribute more to their insecurity than all [the] criminals put together. — Josiah Warren Copy Share Image
Americans need rest, but do not know it. I believe this to be a large part of the explanation of the crime… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Violence is fomented by the imposition of singular and belligerent identities on gullible people, championed by proficient artisans of terror. — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
“He told me that if I hung up, he'd do it. He would commit suicide. He told me that if I called… — Sierra D. Waters Copy Share Image
The will to survive is not as important as the will to prevail... the answer to criminal aggression is retaliation. — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
“there isn't such a thing as a murderer who commits crimes at random. Either he removes people who stand (however insignificantly) in… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“Crime belongs exclusively to the lower orders. I don't blame them in the smallest degree. I should fancy that crime was to… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
When the penalty for a policeman's mistake is to put a criminal back out on the street, then we are hurting America;… — Gary Bauer Copy Share Image
Call me an over anxious, middle-class mum, but my eight-and-a-half-year old son looks very much, to me, like he's headed for a… — Arabella Weir Copy Share Image
A broad definition of crime in England is that it is any lower-class activity that is displeasing to the upper class. — David Frost Copy Share Image
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