The poor must be wisely visited and liberally cared for, so that mendicity shall not be tempted into mendacity, nor want exasperated… — Robert Charles Winthrop Copy Share Image
I can't point to any major episodes of sexual discrimination in my early life. But I was so aware of the crime,… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
In England, if you commit a crime, the police don't have a gun and you don't have a gun. If you commit… — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
The exceptions of the scrupulous put one in mind of some general pardons where everything is forgiven except crimes. — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
If you had enough money, you could hardly commit crimes at all. You just perpetrated amusing little peccadilloes. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Violence,’ someone had once told Marnie, ‘isn’t what you think it is. It isn’t someone bursting into your home in the middle… — Sarah Hilary Copy Share Image
For people in neighborhoods where violence is prevalent, violence becomes a way of dealing and coping with their lives. No matter how… — Steven James Copy Share Image
The criminal is not alone when he returns to the scene of the crime; he is joined there by his victim, and… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
“In sum," Midlife said, giving the room his best you-the-jury baritone, "Our defense will be...?" He looked to Matt for the answer/… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
“He proceeded on the theory that confinement within the walls of the prison was punishment. That the law never intended to confine… — Lewis E. Lawes Copy Share Image
“In it's purest form, an act of retribution provides symmetry. The rendering payment of crimes against the innocent. But a danger on… — Emily Thorne Copy Share Image
Lucky are you, reader, if you happen not to be of that sex to whom it is forbidden all good things; to… — Marie de Gournay Copy Share Image
The vision of the anointed is one in which ills as poverty, irresponsible sex, and crime derive primarily from 'society,' rather than… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“When I started off, I believed that the true determinant of how great I was was through my lifestyle, wardrobe, the type… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
The crime bill basically incentivized the prison system. There were quotas, mandatory minimums. You have to serve 85 percent of your time,… — Malcolm Jenkins Copy Share Image
“A glass poured to air for the one who sits with us unseen; the patron and protector, the Crooked Warden, the Father… — Scott Lynch Copy Share Image
Crime butchers innocence to secure a throne, and innocence struggles with all its might against the attempts of crime. — Maximilien Robespierre Copy Share Image
If misery be the effect of virtue, it ought to be reverenced; if of ill-fortune, to be pitied; and if of vice,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I've spent my life defending the Net, and I do feel that if we don't fight online crime, we are running a… — Mikko Hypponen Copy Share Image
Like crime, terrorism is a fact of life. I grew up in Israel, where every unattended bag was a suspected bomb; when… — Yochai Benkler Copy Share Image
“Not everyone does what they’re supposed to do, or does what you want them to do. And sure, it can hurt your… — Nora McInerny Purmort Copy Share Image
My buddy tells me a lot of interesting stories about what goes on in prison - it just makes my head spin… — Aaron Douglas Copy Share Image
If in doubt, do not pain. Inflict as little pain as possible. Look for alternatives to punishments, not only alternative punishments — Howard Zehr Copy Share Image
What too few people mention when discussing crime is the degree to which concentrated poverty, hopelessness and despair are the chambermaids of… — Charles M. Blow Copy Share Image
I know that statistically, it has been proven that there is a tremendous amount of black on black crime within the inner… — Alex Haley Copy Share Image
I'm very tough on crimes where there are victims who have been physically harmed. In such cases, I do not believe in… — Tom Price Copy Share Image
By addressing generations of trauma in the Black community, Concordance helps people released from prison achieve significant change and lasting success for… — David Steward Copy Share Image
The idea of accountability in Vietnam, Nicaragua and now Iraq - the media never has that in its quiver. When you see… — Haskell Wexler Copy Share Image
So much of contemporary crime fiction is painful to read and obsessed with violence, particularly against women, and I can't read that. — Donna Leon 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
To the criminals and all their accomplices, I, today, humbly and as a brother, repeat: convert yourselves to love and justice. It… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
If I was president, you wouldn't be sitting in jail for crimes that's not violent; you wouldn't be doing too much time… — YG Copy Share Image
And for any victim of a violent crime, when you actually get to go in and realize and see their faces and… — Patty Hearst Copy Share Image
“...people called it justice, but prison doesn't make everything better," he observes. "Just because someone pays a price doesn't mean they didn't… — Autumn Doughton Copy Share Image
People high in conscientiousness get better grades in high school and college; they commit fewer crimes; and they stay married longer. — Paul Tough Copy Share Image
You have got to make sure there's due process for somebody that's accused of a crime. You've got make sure they're safe. — Rick Scott Copy Share Image
[People] earn extra money [in prison] selling contraband, dope, and things of that sort to the inmates, and so that really it's… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Incarceration has become a business. It is in the interest of the police and the prisons to keep locking people up. — Sam Branson Copy Share Image
We are so inculcated with guilt that we think that weakness is a sin or that it is some crime against nature… — Anton Szandor LaVey Copy Share Image