“You don’t rewrite it, censor it, or edit it, to suit some warped view you have of the past and your own… — V.T. Davy Copy Share Image
Solitary confinement is too terrible a punishment to inflict on any human being, no matter what his crime. Hardened criminals in the… — Emmeline Pankhurst Copy Share Image
I think the years I have spent in prison have been the most formative and important in my life because of the… — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
hooting for 'Savdhaan India' in Mathura made me realise that no matter what place you come from be it a holy city,… — Siddharth Shukla Copy Share Image
Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Laws and mechanisms originally meant to enforce copyright, protect children and fight online crime are abused to silence or intimidate political critics. — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
[As in the case of] alcohol prohibition, illegality has driven organized crime, sent countless people to jail, and killed many thousands. Repression… — Sam Branson Copy Share Image
I've always been fascinated with the stealing of innocence. It's the most heinous crime, and certainly a capital crime if there ever… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
“What Hurts the People There are five things that hurt the people: There are local officials who use public office for personal… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
With breathtaking rapidity, we are destroying all that was lovely to look at and turning America into a prison house of the… — Eric Sevareid Copy Share Image
The woman who runs the Pennsylvania Innocence Project told me that there's a man she's been trying to get out of prison… — Richard LaGravenese Copy Share Image
I was embarrassed by my parents. I thought they had nothing of interest to say or contribute to anything. My real crime… — Linda Grant Copy Share Image
“I have seen, the desperation and disorder of the powerless: how it twists the lives of children on the streets of Jakarta… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Look, we understood we couldn't make it illegal to be young or poor or black in the United States, but we could… — John Ehrlichman Copy Share Image
For every crime that comes before him, a judge is required to complete a perfect syllogism in which the major premise must… — Cesare Beccaria Copy Share Image
[Muslims] who are here and who are behaving according to our laws and our constitutions are happy to stay, are equal to… — Geert Wilders Copy Share Image
“What punishment a free people can mete out to its enemy when aroused by unjust attack! Free America was speaking! Mighty America… — William Arthur Sirmon Copy Share Image
Many things would be changed for Americans if they would only admit that there is ill-luck in this world and that misfortune… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Prisons where people can't even work is the worst punishment you can think of. And I don't think we should put all… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
The first atrocity, the first war crime committed in any war of aggression by the aggressors is against the truth. — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
People do peculiar things in life and they do for whatever reason but I think one of the greatest crimes in life… — Marco Pierre White Copy Share Image
Society questions the police and their methods, and the police say, Do you want the criminals off the street or not? — Kurt Russell Copy Share Image
The worst prison is not made of metal bars. The worst prison is when your internal reality does not match your external… — Yasmin Copy Share Image
To leave the number of births unrestricted, as is done in most states, inevitably causes poverty among the citizens, and poverty produces… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I know they say (Stalin) killed 20, 30, 40 million people. It's bullsh*t. (I have yet to find) one crime that Stalin committed. — Grover Furr Copy Share Image
The prison of lust is just that very one of which the soul shuts the doors upon herself; for each act of… — Plato Copy Share Image
Prison service vans that travel 90 miles to take a prisoner 90 yards; paedophiles free to leer at children in the very… — Trevor Phillips Copy Share Image
I account this body nothing but a close prison to my soul; and the earth a larger prison to my body. I… — Joseph Hall Copy Share Image
I read true crime books, and I read when people do case studies of stuff. I'm into books like that. Case studies… — Tom Araya Copy Share Image
Crime is the soul of lust. What would pleasure be if it were not accompanied by crime? It is not the object… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
The State practices "violence," the individual must not do so. The state's behavior is violence, and it calls its violence "law"; that… — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
The collapse of Enron and the subsequent collapse of Arthur Andersen were tremendous tragedies. But as I stated at the time of… — Kenneth Lay Copy Share Image
The Chicago Way is a wonderful first novel. Michael Harvey has studied the masters and put his own unique touch on the… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
When trying a case [the famous judge] L. Cassius never failed to inquire "Who gained by it?" Man's character is such that… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
And there are rules for crime fiction. Or if not rules, at least expectations and you have to give the audience what… — Tod Goldberg Copy Share Image
The reason of idleness and of crime is the deferring of our hopes. Whilst we are waiting, we beguile the time with… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“It’s a well-known secret that most criminals are extremely lazy and unwilling to make extra efforts, even when those efforts may mean… — Steven Briggs Copy Share Image
“Slowly, I'm beginning to realise that what happened to me wasn't my fault, that I was taken advantage of by a group… — Girl A Copy Share Image
“In the South, there was a gentle tradition of 'it's only a crime if you get caught doing it.' Sometimes it was… — C. L. Bevill Copy Share Image
All prisons are brimming over with innocence. It is those who cram their fellows into them, in the name of empty ideas,… — Jean Anouilh Copy Share Image