“They focused on reparation to the victim rather than punishment or fines levied on the perpetrator, and common consent of the people… — Ben Carson Copy Share Image
“Punishment was collective: judges sentenced not just the guilty individual but also family members, neighbors, and community leaders.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“if a being has sufficient sense of justice and civility to know it has done wrong, knowing it has done wrong is… — Sheri S. Tepper Copy Share Image
Nightly you retrace your steps again to return to the scene of the crime. It's uncanny how you hover in the air… — Aimee Mann Copy Share Image
The strength required for the vision of the most powerful reality is not only compatible with the most powerful strength for action,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There are bad examples which are worse than crimes; and more states have perished from the violation of morality than from the… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
Many police departments still use DNA evidence the way they have used fingerprints and tire tracks: to determine whether a suspect committed… — Bill Dedman Copy Share Image
I think there's a lot of naivete and hubris within our mix of personalities. That's probably our worst crime. I keep wondering… — Ian Williams Copy Share Image
Technology has changed things, same as everywhere. But the economy has changed drastically. When Jamaica first won independence, our dollar was stronger… — Damian Marley Copy Share Image
Crime in the city streets is more than a political issue. It's a too rampant fact… In Indianapolis they have come up… — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share Image
The competition for the future of crime fiction is fierce, as it should be, but don't take your eyes off Craig McDonald.… — Laura Lippman Copy Share Image
We are extricating ourselves from a system that insulted our common humanity by dividing us from one another on the basis of… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Come not, when I am dead, To drop thy foolish tears upon my grave, To trample round my fallen head, And vex… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
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The propaganda system allows the U.S. Ieadership to commit crimes without limit and with no suggestion of misbehavior or criminality; in fact,… — Edward S. Herman Copy Share Image
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“I would make a HORRIBLE outlaw. I can plan the crime perfectly, but I'd also need to plan the outcomes to make… — Michelle M. Pillow Copy Share Image
What does fighting crime mean, exactly? Does it mean upholding the law when a woman shoplifts to feed her children, or does… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
War crimes will be prosecuted. War criminals will be punished. And it will be no defense to say, 'I was just following… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
The reality is that capital punishment in America is a lottery. It is a punishment that is shaped by the constraints of… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
That man is thought a dangerous knave, Or zealot plotting crime, Who for advancement of his kind Is wiser than his time. — Douglas William Jerrold Copy Share Image
To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
I'm sold as a literary writer in Holland; I'm sold as crime fiction in England. I think of it as just literature. — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
Please Mr. Officer, leggo me hand. You don't know me and you don't understan. You see me flashin' a criss rental. So… — Gregory Isaacs Copy Share Image
“Fuck you, angel. Fuck you and all God's little prison bitches. He slips you some cigarettes and a con job smile and… — Richard Kadrey Copy Share Image
If there's a great story and great characters, then I can love a film in any genre, though crime thrillers and sci-fi… — Ed Gass-Donnelly Copy Share Image
We need to rethink a system that has targeted young people, particularly young people of color, for nonviolent crimes. — Brad Schneider Copy Share Image
We as a Congress have a moral obligation to bring justice to the families of these victims. Furthermore, as a society based… — Bob Filner Copy Share Image
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When I set out to write crime fiction, I didn't think to myself, 'I'm going to model myself on Agatha Christie' or… — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind. It is the deed that… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Police violence is the tip of the iceberg when it relates to the conditions overall of black people across the globe. — Alicia Garza Copy Share Image
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[P]rogress, however, has not sufficiently infiltrated the Interior Ministry, affording protection to those who participated in the Bytyqi murders and other egregious… — Avis Bohlen Copy Share Image
I came from a real tough neighborhood. Once a guy pulled a knife on me. I knew he wasn't a professional, the… — Rodney Dangerfield Copy Share Image
I am quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood. I had, as… — John Brown Copy Share Image
If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking...… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
“Violence is a tool. It is meant to shock. To change. Instead, they normalize and celebrate it. And create a culture of… — Pierce Brown Copy Share Image
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