Every soul confined in a prison of sin, guilt, or perversion has a key to the gate. The key is labeled “repentance.”… — Boyd K. Packer Copy Share Image
Too often, we see violent criminals return to the streets they have previously terrorized, only to commit more violent crimes. — Kathy Szeliga Copy Share Image
Every crime has, in the moment of its perpetration, Its own avenging angel-dark misgiving, An ominous sinking at the inmost heart. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence - as it saves most writers who live in 'interesting' oppressive times… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Wine takes away reason, engenders insanity, leads to thousands of crimes, and imposes such an enormous expense on nations. — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
By the time I got to high school I knew what I was gonna do. Mainly because I looked around and saw… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Law And Freedom without Violence (Anarchy) Law And Violence without Freedom (Despotism) Violence without Freedom And Law (Barbarism) Violence with Freedom And… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What crimes, for which we condemn the Government as satanic, have not we been guilty of towards our own untouchable brethren? — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I think that for those of us who come from oppressed backgrounds and who do our work in marginalized communities, recovering our… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
Strength and success - they are above morality, above criticism. It seems, then, that it is not what you do, but how… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
[Clinton's crimes] is well documented, and the establishment that protects them has engaged in a massive coverup of widespread criminal activity at… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
“When white Americans frankly peel back the layers of our commingled pasts, we are all marked by it. Whether a company or… — Douglas A. Blackmon Copy Share Image
Almost no one under 60 remembers what fundraising was like before Watergate. Until the 1970s, campaign money was collected by "bagmen," familiar… — Jonathan Alter Copy Share Image
J. Edgar Hoover very famously denied the existence of organized crime up until the Appalachian Meeting, I think, in 1957. It was… — Terence Winter Copy Share Image
One was a horrible case called Oliphant v. Suquamish Indian Tribe which denied tribes the right to criminally prosecute non-Indians who commit… — Robert A. Williams, Jr Copy Share Image
Passing a law like the assault weapons ban is a symbolic - purely symbolic - move in that direction. Its only real… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
I only do business with the people I do business with. The people I do business with find out I do business… — John Guare Copy Share Image
A criminal may improve and become a decent member of society. A foreigner cannot improve. Once a foreigner, always a foreigner. There… — George Mikes Copy Share Image
In the old days villains had moustaches and kicked the dog. Audiences are smarter today. They don't want their villain to be… — Alfred Hitchcock Copy Share Image
Everybody believes that capital punishment is wrong, but when they look at certain cases, they're quick to say, 'Put them to death,'… — Jeff Lindsay Copy Share Image
“Nothing is worse in prison than the consciousness of one's innocenc; it prevents acclimatizatin and undermines one's morale...” — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
It's fine to criticize somebody else's crimes and misdeeds, but you don't talk about your own. The only exception is a country… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The law protects nothing in that very respect, in which it is, at the same time, in the eye of the law,… — William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield Copy Share Image
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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