If you're gonna judge people by crimes, you get into a quagmire. If you're gonna judge people by themselves, by who and… — Wilbert Rideau Copy Share Image
“304. When you are in prison, you have but one desire: freedom. If you fall ill in prison, you do not think… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For a government to declare a vice to be a crime, and to punish it as such, is an attempt to falsify… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
We're not as materialistic and income-tax conscious as we think. At the moment our superstitions are tucked away, but come out sometimes… — Terence Fisher Copy Share Image
All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
How accurately can the law fix the crime? There has to be a mechanism for very fast action. The law is like… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nor all that heralds rake from coffin'd clay, Nor florid prose, nor honied lies of rhyme, Can blazon evil deeds, or consecrate… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Crime fiction is a genre for writing stories about people - about conflict, about guilt, about passion, about the human condition. — Jo Nesbo Copy Share Image
There are many factors that affect crime rates. But we recognize that the main reason crime has decreased has always been -… — William Barr Copy Share Image
“Her eyes narrowing, she turned her attention back to where Stephanie stood with Ben, feeling her own pain turn to intense fury.… — Nina D'Angelo Copy Share Image
“The biggest crime in the human history is the formulation of wicked states, which has been rooted to such an extent that… — Anup Joshi Copy Share Image
Through TV and moving pictures a child may see more violence in thirty minutes than the average adult experiences in a lifetime.… — Fredric Wertham Copy Share Image
The good news from the U.S. military survey of focus groups is that Iraqis do accept the Nuremberg principles. They understand that… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
He had put his hand up in class, a declaration of existence, a claim that he knew something. And that was forbidden… — John Ajvide Lindqvist Copy Share Image
It had long been true, and prisoners knew this better than anyone, that the poorer you were the more likely you were… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Homicide detective tryin to threaten me with some time, only thing I ever murdered was college ruled lines, there's a patent in… — Z-Ro Copy Share Image
For the credit of virtue we must admit that the greatest misfortunes of men are those into which they fall through their… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“...if you wish to tell me what crime I have committed, explain to me in what a crime consists. For as my… — from the Man in the Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
When I was in prison, rap was all I had at that point because I was kicked out of school, all that… — Tee Grizzley Copy Share Image
The impulse which directs to right conduct, and deters from crime, is not only older than the ages of nations and cities,… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
She was unequal to anyone's wistfulness. She had made too little of her life. Its loneliness shamed her like a crime. — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
You can't use a drawing to prove a war crime. A drawing doesn't have that notion that it's proof of a reality.… — Molly Crabapple Copy Share Image
I'm good with a grill. I like to make cheeseburgers - I once read in a David Goodis crime novel that you're… — Noah Baumbach Copy Share Image
You know that murder is wicked. If you saw your master kill a man, do you suppose this would be any excuse… — Jupiter Hammon Copy Share Image
“Through art they confuse us and blind us to our enslavement. Art adorns our prison walls, keeps us silent and diverted and… — Jim Morrison Copy Share Image
If global warming is not contained, the West will face a choice of a refugee crisis of unimaginable proportions, or direct complicity… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
Lawyers should not be charged with the same crimes as their clients. Trials related to political charges are not in accordance with… — Shirin Ebadi Copy Share Image
The outer prisons are made by the community to contain those who have dared break its laws. The inner prisons each man… — Lucy Freeman Copy Share Image
The fact that a crime might have been committed with impunity in the past may make it seem more familiar and less… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
How come they don't think you can handle a new story out of the blue on the TV news? They gotta make… — Brian Regan Copy Share Image
Whenever we engage in consumption or production patterns which take more than we need, we are engaging in violence. — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
In 'Swimming Pool,' all the colors are very warm, sunny, the pool and all that. In 'Love Crime,' everything is so cold,… — Ludivine Sagnier Copy Share Image
He was not looking forward to breaking the law. He was straight now. He'd matured. Crime no longer excited him. What?' Ronald… — Jennifer Crusie Copy Share Image
The New York Daily News suggested that my biggest war crime was not killing myself like a gentleman. Presumably Hitler was a… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Sex Piston, if you don’t quit bugging your sister, the police are going to be charging me with another crime,” Knox threatened.” — Jamie Begley Copy Share Image
“Anxiously, he touched the lump on his head again, then felt his injured leg, groaning. "The whole affair is a mystery to… — Henry Winterfeld Copy Share Image
The convoluted wording of legalisms grew up around the necessity to hide from ourselves the violence we do to each other. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Crime against the vulnerable individuals of society is a worldwide problem and as women, we need to know how to defend ourselves… — Demi-Leigh Nel-Peters Copy Share Image
Let the punishments of criminals be useful. A hanged man is good for nothing; a man condemned to public works still serves… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
What kind of times are they, when A talk about trees is almost a crime Because it implies silence about so many… — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
