The division between art and deviousness and crime is sometimes as thin as a cigarette paper. — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Extreme violence has a way of preventing us from seeing the interests it serves. — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
Pushing the boundaries of polite society does not just fall under the purview of crime fiction authors. — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
Attica. The name itself has long signified resistance to prison abuse and state violence. — James Forman, Jr Copy Share Image
Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
In ordinary detective novels you never see the consequences of what happens in a story in the next book. That you do… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is no city in America that has reduced crime as much as we have in the last three years. This is… — Rudy Giuliani Copy Share Image
Let's stop pretending we can arrest our way to safety and security. Despite all the fine work that policemen and women do,… — Carrie P. Meek Copy Share Image
“If I were a cop, and I caught a criminal, I’d throw the book at them. A heavy book, like an unabridged… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Prison life, fortunately, I spent a lot of years, about 18 years with other prisoners, and, as I say, they enriched your soul. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
I believe the United States should make the protection of Syrian civilians from war crimes and crimes against humanity a higher priority. — Bob Casey, Jr Copy Share Image
I committed crimes of passion and my soul was suspected, But it was thrown out of court because of course the Creator… — Cee Lo Green Copy Share Image
“There’s always going to be a criminal element in the population. At least as long as people believe they need politicians.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“They are not judgments, punishments, or betrayals. They are a purely peaceable thing: the basic principles you identify for yourself that define… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
I've seen villages in South America with no police whatever. Then the cops would arrive, then the sanitary inspectors, and before you… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
“The detective story, as created by Poe, is something as specialised and as intellectual as a chess problem, whereas the best English… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“Batley insisted that no cult existed but the jury found him guilty of 35 offences including 11 rapes. three indecent assaults, causing… — Michael Salter Copy Share Image
Ben Skinner's brains and courage take us into the belly of the beast and expose the ugly truth of modern slavery. Instead… — Kevin Bales Copy Share Image
“It’s not the actual crime that makes me want to leave, it’s the possibility that it can happen any time, any second… — Marlon James Copy Share Image
What I didn't realize was the severity of the crime, so to speak. I think that's important. That's one of the lessons… — Jayson Werth Copy Share Image
Whatever open-border libertarians think about immigration law, once the immigration scofflaw steals, trespasses, or vandalizes private property, said alien is guilty of… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
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