What shocks me is that so many people leave care and become homeless, and when you're homeless you get into crime, prostitution… — Samantha Morton Copy Share Image
“For most of history, life has been hierarchical. A few have enjoyed the privileges that come from monopolizing violence. Everyone else has… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
Repudiating the virtues of your world, criminals hopelessly agree to organize a forbidden universe. They agree to live in it. The air… — Jean Genet Copy Share Image
“Her punishment was to be made to feel like a fool. She had been given her opportunity to participate in civilization, and… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
For our past can be a prison we are locked in permanently, or it can be the key to our freedom if… — Kevin Powell Copy Share Image
If you want to cut crime, if you want to end homelessness, you have to deal with sexual violence, sexual harassment, and… — Eric Garcetti Copy Share Image
“He did his best to explain this to Inspector Sloan afterwards. 'A funny feeling, sir.' 'Yes?' Funny feelings were not encouraged at… — Catherine Aird Copy Share Image
Nothing that isn't a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The world is ruled by neither justice nor morality; crime is not punished nor virtue rewarded, one is forgotten as quickly as… — Tadeusz Borowski Copy Share Image
The 5th Amendment guarantees that defendants can't face 'double jeopardy,' which means the government can't prosecute a person a second time for… — Robert Shapiro Copy Share Image
Education spurs growth and unlocks potential. After all, a single year of primary education creates a 10 to 20 percent increase in… — Shakira Copy Share Image
Perhaps this is how girls fall -- not in some crime of enchantment at the hands of a wicked ne'er-do-well, a grand… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
God's ways seem dark, but, soon or late, They touch the shining hills of day; The evil cannot brook delay, The good… — John Greenleaf Whittier Copy Share Image
Asset forfeiture is a mockery of the Bill of Rights. There is no presumption of innocence, no need to prove you guilty… — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
“Whenever any American’s life is taken by another American unnecessarily—whether it is done in the name of the law or in the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If we as a nation are to break the cycle of poverty, crime and the growing underclass of young people ill equipped… — Jane Fonda Copy Share Image
Laws exist in every state that make animal cruelty a crime. Horse slaughter is simply another form of animal abuse. — Bo Derek Copy Share Image
I think the British government's cutting back of arts funding is such a crime. I bet it will happen in Denmark soon,… — Henrik Vibskov Copy Share Image
States have invested themselves with the right to legitimise violence - so who gets criminalised and delegitimised? Only - or well that's… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
There was no way possible [the queen] could have done all of the things the pamphleteers claimed. The crimes were too gross,… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“Almost none of us know how to escape the trap of self-punishment. It has sinisterly woven itself into the fibers of American… — Stefani Ruper Copy Share Image
Those in blue suits who use thinly veiled race symbols -- when they say welfare and crime and three strikes and anti-… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
We know that when law abiding citizens who know how to utilize a firearm have one on their person, it helps prevent… — Paul Broun Copy Share Image
When the enterprising burglar isn't burgling; When the cut-throat isn't occupied in crime; He loves to hear the little brook a-gurgling; And… — W. S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year and spends very little on office supplies. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
“The hinterlands . Where the criminals and the carnivals and the concatenating counterfeiters of no morals to speak of make a home.” — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
Crime and the effect on the community, and the need for law enforcement - those are not abstract concepts or political slogans… — Ketanji Brown Jackson Copy Share Image
The rest of Sitka's homicides are so-called crimes of passion, which is a shorthand way of expressing the mathematical product of alcohol… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open? Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking. Live in silence. — Jalal Ad-Din Rumi Copy Share Image
All I can really say is it's bloodier than hell. In this one I'm going to be much more direct and honest… — Christopher Darden Copy Share Image
A picture is a thing which requires as much knavery, as much malice, and as much vice as the perpetration of a… — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
Hollywood no longer depicts reporters in ruthless pursuit of criminals, high and low. Now they are the criminals. — Frank Rich Copy Share Image
The question is not whether there is intelligent life out there, the question is, whether there is intelligent life down here. As… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
Dr. Flint had sworn that he would make me suffer, to my last day, for this new crime against him, as he… — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image
Most crime novels offer a curious kind of escape, to places that jag the nerves and worry the mind. Their rides of… — Susie Dent Copy Share Image
Disarmed citizens encourage crime and violence. Armed citizens encourage criminals to find a safer line of work. — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
“The sticklers Truss appeals to in the book are distinguished by several features. One is anger out of proportion to the crime.… — Robert Lane Greene Copy Share Image
CEOs of fossil energy companies know what they are doing and are aware of long-term consequences of continued business as usual. In… — James Hansen Copy Share Image
The fact is, since then, many killings,murders, crime, drugs pouring across the border, are money going out and the drugs coming in.… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image