One thing I have learned in institutions is not to press hard on the fact that their inmates are, like the rest… — Mary B. Harris Copy Share Image
If I go out of public life with one feeling, with one conviction, it is this : a deep regret for many… — Henri Bourassa Copy Share Image
Augustine of Hippo used to say that, but for God's grace, he should have been capable of committing any crime; and it… — Henry Parry Liddon Copy Share Image
Defenders of the system will counter by saying this drug war has been aimed at violent crime. But that is not the… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
The city of Copenhagen is a climate crime scene tonight, with the guilty men and women fleeing to the airport in shame.… — Kumi Naidoo Copy Share Image
“Provisions for martial law and the institutions to implement a military dictatorship inside the U.S. affect all facets of our society. No… — Mae Brussell Copy Share Image
“I'm supposed to be guilty of all sorts of crimes and misdemeanors, but when you get right down to it, I'm really… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
The liberty of the press would be an empty sound, and no man would venture to write on any subject, however, pure… — Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine Copy Share Image
“But how did I murder her? Is that how men do murders? Do men go to commit a murder as I went… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
What is a war criminal? Was not war itself a crime against God and humanity, and, therefore, were not all those who… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
There is something about big cities that turns me on, and for whatever mysterious reason, places like New York and Paris inspire… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
In the first batch of readers, back in the '60s and '70s, the criminal class was still literate, so I would get… — Donald E. Westlake Copy Share Image
“If I owe a person money, and cannot pay him, and he threatens to put me in prison, another person can take… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“You seem to have quite a taste for discussing these horrible subjects," she said, rather scornfully; "you ought to have been a… — Mary Elizabeth Braddon Copy Share Image
I am a writer, a professional journalist with serious credentials in Crime, Craziness, and Politics. I have mingled with dangerous criminals and… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“I saw her sign the register, but her name isn't on it any more. The bellboy says he never saw her. Now… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
At one time my only wish was to be a police official. It seemed to me to be an occupation for my… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
I appreciate our government's determination to investigate the circumstances surrounding the death of the Bytyqi brothers, which Serbia's Interior Minister has rightly… — John McCain Copy Share Image
As far as U.S. intelligence knows, Iran is developing nuclear capacities, but they don't know if they are trying to develop nuclear… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Hurting someone's self-esteem as a child made them hate themselves. Hurting someone's self-esteem as a teen made them hurt themselves. Hurting someone's… — DJ Adams Copy Share Image
“a serious contender for my book of year. I can't believe I only discovered Chris Carter a year ago and I now… — ayaz mallah Copy Share Image
“It's goddamned funny in this police racket how an old woman can look out of a window and see a guy running… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best... They're sending people that have lots of problems, and they're bringing those… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
“Saintliness is very odd. When people encounter it, they often take it for something else, something completely unlike it: indifference, mockery, scheming,… — Philippe Claudel Copy Share Image
If you live in a place that you perceive to be a crowded place, you appreciate government; you see it as this… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
The Collector [John Fowles book] does such a good job of capturing the mindset of a capturer, and also that's become a… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
“of the nearly 7.3 million people currently under correctional control, only 1.6 million are in prison.27 This caste system extends far beyond… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
It is exactly the fear of revenge that motivates the deepest crimes, from the killing of the enemy's children lest they grow… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
When the throne of God is overturned, the rebel realizes that it is now his own responsibility to create the justice, order,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Roppongi is now virtually a foreign neighborhood. Africans-I don't mean African-Americans-who don't speak English are there doing who knows what. This is… — Shintaro Ishihara Copy Share Image
“In the Orwellian dystopia the original sin was thoughtcrime, but in our new corporate dystopia the secret inner crime is need, particularly… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
“Assigning degrees of blame to betrayal is a difficult project, much like deciding which of two murderers has the more wicked heart.… — Galt Niederhoffer Copy Share Image
The conventional wisdom is often wrong. Crime didn't keep soaring in the 1990s, money alone doesn't win elections, and - surprise -… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
A lot of crime fiction writing is also lazy. Personality is supposed to be shown by the protagonist's taste in music, or… — Peter Temple 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
“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
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