“Hobbes's analysis of the causes of violence, borne out by modern data on crime and war, shows that violence is not a… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“. . . In all parts of our globe, fanatics have cut each other's throats, publicly burnt each other, committed without a… — Baron D'Holbach Copy Share Image
“Between the crack and the boosting, the staff at the White House began to be concerned about our future careers. On the… — Damien Black Copy Share Image
President Obama has reduced the sentences of 22 federal prisoners who were arrested for drug-related crimes - eight of whom were serving… — Jimmy Fallon Copy Share Image
Due to broken windows policing, the following interactions can lead to tickets, arrests and summonses, warrants if tickets go unpaid and, in… — Opal Tometi Copy Share Image
“No more self-defeating device could be discovered than the one society has developed in dealing with the criminal. It proclaims his career… — Frank Tannenbaum Copy Share Image
You're about to meet a new great dame of crime fiction in Death Was the Other Woman. Linda L. Richards does a… — Linda Fairstein Copy Share Image
But look at Avatar (2009), one of the most globally viewed pieces of entertainment to have ever been made - the central… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
The plot is very important because writers have to play fair with their readers, but no one would care about the plot… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
You don’t have to sleep with prostitutes or take drugs in order to have a relationship with organized crime. They affect our… — Misha Glenny Copy Share Image
“Prison is quite literally a ghetto in the most classic sense of the word, a place where the U.S. government now puts… — Piper Kerman Copy Share Image
I never think of the word legacy. It doesn't mean anything. You do the right thing, in my judgment, and things will… — Raymond Kelly Copy Share Image
A handgun ban is not realistically enforceable. Confiscating guns would require house-to-house searches and alienate the very individuals whose compliance is essential… — Don Kates Copy Share Image
We [people] all need each other. Gangs do try to fill that void - but they can't do what healthy, balanced, and… — Luis J. Rodriguez Copy Share Image
80 percent of the Dutch jihadists who go to fight in Syria are Moroccans. 80 percent. They are 22 times over represented… — Geert Wilders Copy Share Image
My father always said I would do something big one day.'I've got a feeling about you, John Osbourne,' he'd tell me, after… — Ozzy Osbourne Copy Share Image
Mafia is a process,not a thing. Mafia is a form of clan - cooperation to which it's individual members pledge lifelong loyalty…Friendship,… — Joseph Bonanno Copy Share Image
I do believe that Obama is at war with Islam, it is never too late to embrace Islam. If we were to… — Anjem Choudary Copy Share Image
“As one reads history, not in the expurgated editions written for schoolboys and passmen, but in the original authorities of each time,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“He's bound to have done something ,” Nobby repeated. In this he was echoing the Patrician's view of crime and punishment. If… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The wise man will not pardon any crime that ought to be punished, but he will accomplish, in a nobler way, all… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
“Cops and Robbers in 1965 England was still a kind of Ealing comedy: crimes rarely involved firearms. The denizens of F-wing were… — Joe Boyd Copy Share Image
“This 'vampire' stuff is to stay right in this room. Until we have the assailant in custody we say nothing about these… — Jeff Rice Copy Share Image
Obamacare is a crime against democracy because a material part of that bill was not disclosed to the Senate nor to the… — Michele Bachmann Copy Share Image
[Today's left] would have left us with Slobodan Milosevic in power, Bosnia ethnically cleansed, Kosovo part of Greater Serbia, Afghanistan under the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“The greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules. It's people who follow orders that drop bombs… — Banksy Copy Share Image
“Society takes upon itself the right to inflict appalling punishment on the individual, but it also has the supreme vice of shallowness,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The only unforgivable crime is to cut short the experiment of one’s own life before its natural end. To do so is… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
As long as there are guns, the individual that wants a gun for a crime is going to have one and going… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Six months have passed since that horrible, horrible event of terrorism in the twin towers and Washington. I hope people all over… — Hamid Karzai Copy Share Image
All I am really promoting in the books is the Golden Rule, which I hope everybody knows to be "do as you… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Yes, [Philadelphia is] horrible, but in a very interesting way. There were places there that had been allowed to decay, where there… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the name of a greater civilization, we curse those who for the sake of their ambitious dreams, brought about the massacre… — Amadeo Bordiga Copy Share Image
“How easily such a thing can become a mania, how the most normal and sensible of women once this passion to be… — Kathryn Hurn Copy Share Image
“The real point here, however, is not that innocent people are locked up. That has been true since penitentiaries first opened in… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
All people make mistakes. All of us are sinners. All of us are criminals. All of us violate the law at some… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
We learned this week that Mitt Romney is building a car elevator in his house. An elevator for your cars. I get… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
There's a very complex connection between crime and addiction, because a lot of people are committing crime to either fuel their drug… — Kevin Sabet Copy Share Image
Doing crime films...maybe it's to some extent a matter of taste. Certainly my first novel had a criminal element and was about… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
“This is a speech we've all heard before. From the con artists who aren't like the burglars, who aren't like the armed… — Ben Aaronovitch Copy Share Image