Furthermore, the financial and social investment in prisons means that black and brown youth become, essentially, fodder for the machinery of capitalized… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
Affliction hardens and discourages us because, like a red hot iron, it stamps the soul to its very depths with the scorn,… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Child abuse continues to be a significant problem in the United Sates. It was estimated that 2001,903,000 children were the victims of… — Pete Domenici Copy Share Image
“The two main criminals are France and the United States. They owe Haiti enormous reparations because of actions going back hundreds of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
You can see how prison could affect some of the other guys that are there for longer than a year. Because eventually,… — Michael Sorrentino Copy Share Image
Its simple. There is good, and there is evil. There are those who commit crimes, and those who stop them. The two… — Dick Grayson Copy Share Image
Let's remember the children who come from broken homes, surrounded by crime, drugs, temptation, their peers having babies out of wedlock, but… — Armstrong Williams Copy Share Image
...but this is the real objection to that torrent of modern talk about treating crime as disease, about making prison merely a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The original PATRIOT Act greatly increased our nation's ability to share intelligence information, made better use of technology, and provided terrorism investigators… — Michael K. Simpson Copy Share Image
Detective stories keep alive a view of the world which ought to be true. Of course people read them for fun ...… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
By far the most numerous and most flagrant violations of personal liberty and individual rights are performed by governments... The major crimes… — John Hospers Copy Share Image
There are countries in which public establishments are considered by the government as its own personal affair, so that it admits persons… — Gustave de Beaumont Copy Share Image
Every place in the country you should get a license that shows you know how to safely store it, keep it away… — Michael D. Barnes Copy Share Image
When grown people speak of the innocence of children, they dont really know what they mean. Pressed, they will go a step… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“It was the first time the chief of police, a kindly family man whose name was Hook, had ever been required to… — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
just as violence is the last refuge of the inarticulate, so it is also the first resort of the incompetent, the easy… — Judith Crist Copy Share Image
“This man, although he may not have actually committed the crime attributed to him, is nevertheless morally culpable, because he is the… — Judge Webster Thayer Copy Share Image
Crimes increase as education, opportunity, and property decrease. Whatever spreads ignorance, poverty and, discontent causes crime… Criminals have their own responsibility, their… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
To travel only a few blocks in his own homeland, an elderly grandfather waits to beg for the whim of a teenage… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
The problem with movies and books is they make evil look glamorous, exciting, when it's no such thing. It's boring and it's… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
What I try to do is write a story about a detective rather than a detective story. Keeping the reader fooled until… — Dashiell Hammett Copy Share Image
In America, the traditional routes to black identity have hardly been normal. Suicide (disappearance by imitation, or willed extinction), violence (hysterical religiosity,… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
As Albert Camus wrote, the doctor’s role is as a witness – to witness authentically the reality of humanity, and to speak… — James Orbinski Copy Share Image
“It was as if they'd discovered something that had once been there but had gotten hidden or misunderstood or forgotten over time,… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
“And let us tranquilize ourselves by making a compact. Next time (with a view to our peace of mind) we'll commit the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
In Venezuela, when I was living there, crime was growing. You couldn't feel safe anywhere. You couldn't leave your car in the… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“The book argues that even though many cases have been held up as classic examples of modern American “witch hunts,” none of… — Ross Cheit Copy Share Image
We got into all the trouble you could ever imagine. We figured that if the Jones boys and all the gangsters ran… — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
Adults...struggle desperately with fiction, demanding constantly that it conform to the rules of everyday life. Adults foolishly demand to know how Superman… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
I'm serious. I've got to get people to realize that the government is full of it. Republicans and Democrats want to argue… — Charles Barkley Copy Share Image
The most miserable prison in the world is the prison we make for ourselves when we refuse to show mercy. Our thoughts… — Warren W. Wiersbe Copy Share Image
Imagine a crime series in which, every week, there is a white suspect and a black suspect. And every week, lo and… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
All previous crimes of the Russian empire had been committed under the cover of a discreet shadow. The deportation of a million… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Our government says people must not take law in their own hands, But has given the law in the hands of people… — De philosopher DJ Kyos Copy Share Image
From the Million Man March to this day, the crime and murder rates have significantly decreased in the major cities of America,… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
The attorney general could push and the president Donald Trump could push governors and state attorney generals to move forward with hate… — Jonathan Greenblatt Copy Share Image
Today I live on an island, in a house that is sad, hard, severe, that I built for myself, solitary on a… — Curzio Malaparte Copy Share Image
Chélan had acted as imprudently for Julien as he had for himself. He had given him the habit of reasoning correctly, and… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
A criminal has a kind of freedom by definition that the ordinary citizen doesn't have. The criminal's able to realize himself in… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
“One disturbing aspect of abuse and harassment is the idea that it’s not the crime that’s the betrayal but the testimony about… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image