“There is close relation, says Havelock Ellis, between crimes against the person and the price of alcohol, between crimes against property and… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“I use the term "punishment bureaucracy" instead of "criminal justice system" because it is a more accurate and less deceptive way to… — Alec Karakatsanis Copy Share Image
We've seen a kind of Donald Trump supporter on steroids, like the hate-crime people. Those people, I don't want to see, like… — Jen Kirkman Copy Share Image
Grievances cannot be redressed until they are known; and they cannot be known but through complaints and petitions. If these are deemed… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
New York has become an example of everything that is wrong with America. White Americans, fearing the crime and social alienation in… — David Duke Copy Share Image
Society had grown cruel. People who felt they were unwanted or unwelcome in their own country, reacted with aggression. There was no… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
“Longer sentences also build incarceration rates and create a chronic condition of social incapacitation for those imprisoned, as they face severe restrictions… — David Cay Johnston Copy Share Image
“Do you know what frees one from this captivity? It is every deep serious affection. Being friends, being brothers, love, these open… — Vincent van Gogh Copy Share Image
The worst crime of all would be that a mistake happens and no one talks about it or learns from it. So,… — Sanjay Gupta Copy Share Image
Private-sector firms are increasingly active in the prison industry and they and the militantly unionized correctional officers, almost all unskilled labor, constantly… — Conrad Black Copy Share Image
“Grant glanced down at his khaki jacket. Since he’d slipped on the US Navy uniform in Agent Bounter’s office, he’d felt a… — Jennifer Lane Copy Share Image
New York! The white prisons, the sidewalks swarming with maggots, the breadlines, the opium joints that are built like palaces, the kikes… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so. Now the law of nonviolence says… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Nothing has been left undone by the enemies of freedom. Every art and artifice, every cruelty and outrage has been practiced and… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“But the punishment-body relation is not the same as it was in the torture during public executions. The body now serves as… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Sick is a relative concept. We're all sick. The question is, what degree of functionality do we have with respect to the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“He knew more about the death of Lula Landry than he had ever meant or wanted to know; the same would be… — Robert Galbraith Copy Share Image
The Lord Chief Justice of England recently said that the greater part of his judicial time was spent investigating collisions between propelled… — Philip Guedalla Copy Share Image
“Have you ever felt, in the course of reading a detective novel, a guilty thrill of relief at having a character murdered… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
“A key to understanding why Lockdown America rises today is to consider our present system of punishment, particularly U.S. mass incarceration and… — Mark Lewis Taylor Copy Share Image
We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them -- to try to understand what you have done,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Man is born violent but is kept in check by the people around him. If he nevertheless manages to throw off his… — Ernst Jünger Copy Share Image
“Al... You ever kill anybody? In the United States? Because I know you mean it and everything, but I know these guys… — Phillip Rock Copy Share Image
To avoid a future of war, crime, and bankruptcy, the individual must begin to plan his own destiny, and the best source… — Manly Hall Copy Share Image
The idea is to use minor events that are believed to be related to a terrorist organization, so graffiti is one of… — Kim Rossmo Copy Share Image
“Of all the vices which degrade the human character, Selfishness is the most odious and contemptible. An undue love of Self leads… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“An ax came through the door. Then two firefighters. They looked down at and assistant mall manager crying and wearing a melted… — Tim Dorsey Copy Share Image
“I get it. I haven't seen much of the real world yet. But let's say I do get out there... and it… — Naoyuki Ochiai Copy Share Image
The war on drugs causes other supplemental crimes to take place because of the original illegality of it. But then again, that's… — Jesse Ventura Copy Share Image
Incarcerating non-violent offenders in the same population as more dangerous criminals has the effect of inculcating the former into a culture of… — Ken Cuccinelli Copy Share Image
“We say that the dangerous criminal is the educated criminal. We say that the most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
What many commentators have missed in the ongoing attack on Edward Snowden is not that he uncovered information that made clear how… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
I thought Daredevil was kind of cool because he couldn't do anything. I mean, he's blind. It wasn't that he could fly.… — Frank Miller Copy Share Image
An aggressive war is the great crime against everything good in the world. A defensive war, which must necessarily turn to aggressive… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Watching violence in movies or in TV programs stimulates the spectators to imitate what they see much more than if seen live… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
“Sorrow and profound fatigue are at the heart of Dewey's silence. It had been his ambition to learn "exactly what happened in… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
“It is different with the upper classes. They, following science, want to base justice on reason alone, but not with Christ, as… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
Rather than dividing the world between good and evil, the Left divided the world in terms of economics. Economic classes, not moral… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
It's the principle of it, I get a rush when I bust Some dope lines oral, that maybe somebody'll quote. That's what… — O.C Copy Share Image
“Vagrancy laws and other laws defining activities such as "mischief" and "insulting gestures" as crimes were enforced vigorously against blacks. The aggressive… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
