“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
Then, in my most careful handwriting, come all the details it would be a crime to forget. Lady licking Prim's cheek. My… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
“The perfect criminal, should he or she exist, would be the one who is never apprehended - indeed, the one whose crimes… — Charles Stross 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
Physical nature lies at our feet shackled with a hundred chains. What of the control of human nature? Do not point to… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
Under the antitrust laws, a man becomes a criminal from the moment he goes into business, no matter what he does. If… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Through centuries of struggle, Jews across the world have been witnesses not only against the crimes of men, but for faith in… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
In fact, we will have to give up taking things for granted, even the apparently simple things. We have to learn to… — John Desmond Bernal Copy Share Image
Is not this insanity plea becoming rather common? Is it not so common that the reader confidently expects to see it offered… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Ano pong ibig sabihin nitong preventive detention? The meaning of preventive detention is Mr. Marcos thinks that next month, you will commit… — Ninoy Aquino Copy Share Image
Not moving because things are unfamiliar-and you haven't bothered to learn how to operate on them-I think is really a crime. The… — Orit Gadiesh Copy Share Image
I'm certainly very influenced by what you would call "contemporary headline horror," stuff that is true crime or for one reason or… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
“Her recoil confirmed the disgust Grant felt inside. Who was he kidding, trying to put Vladimir and Andrei behind bars? He was… — Jennifer Lane Copy Share Image
“The critical point is that thousands of people are swept into the criminal justice system every year pursuant to the drug war… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“My colleague Roy Hazelwood, who taught the basic profiling course for several years before retiring from the Bureau in 1993, used to… — John E. Douglas 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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
“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
“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
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
[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
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
Consider the problem from the point of view of evil, evil being almost always pleasure's true and major charm; considered thus, the… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
“We may test the hypothesis that the State is largely interested in protecting itself rather than its subjects by asking: which category… — Murray N. Rothbard Copy Share Image
It should not be hard to say that Vladimir Putin's military has conducted war crimes in Aleppo because it is never acceptable… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
Western governments ... will lose the war against dealers unless efforts are switched to prevention and therapy... All penalties for drug users… — Raymond Kendall Copy Share Image