For he that but conceives a crime in thought, Contracts the danger of an actual fault. — Thomas Creech Copy Share Image
It is preferable to incur a mild punishment than to perform an onerous task. — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
Little islands are all large prisons: one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow. — Richard Burton Copy Share Image
A genius. A criminal mastermind. A millionaire. And he is only twelve years old. — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
Saddam has committed many crimes against humanity and against his own people. — Tom Cruise Copy Share Image
All of the violence that doesn't occur doesn't get reported on the news. — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
War is a lie. War is a racket. War is hell. War is waste. War is a crime. War is terrorism. War… — Coleen Rowley Copy Share Image
Funny that all of Nixon's crimes - anonymous campaign cash, wiretapping, undeclared wars - are all legal now. Discuss. — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
As long as I don't commit any crimes, you have no right to judge me except by my performance as a professional.… — Johnny Carson Copy Share Image
As long as there is unemployment, war, crime and all things that go to the infliction of man's inhumanity to man, regardless… — Rosa Parks Copy Share Image
Crime is actually less in places where people own guns. Washington, D.C., is a case in point. It has the strictest gun… — Luke Scott Copy Share Image
Too late I stayed, - forgive the crime! Unheeded flew the hours; How noiseless falls the foot of time That only treads… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In my home State of Minnesota, I have seen firsthand the importance of Byrne grants to local police in reducing crime and… — Jim Ramstad Copy Share Image
Laws against things like drugs are inhumane, and create an inhumane society and inhumane law enforcement. I know what's causing violence in… — Michael Moriarty Copy Share Image
The allegory of Adam and Eve eating of the tree of evil, and entailing upon their posterity the wrath of God and… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
I've written about illegal immigrants in the United States; I spent a year following migrant farm workers as they were harvesting. I've… — Eric Schlosser Copy Share Image
Remove justice, and what are kingdoms but gangs of criminals on a large scale?... A gang is a group of men... in… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Our emphasis here is based not only on the growing seriousness of drug-related crimes, but also on the belief that relieving our… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Take any country that has laws against hate crimes, inspiring hatred and genocide and so on. The first thing they would do… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It would be difficult, perhaps, to find the annals of a nation less stained with crimes than those of the Armenians, whose… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Wars--and what is war except crime on a mass scale?--destroy rather than produce. The vandal that destroys a window causes not only… — Adam Young Copy Share Image
“The racial dimension of mass incarceration is its most striking feature. No other country in the world imprisons so many of its… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
