The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
For too long, the victims of crime have been the forgotten persons of our criminal justice system. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Violence and disrespect for your country are going to get you nowhere. — Joey Heatherton Copy Share Image
“If poets have to be in some way criminals, she thinks, nowadays criminals could try being poets.” — Joseph McElroy Copy Share Image
You have an electorate [in America] that wants to see people who are not tough on crime. — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
Some go to prison for stealing, and others for believing that a better system can be provided and maintained than one that… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
Recorded history is largely an account of the crimes and disasters committed by banal little men at the levers of imperial machines. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Writing about race and crime was not new territory for me. But it can be treacherous. So here are my rules: No… — Colin Flaherty Copy Share Image
When I was writing 'The Luminaries,' I read a lot of crime novels because I wanted to figure out which ones made… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
I have heard that it was the perfection of the administration of criminal justice to take care that the punishment should come… — Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon Copy Share Image
We have the crime of the century every six months. So for people like me who enjoy, you know, taking these stories… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
Sadly, every year hundreds of children are victimized by a convicted sexual offender. Convicted predators should be put in prison where they… — Jim Costa Copy Share Image
What bothered me most was their lack of style. I learned early that class is universally admired. Almost any fault, sin or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Clemenza's overriding responsibility is to his family. He takes a moment out of his routine madness to remember that he had promised… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
“Secret ceremonies in which malevolent men and women cloaked in hooded robes, hiding behind painted faces and chanting demonic incantations while inflicting… — Judy Byington Copy Share Image
“Some guys have it real fucked up in prison, real hard. Some guys will be doing somebody's laundry. Some guys will be… — Suge Knight Copy Share Image
I believe that every human being is potentially capable within his 'limits' of fully 'realizing' his potentialities; that this, his being cheated… — James Agee Copy Share Image
Celtic civilization was tribal, but by no means savage or uncultivated. People who regarded the theft of a harp from a bard… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
“Curiously, growing Papaver somniferum in America is legal—unless, that is, it is done in the knowledge that you are growing a drug,… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
...the crimes of violence committed for selfish, personal motives are historically insignificant compared to those committed ad majorem gloriam Dei, out of… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
I'm just tired of hearing about God all the time. What has He got to do with anything?... I'm not going to… — Lorraine Hansberry Copy Share Image
Some explanations of a crime are not explanations: they're part of the crime. — Olavo de Carvalho Copy Share Image
I want the violence among young people in this country to stop - particularly gang violence. — Jim Brown Copy Share Image
This is what happens in prisons I think you're not giving the prisoners the credit for how ingenious they are. — Philip Davies Copy Share Image
Great crimes come never singly; they are linked To sins that went before. — Jean Racine Copy Share Image
My random acts of violence weren't random. They were premeditated. — Christopher Titus Copy Share Image
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