I wanted to get punished, and I took unnecessary punishment when I was fighting. — Jake LaMotta Copy Share Image
Violence and injury enclose in their net all that do such things, and generally return upon him who began. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Let the punishment be equal with the offence. [Lat., Noxiae poena par esto.] — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
It's strange that men should take up crime when there are so many legal ways to be dishonest. — Laurence J. Peter Copy Share Image
Self-hate is a form of mental slavery that results in poverty, ignorance, and crime. — Susan L. Taylor Copy Share Image
There is no crime of which I do not deem myself capable. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Our media, which is very open and report on really everything, tend to exaggerate the crime issue...This is why one gets the… — Jacob Zuma Copy Share Image
When you're smart on crime, you start off by recognizing that both the victim, first of all, the victim, but also the… — Benjamin Jealous Copy Share Image
It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No; if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
When you criminalize something, only criminals can deal with it. When criminals deal with it, there's no recourse to law, so there's… — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
It is organized violence on top which creates individual violence at the bottom. It is the accumulated indignation against organized wrong, organized… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity. [Fr., Les hommes rougissent moins de leur crimes que de… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
There is a doctrine uttered in secret that man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his… — Plato (c 427â347 BC Copy Share Image
“Where a person has no control, he will turn to violence; either to attain control, or as an alternative to it.” — Charlie Herrick Copy Share Image
“When I got home I mixed a stiff one and stood by the open window in the living room and sipped it… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“Until you put these things to right, you're not entitled to boast of the justice meted out to thieves, for it's a… — Thomas More Copy Share Image
“Join us. Play the game. It will bring you an untold number of rewards and you will finally have some direction and… — Martin Hopkins Copy Share Image
“How often do we hear from the local diocesan people—the bishop, the communications director, the victim assistance coordinator, and others—that this abuse… — Charles L. Bailey Jr Copy Share Image
“At first—long before indeed—he had been much occupied with one question; why almost all crimes are so badly concealed and so easily… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
Many there are who, while they bear the name of Christians, are totally unacquainted with the power of their divine religion. But… — Frederick William Faber Copy Share Image
I have been advised that you have decided to move forward with your story without my interview. This, despite the fact confirmed… — David Miscavige Copy Share Image
My crime novels are highly structured. I never start out with a dead body. I start with an impossible scenario. Opening questions… — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
The one public system in which America goes out of its way to provide services to African-Americans is prison. — Nicholas Kristof Copy Share Image
Far more violence has been done in obeying the law than in breaking the law. — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
The political elite prefers to see criminals as victims in need of therapy and TLC. — Munira Mirza Copy Share Image
If someone committed a crime, they will no longer work in my administration. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
I'll never be a father; unless you got the time it's a crime don't even bother. — Wycked Copy Share Image
A criminal remains a criminal whether he uses a convict's suit or a monarch's crown. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
A government is an institution that holds a monopoly on the legitimate use of violence. — Max Weber Copy Share Image
And I, what is my crime I cannot tell, Unless it be a crime to haue lou'd too well. — Richard Crashaw Copy Share Image
Capital punishment would be more effective as a preventive measure if it were administered prior to the crime. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Art is no crime. It's every artist's responsibility to make art that is meaningful — Shirin Neshat Copy Share Image