“At what point did you begin to adapt well in prison?” “Actually, it was after I read Shakespeare’s Hamlet.” — Timothy M. Burke Copy Share Image
“Believing that one person can improve another person’s life through force is a mistake. Violence” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“We thought we were invincible and Dominic proved us all wrong,” - Jesse Carlisle” — Nina D'Angelo Copy Share Image
“Fear. “The greatest prison people live in is the fear of what other people think.” —David Icke” — Erik Myers Copy Share Image
“Even a ship can become a prison if all you see around you are bars.” — Sabrina Jeffries Copy Share Image
“When God wants to punish us, he gives us just ourselves to care for.” — Jonathan Odell Copy Share Image
Of the three official objects of our prison system: vengeance, deterrence, and reformation of the criminal, only one is achieved; and that… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Over the course of my career, which is about 40 years, I've visited plenty of prisons and I know what they're like. — Kate Mulgrew Copy Share Image
I'm a fast writer, and crime novels are easy to do. It's much harder to write a 1,000 word article, where everything… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I read all the Agatha Christies when I was younger and like Sherlock Holmes. Crime fiction has always fascinated me, but I'll… — Emilia Fox Copy Share Image
If we go to school to learn, and knowledge is power and power is corrupt and corruption is crime and crime doesn't… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is not according to my mode of doing things, to bring a suit against a man that I have the power… — Cornelius Vanderbilt Copy Share Image
The Queen has been guillotined, accused of crimes beyond imagining. Last night she appeared to me in a dream, handing me her… — Sandra Gulland Copy Share Image
Violence wounds the body and it wounds the soul. Of the predator. Of the prey. Of the mourners. Of collective humanity. It… — Kathy Reichs Copy Share Image
You must understand, the leading Bolsheviks who took over Russia were not Russians. They hated Russians. They hated Christians. Driven by ethnic… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
People are just afraid of things too much … Sure, evil exists, extremism exists. Somebody could commit a hate crime and hurt… — Frank Ocean Copy Share Image
No matter how one approaches the figures, one is forced to the rather startling conclusion that the use of firearms in crime… — Colin Greenwood Copy Share Image
Take Germany and Japan, both defeated in the Second World War. Germany has acknowledged its monstrous crimes to a certain extent, has… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, the punishment I disliked the most was writing sentences. My mother loved to make me record my… — Clay Aiken Copy Share Image
“He reasoned, even as a young man, that traditions may linger as he walked though the oracles of time. In later years… — Andrew Coster Copy Share Image
The great brainwave of the inventors of Christianity: "God is love!" And then? What does it change? You may always preach a… — Francois Cavanna Copy Share Image
“When a society establishes criminals-by-right and looters-by-law, men who use force to seize the wealth of disarmed victims, then money becomes its… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The man who coerces another not to eat fish commits more violence than he who eats it. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Or is it the mind state that's ill, creating crime rates to fill the new prisons the build — Talib Kweli Copy Share Image
The Syrian civil war is a "crime initiated by the United States and the Zionist regime, Israel." — Ali Khamenei Copy Share Image
I want to be a figure for prison reform. I think that the criminal justice system is rotten. — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
"Criminal justice" was a term she found more apt than it was meant to be. — Barbara Neely Copy Share Image
“Henry was now very annoyed; he had dug himself into a hole so deep that they didn’t make a rope long enough.” — Andrew Barrett Copy Share Image
For this crime we should beg the souls of the dead and their families for forgiveness, — Aleksander Kwasniewski Copy Share Image
No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, there can never be good for the bee which is bad for… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Absolutely nothing should stand in the way of a murder investigation, however lowly the victim.” — Mark Ellis Copy Share Image
“I'm relaxed, Belk. I call it Zen and the art of not giving a shit.” — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
I'll hit anyone who's seriously threatening my life... that's what happened, and that's what sent me to prison. — Jim Goad Copy Share Image
I think crime is probably driven more by morality than anything else. — Sarah Huckabee Sanders Copy Share Image
“All that interior violence and complication to defend themselves from the very tenderness.” — Susana Fortes Copy Share Image
Sunday School: A prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Justice doesn't mean the bad guy goes to jail, it just means that someone pays for the crime. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
