You cannot undermine police authority and then complain about rising crime. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Lowered crime is a precondition to economic revival, not its consequence. — Heather Mac Donald Copy Share Image
Trying a case a second time is like eating yesterday morning's oatmeal. — Lloyd Paul Stryker Copy Share Image
An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I've written films that are violent. I'm not big on sitting and watching violence. — John Ridley Copy Share Image
Language controls how you are perceived by others, and in that sense, it is a prison. — Glenn Ligon Copy Share Image
The victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“He motioned for Elpidio to sit down after watching him pace the room in circles. Elpidio pulled out a chair and admitted,… — Carolyn M. Bowen Copy Share Image
I do not feel guilty of any war crimes, I have only done my duty as an intelligence organ, and I refuse… — Ernst Kaltenbrunner Copy Share Image
There is a violence that liberates, and a violence that enslaves; there is a violence that is moral and a violence that… — Benito Mussolini Copy Share Image
We're not as materialistic and income-tax conscious as we think. At the moment our superstitions are tucked away, but come out sometimes… — Terence Fisher Copy Share Image
For a government to declare a vice to be a crime, and to punish it as such, is an attempt to falsify… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
We need to do a better job identifying what's contributing to the crime and making sure we hold people accountable in a… — Chesa Boudin Copy Share Image
“Life in a prison cell may well be compared to Advent; one waits, hopes, and does this, that, or the other -… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
There is no question that chemical weapons attacks are a heinous abuse of humanity and power. But to assume that military strikes… — Basmah bint Saud Copy Share Image
Guilt, though it may attain temporal splendor, can never confer real happiness; the evil consequences of our crimes long survive their commission,… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
The average detective story is probably no worse than the average novel, but you never see the average novel. It doesn't get… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Toast was a pointless invention from the Dark Ages. Toast was an implement of torture that caused all those subjected to it… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“This felt like being stalked as prey, and he hated that his relationship with Dagger was being exploited for the entertainment of… — Ann Lister Copy Share Image
Cruise passengers can be blinded to the very real perils of the sea by ship operators unwilling to interrupt the party for… — Chris Shays Copy Share Image
“Black-on-black crime’ is jargon, violence to language, which vanishes the men who engineered the covenants, who fixed the loans, who planned the… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“Know this, sivamet-this child will be mine. I will take Vadim's blood from you and exchange it for mine. Eventually, over time,… — Christine Feehan Copy Share Image
Talk about the flag or drugs or crime (never about race or class or justice) and follow the yellow brick road to… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
Rape is a more heinous crime than murder since the rape victim dies throughout the period she lives. — Amit Abraham Copy Share Image
No man was ever more than about nine meals away from crime or suicide. — Eric Sevareid Copy Share Image
Sloth, if it has prevented many crimes, has also smothered many virtues. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
God is a being who gives everything but punishment in over measure. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Hate radio, hate speech, hate groups, hate crimes really don't fit in, in the America that we know today. — Kweisi Mfume Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think 'The Wire' said it all, and I might as well not write any more crime novels. — George Pelecanos Copy Share Image
What these memos do is they make legal acts that were criminal prior to these memos. — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“As long as we do violence to other animals, we’ll keep on doing violence to ourselves.” — Paul Russell Copy Share Image
People always think about what prison is. What prison really is - it's not a physical challenge, it's mental. — Hill Harper Copy Share Image
“There is always a unique atmosphere in the car when you drive through the City with a dead body in the back.” — Steen Langstrup Copy Share Image
In a colony constituted like that of New South Wales, the proportion of crime must of course be great. — Charles Sturt Copy Share Image
“Prisons are built to break men, and when men are broken society has consummated its revenge” — Jan Valtin Copy Share Image
