The chief problem in any community cursed with crime is not the punishment of the criminals, but the preventing of the young… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
When you reflect upon the significance of Dr. King to this nation, it's criminal that he hasn't had a feature film that… — David Oyelowo Copy Share Image
The maker of kitsch does not create inferior art, he is not an incompetent or a bungler, he cannot be evaluated by… — Hermann Broch Copy Share Image
I'm a Nietzschean about human nature. The bulk of humanity is exhausted and superfluous, miscreant, confused, latently criminal, opportunistic. I rely on… — Cody Wilson Copy Share Image
There has been no clearer principle of English or American constitutional law than that, in criminal cases, it is not only the… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
Mike Stanton is our preeminent aficionado and raconteur of Rhode Island’s flamboyantly criminal political follies, and The Prince of Providence is the… — Philip Gourevitch Copy Share Image
A criminal trial is like a cultural in-flight test in which society projects its own history, fears, impatience, insolence, clemency, insecurities, dreams… — Ron Franscell Copy Share Image
Ordinarily, a person leaving a courtroom with a conviction behind him would wear a somber face. But I left with a smile.… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Society, during the last hundred years, has been alternately perplexed and encouraged, respecting the two great questions -how shall the criminal and… — Dorothea Dix Copy Share Image
It's funny that they've called homosexuality a crime... At this rate, everyone will be a criminal. — Kangana Ranaut Copy Share Image
When people ask me what my dream role would be, I tell them that it's to play someone very dark. Very dark… — Jennifer Coolidge Copy Share Image
Scientists search for truth. Philosophers search for morality. A criminal trial searches for only one result: proof beyond a reasonable doubt. — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
A society should be judged not by how it treats its outstanding citizens but by how it treats its criminals. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Trial by jury in civil causes,... trial by jury in criminal causes, [and] the benefits of the writ of habeas corpus... all… — Richard Henry Lee Copy Share Image
Given my experience, I believe there are three compelling reasons why the death penalty should be replaced. (1) The criminal justice system… — George Gascon Copy Share Image
If the U.N. were to be successful in its efforts to control the Internet, countries where human rights records range from questionable… — John Doolittle Copy Share Image
States and counties routinely bear the costs associated with incarcerating undocumented criminal aliens once they enter the criminal justice system. — Michael Dean Crapo Copy Share Image
No matter how convinced we are that someone is nasty, evil or just plain criminal, if they have not been convicted of… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
The computer revolution has allowed white-collar criminals to do what the Mob would have loved to do - put a pawnshop and… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Nothing matters but the facts. Without them, the science of criminal investigation is nothing more than a guessing game. — Blake Edwards Copy Share Image
To be in America illegally is actually a civil offense and not a criminal one. — Jose Antonio Vargas Copy Share Image
Call yourself "Colonel" and declare that your fortune was left to you by Dutch burghers from the seventeenth century. Now you're a… — Luc Sante Copy Share Image
