Crime Quote by David Burr Gerrard Download Open image ““Accepting punishment – that would be revolutionary.”” — David Burr Gerrard ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Crime Punishment
“I think people feel a kind of need for punishment when they can no longer accept their own actions.” — Jo Nesbø Copy Share Image
“The anarchy that threatens a degrading society is not its punishment, but its remedy.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Copy Share Image
“People also felt that a great crime had been committed, yet there was not going to be a great punishment.” — Bethany McLean Copy Share Image
“Distrust all those in whom the urge to punish is strong.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“How can a prisoner understand their punishment to have been worthwhile to anyone, when it's dealt in a way so offhand and indifferent?” — Piper Kerman Copy Share Image
“we are waiting and waiting and doing nothing, until it is too late, and they commit crimes so serious that all society wants to… — Edward Humes Copy Share Image
“If we punished only the crimes we could prove, we would not enjoy the pleasure of dragging our fellow human beings to the scaffold… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
“If he has a conscience he will suffer for his mistake. That will be punishment as well as the prison.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“we are most often rewarded for punishing others, and punished for rewarding.” — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
“Thinking, like other drugs, can be a useful distraction from pain, as long as it's managed and doesn't become an addiction.” — David Burr Gerrard Copy Share Image
“You could fling open every closet of regret and desire in yourself and the people you loved, and still there would be one closet… — David Burr Gerrard Copy Share Image
“There was too much protection in a drone, protection that was also a denial of one’s own humanity, very much like the protection offered… — David Burr Gerrard Copy Share Image
“To talk about something is the first step toward invading it.” — David Burr Gerrard Copy Share Image
“That was what maturity was: accepting things. The more things you accepted, the more mature you were.” — David Burr Gerrard Copy Share Image
“I had always thought that vaginas, with their flaps and folds, looked somehow unfinished.” — David Burr Gerrard Copy Share Image
“Genocide, as many have noted, is a form of community-building.” — David Burr Gerrard Copy Share Image
“All across the region the sexual revolution would arrive by tank.” — David Burr Gerrard Copy Share Image
“Subtle! Subtlety is bourgeois. Brecht us that when he popped drama’s cherry. He fucked drama until it stopped being subtle, like a lady, and… — David Burr Gerrard Copy Share Image
“The epiphany machine will not discover anything about you that you do not, in some way, already know. But think for a moment about… — David Burr Gerrard Copy Share Image
“Don’t go to the protest. Go out and get laid. Unless you’re going to the protest to get laid.” — David Burr Gerrard Copy Share Image
“Arthur, do you think the fall of the Wall means anything? Do you think that this means that even one fewer body will burn?” — David Burr Gerrard Copy Share Image
“Crime and punishment can be summed up in two classifications: there are bad people and there are people who get into bad situations. The… — Johnnie Dent Jr Copy Share Image
With 'Pretty Girls,' I saw the opportunity to talk not just about crime but what crime leaves behind. — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
“The jailers, the Court, everyone in that building – it wasn’t about justice; it was about obedience and intimidation…about maintaining order. Fear accomplished that… — Jay Allan Copy Share Image
Taking notes while watching Forensic Files and Snapped. I don't want to make the same mistakes the criminals do! ;) — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, powerlines, and right-angled… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Nations sometimes flourish by denying the crimes that brought them into being. Only when the original invasion, occupation, extermination or usurpation has been safely… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
“a crime to fell a tree and light it on fire, where coals of hardened shit warmed and stunk up homes,” — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
A great read; an exciting, frightening account of organized crime today. But like all important works of nonfiction, it goes further… This book is… — Le Ly Hayslip Copy Share Image
If it comes to a question of law, the charges they brought against me - the Espionage Act - is called the quintessential political… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
