Crime Quote by David Dellinger

“  If every individual be bound to society, society is equally bound to him, by a contract which from its nature equally binds both parties.…

— Cesare Beccaria

“Aren't we all in varying degrees, captives in our own personal prisons, bound by our limiting habits?”

— Ruthy Alon

“And that is the terrible myth of organized society, that everything that's done through the established system is legal -- and that word has…

— William M. Kunstler

“Writing: such has been my crime ever since I was a small child. To this day writing remains my crime. Now, although I am…

— Nawal El Saadawi

“[Prison] relieves us of the responsibility of seriously engaging with the problems of our society, especially those produced by racism and, increasingly, global capitalism.”

— Angela Y. Davis

The practice of arbitrary imprisonments have been, in all ages, the favorite and most formidable instruments of tyranny.

— Alexander Hamilton

“When the powerless seek their own sense of control, ‘crime’ is what an unjust system produces.”

— Maurice Broaddus

“Unless we press the limits, unless we stretch and expand them, unless we can accept at least the possibility that we may be wrong,…

— S.C. Vincent

the prison system, inherently unjust and inhumane, is the ultimate expression of injustice and inhumanity in the society at large.

— Jessica Mitford

“prison for writing seditious articles, and made use of”

— Adrian Vickers

“All these institutions [prisons] seemed purposely invented for the production of depravity and vice, condensed to such a degree that no other conditions could…

— Leo Tolstoy

“The prisons in the United States had long been an extreme reflection of the American system itself: the stark life differences between rich and…

— Howard Zinn