Crime Quote by Molly Ivins Download Open image “It's a monstrous idea to put people in prison and keep them there.” — Molly Ivins ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Crime Idea Keep People Prison Them
Most prisons in this country are in the middle of nowhere, which makes it much easier for us all to throw those people away.… — W. Kamau Bell Copy Share Image
I know what it's like to be ignored, and I think that is the big problem about the prison system: These people are being… — Lee Tergesen Copy Share Image
Prison is not meant to be comfortable. It's not meant to be somewhere anyone would ever want to go back to. — Chris Grayling Copy Share Image
All prisons that have existed in our society to date put people away as no human being should ever be put away. — Barbara Deming Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, prisons try very hard to make us inhuman and unreal by denying our image, and thus our existence, to the rest of the… — Chelsea Manning Copy Share Image
It is a huge asset to law and order that serious or persistent criminals should be taken out of the society on which they… — Ann Widdecombe Copy Share Image
Some prison officials are determined to keep the people they lock in cages as ignorant as possible about the racial, social, and political forces… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Let us be clear. Prison works. It ensures that we are protected from murderers, muggers and rapists, and it makes many who are tempted… — Michael Howard Copy Share Image
Why on earth would free people remain prisoners in a cage of absurd laws and regulation, with rigid constraints that humiliate the true needs… — Matteo Salvini Copy Share Image
Most of us think prison is a place where bad people go - which is what I thought for a long time - until… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
Because it would be too agonizing to cope with the possibility that anyone, including our selves, could become a prisoner, we tend to think… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
Preemptive war is what Israel did in '67 with Arab armies on its borders. — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
The idols of one's adolescence tend to endure - you never forget how you worshipped them. — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
How the American right managed to convince itself that the programs to alleviate poverty are responsible for the consequences of poverty will someday be… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
To mistake Midland for the volk heartland is the West Texas equivalent of assuming that Greenwich, Connecticut, is Levittown. — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
Even for southerners, Arkansans are amazingly friendly and extend hospitality to all strangers with astonishing openness. You couldn't find a pretension in that state… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
It's hard to convince people that you're killing them for their own good. — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
the pyramids were built for pharaohs on the happy theory that they could take their stuff with them. Versailles was built for kings on… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
Any nation that can survive what we have lately in the way of government, is on the high road to permanent glory. — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
I think provincialism is an endemic characteristic with mankind, I think everybody everywhere is provincial, but it is particularly striking with Texans, and we… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
During a recent panel on the numerous failures of American journalism, I proposed that almost all stories about government should begin: “Look out! They're… — Molly Ivins 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
