Abuse Quote by Thomas Jefferson

People seem good while they are oppressed, but they only wish to become oppressors in their turn: life is nothing but a competition to…

— Bertrand Russell

Where aspirations outstrip opportunities, law-abiding society becomes the victim. Attitudes of contempt toward the law are forged in this crucible and form the inner…

— Robert Kennedy

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

— Maurice Broaddus

Bullies, oppressors and all men who do violence to the rights of others are guilty not only of their own crimes, but also of…

— Alessandro Manzoni

In the long run, the oppressor is also a victim. In the short run (and so far, human history has consisted only of short…

— Howard Zinn

“It is injustice to determine the brutality of an action because of the victim or the criminal.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.

— Joseph Addison

“... but in the depths of their hearts, in that true and ultimate depth which is revealed to no one, there remained the memory…

— Ivo Andrić

Crimes increase as education, opportunity, and property decrease. Whatever spreads ignorance, poverty and, discontent causes crime… Criminals have their own responsibility, their own share…

— Rutherford B. Hayes

“Systems of retributive justice work well as long as they are proportional. However, in complex societies, where the State is the arbiter of justice,…

— Daniel Waterman

What too few people mention when discussing crime is the degree to which concentrated poverty, hopelessness and despair are the chambermaids of violence and…

— Charles M. Blow

“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