“Cremation has become the most popular form of burial in the United States... People used to want a big, thick granite stone, their names carved into with a chisel. I was here dammit! Cremation is like you're trying to cover up a crime. Burn the body. Scatter the ashes around. As far as anyone's concerned this whole thing never happened.” PeopleWantTryingStatesWholeBodyBigsFormUsedNamesUnitedUnited StatesHappenedCrimeLike YouConcernedStonesThickAshesCover UpsBurialGraniteChiselsCremation Author:Jerry Seinfeld
“People are going to move in and out of their office, and they're going to move up or get fired. All kinds of things happen like that, in real life. And, we're always going to have crime, unfortunately. If we didn't, then I wouldn't have a new show.” PeopleIfsKindRealShowsHappensMovingCrimeOfficeThings HappenReal LifeAll Kinds Author:Angie Harmon
“Saddam Hussein has been brutal against his people, but when he was committing those crimes, the international community did not come to the rescue of the Iraqis.” PeopleHas BeensCommunityCrimeInternationalRescueBrutalSaddamHusseinInternational Community Author:Bianca Jagger
“I like to deal with things I heard about, ... People are always getting their house broken into around the holidays. That's when the crime rate goes up.” PeopleHouseDealsHeardCrimeBrokenRateHolidayCrime Rates Author:Ice Cube
“Whatever the political injustices are that created an environment that brought this about, it was not Americans who flew those planes into those buildings. And we should remember that. The crimes against humanity were perpetrated by people who were Arab Muslims.” PeopleShouldRememberPoliticalHumanityEnvironmentCrimeBuildingInjusticePlanesFlewCrimes Against Humanity Author:Robert Fisk
“I want to compliment the fraternity and sorority organizations for taking the time to meet with us and then removing their support from the legislation that would have been so counterproductive for a goal that I think we all share - and that is making campuses safer and the successful prosecution of people who commit serious crimes. So, good on them that they backed off, and we don't have to fight them.” PeopleThinkingWantHas BeensFightingGoalSupportSuccessfulShareCrimeSeriousOrganizationCommitComplimentLegislationCampusFraternityProsecutionCounterproductiveSorority Author:Claire McCaskill
“If you're a beautiful Caucasian woman, and you commit a heinous crime, it's like people don't want to acknowledge the reality of your actions.” PeopleIfsWantRealityActionBeautifulCrimeCommitAcknowledgeCaucasianHeinous Crimes Author:Alissa Nutting
“I'm serious. I've got to get people to realize that the government is full of it. Republicans and Democrats want to argue over stuff that's not important, like gay marriage or the war in Iraq or illegal immigration... When I run - if I run - we're going to talk about real issues like improving our schools, cleaning up our neighborhoods of drugs and crime and making Alabama a better place for all people.” PeopleIfsWantImportantWarRealGovernmentRunningSchoolStuffRealizingIssuesCrimeSeriousRepublicanGayDrugDemocratIraqArguingImmigrationNeighborhoodIllegalImprovingBetter PlaceCleaningGay MarriageAlabamaIllegal ImmigrationCleaning Up Author:Charles Barkley
“The worst crime I could think of would be to pull people off by faking it, pretending as if I'm having 100% fun.” PeopleIfsThinkingWould BeFunWorstCrimePretendingFaking It Author:Kurt Cobain
“Sometimes the facts of the crime are so distracting - there's been some tragic murder or horrific incident, and people aren't required to think as carefully and thoughtfully, and directly, about this legacy of racial inequality and structural poverty. And what it's contributing to these wrongful convictions.” PeopleThinkingSometimesFactsPovertyCrimeMurderConvictionInequalityLegacyTragicIncidentsContributingHorrific Author:Bryan Stevenson
“People are sometimes losing their homes before being convicted of a crime, or their cash or their cars.” PeopleSometimesHomeCarCrimeLosingCash Author:Sarah Stillman
“It's an unusual way to write a crime novel, to have these lingering, fairly large story points, but it's something I knew I had to do if I wanted to write a sequel...but, you know, people still have to read and enjoy this book, or it's a moot point.” PeopleIfsKnowsWayWritingStillsBookStoriesWantedEnjoyNovelCrimeUnusualSequelsLingeringCrime Novels Author:Tod Goldberg
“Focusing on being a person instead of an Asian or an [anything] seems to promote a worldview that encourages people to treat others based on what each person has specifically done in their life, which seems like it would reduce such things as war, racism, unfairness, "hate crimes," [other things most people feel aversion toward].” PeopleFeelsPersonsWarDoneSeemsHateCrimeRacismTreatsAsianWorldviewHate CrimeAversionUnfairness Author:Tao Lin
“The people who died in the Twin Towers in that terrible crime mattered. The people who were bombed to death in dusty villages in Afghanistan didn't matter, even though it now seems that their numbers were greater. The people who will die in Iraq don't matter.” PeopleMatterSeemsDiesNumbersGreaterCrimeTerribleDiedIraqVillageAfghanistanTwinsTowersTwin Towers Author:John Pilger
“There's so much beauty in Africa, but it's not endless. We have to prevent these crimes and these awful, awful killings. I just hope people pay attention to it.” PeoplePayAttentionCrimeKillingEndlessAwfulPay Attention Author:Veronika Varekova
“Lagos was a city that had been turned against itself. There was a bridge that became the perfect trap for crimes, which began with nails being scattered to cause flat tyres. If the driver stopped, the car would be dismantled in 20 minutes and the parts thrown overboard [to people waiting below]. The system had turned into a kind of destructive device that could be used against people. That was the narrative.” PeopleIfsKindWould BeUsedCausesWaitingPerfectCitiesMinutesCarCrimeNarrativeBridgesDestructiveThrownFlatsDevicesDriversNailsTrapsOverboardTyres Author:Rem Koolhaas
“More people are realising that ISIL's not a caliphate. It's a crime ring.” PeopleCrimeRingsRealisingIsil Author:Barack Obama
“It's just this long overdue. These people [ex-Nazi brought to trial] should be grateful to the apathy that exists there that prevented them from being brought to trial earlier. All of the people that they committed crimes against had their lives snuffed out, some of them at very young ages. Some of them never had a chance to get married and have children.” PeopleShouldChildrenLongAgeYoungChanceCrimeMarriedGratefulCommittedTrialsApathyBe GratefulNaziExesYoung AgeOverdue Author:Marvin Hier
“There's confusional arousals, there are states in deeper sleep that can happen where people will go and they'll disappear and they'll take on some other persona. They'll commit some crime, but it's all when they are in a very deep stage of sleep. So you really need to have a very thorough evaluation.” PeopleNeedsStatesHappensSleepStageCrimeDeeperDisappearCommitPersonaThoroughVery DeepEvaluationArousal Author:Shelby Harris
“It doesn't hurt me on a personal level, but it hurts me on a larger level of like, why are people so stupid? Why do we have to go through these unnecessary exercises. Fight crime, don't fight me. If you really want to make a difference don't fight me or Fugazi.” PeopleIfsWantFightingDifferencesHurtLevelsCrimeStupidExerciseMaking A DifferenceUnnecessaryIt HurtsHurt Me Author:Ian MacKaye
“Enforcement priorities developed by my administration are not affected by this ruling. This means that the people who might have benefited from the expanded deferred action policies, long-term residents raising children who are Americans or legal residents, they will remain low priorities for enforcement, as long as you have not committed a crime, our limited immigration enforcement resources are not focused on you.” PeopleMeanChildrenLongMightActionTermCrimePolicyLowsResourcesCommittedFocusedPrioritiesImmigrationAdministrationLong TermAffectedEnforcementRulingRaising ChildrenResidents Author:Barack Obama
“If you hit minorities they're gonna blame conservatives, Second Amendment, guns, and the terrorists won't get their due credit. So from now on acts of terror, only hit white people, because hate crimes against them are permitted, and the media will play it up.” PeopleIfsPlayHateWhiteMediaCrimeGunBlameTerrorCreditDuesTerroristMinoritiesAmendmentsHate CrimeSecond AmendmentActs Of Terror Author:Rush Limbaugh
“White people deserve to be hit, deserve to be the victims of crime and acts of terror because they have for so long been the unfair, unjust, immoral majority throughout most of the nations that are imbued with Western civilization. If you think that’s an exaggeration, it isn’t. That is exactly how the Democrat Party of today and the American left looks at things.” PeopleIfsThinkingLooksLongTodayLeftNationsWhitePartyCrimeCivilizationDeserveVictimMajorityDemocratWesternTerrorUnfairUnjustImmoralExaggerationWestern CivilizationActs Of Terror Author:Rush Limbaugh
“It's impossible for minorities, impossible for people of color to be ever guilty of hate crimes. Because their only crimes are justified. Their crimes are justifiable. It’s retribution and payback for years and decades and maybe even centuries of oppressive behavior at the hands of the white majority.” PeopleYearsHandsHateWhiteImpossibleCenturyCrimeColorBehaviorMajorityDecadesGuiltyMinoritiesJustifiedHate CrimeRetributionPayback Author:Rush Limbaugh
“There's no doubt in my mind, though, that the Iraqi people would be better off with a different leader who did not waste their oil on weapons, as opposed to education, as opposed to healthcare, as opposed to food, as opposed to roads, as opposed to clean water. It is really sinful, a crime, what Saddam Hussein has done with the wealth of the Iraqi people over the last 30 years.” PeopleYearsMindDifferentDoneWould BeLastsWaterWealthLeaderDoubtCrimeWasteWeaponsCleanOilNo DoubtHealthcareSaddamBetter OffHusseinClean Water Author:Colin Powell
“[As in the case of] alcohol prohibition, illegality has driven organized crime, sent countless people to jail, and killed many thousands. Repression does not work.” PeopleDoeCasesCrimeAlcoholDrivenOrganizedJailRepressionProhibitionOrganized Crime Author:Sam Branson
“I think it is now widely understood that the so-called "War on Drugs" has largely been a failure. Too many people have developed criminal records for smoking marijuana. Too many people have gone to jail for nonviolent crimes. So I think it's important for us to rethink the war on drugs.” PeopleThinkingImportantWarGoneRecordsCrimeDrugUnderstoodCriminalsSmokingJailMarijuanaWar On Drugs Author:Bernie Sanders
“Hard to imagine 40 years ago people could be convicted of a crime, fined, sent to prison for using the most common forms of birth control.” PeopleYearsHardFormCommonImagineCrimeBirthYears AgoPrisonBirth Control Author:Dick Durbin
“I have thought about this issue of abortion time and again. It is not an easy issue for most people. I came to believe over the years that a woman should be able to make this agonizing decision with her doctor and her family and her conscience, and that we should be very careful that we don't make that decision a crime except in the most extreme circumstances.” PeopleShouldYearsBelieveAbleEasyDecisionIssuesCrimeCircumstancesConscienceDoctorsCarefulExtremesAbortionAgonizing Author:Dick Durbin
“We're not hearing any Hollywood people talk about the Crime Family Foundation. We're not talking about any specific details about Hillary Clinton's work on the foundation.” PeopleTalkingCrimeHollywoodFoundationClintonDetailsHearingNot Talking Author:Rush Limbaugh
“We are all going to die. When it happens in such a drastic, inhuman way, which we've been seeing in Africa, this is crime on its highest level. It is affecting not only the security of the national parks, it is affecting the people in communities that live around the national parks. In terms of security for wildlife and our society, it's an incredibly alarming situation, and we need to address that.” PeopleWayNeedsHappensDiesTermCommunityLevelsSituationSeeingSecurityCrimeHighestParksAddressesOur SocietyWildlifeInhumanNational ParksDrastic Author:Veronika Varekova
“In my view, nobody is really effective in tackling those organized crime networks that are making connections from Africa to Asia to fund and facilitate the poaching of massive volumes of ivory, and then selling it on the Asian market. Very few people have tried globally to tackle that serious organized crime threat that is also linked to militia groups. That needs to change. You need to bring the full weight of government attention to dealing with that.” PeopleNeedsGovernmentViewsAttentionGroupsCrimeSeriousConnectionsWeightThreatSellingOrganizedFundMassiveVolumeAsiaLinkedAsianNeed A ChangeFacilitateMilitiaIvoryTacklingOrganized CrimePoaching Author:Allen Crawford
“I think crime is a huge issue for people. If you were living in the poorest state, and you've got drug dealers at the end of the street, and your life's in misery, and you're afraid of your kids going out the door. I mean, the job of progressive politicians is to do something about that.” PeopleIfsThinkingMeanEndsStatesKidsJobsIssuesDoorsStreetsCrimeHugePoliticianDrugMiseryProgressiveGoing OutPoorestDealerDrug Dealers Author:Tony Blair
“I think that when you have any folks in our population who live under the threat of violence, who live under the threat of crime, who don't have the opportunity that others have because the schools in our urban areas are a dreaded failure, because of the positions that Hillary Clinton has taken and the people who support her, that I think any candidate should speak out to say that that type of thing is unacceptable.” PeopleThinkingShouldSchoolOpportunitySpeakSupportTakenViolenceCrimePositionTypeAreasThreatClintonFolksPopulationCandidatesUrbanSpeaks OutUrban Areas Author:Chris Christie
“The idea will be to find of focus on crime and issues where there`s not a lot of - where Donald Trump can kind of get people`s emotions.” PeopleKindIdeasEmotionIssuesFocusCrimeTrump Author:Michelle Goldberg
“If the price of the drug people want to use is through the roof, well then they're going to have to commit crimes to get the money to get the drug. You don't see any crimes committed over a pack of cigarettes or a bottle of beer, do you?” PeopleIfsWantWellsUseCrimeDrugCommittedCommitBeerBottlesCigaretteRoofPacks Author:Jesse Ventura
“The war on drugs causes other supplemental crimes to take place because of the original illegality of it. But then again, that's the other reason that they're fighting it is the corporate prisons they have now. Because they've privatized all our prisons, corporations have to make money, and the only way they can make money is, I believe, the prisons have to be at least 80-90 percent full. That's why the United States - which is home of the brave, land of the free - we have more people in prison than any other country in the world.” PeopleWorldWayBelieveWarCountryStatesReasonHomeFightingI BelieveCausesUnitedUnited StatesLandCrimeDrugPercentOriginalsPrisonBraveMaking MoneyCorporateCorporationsOther CountriesWar On DrugsLand Of The Free Author:Jesse Ventura
“We've seen a shift where people were often initially reluctant to call things terrorism until they knew for sure. And now they start out assuming it's terrorism and then work backwards and say it may or may not have been terrorism. And it does matter tremendously because of the resources involved. If it's a crime that's seen as a disturbed individual, then local police will handle it. If it's a crime that's seen as someone who might be linked to an international terrorist group, you get the vast federal U.S. national security bureaucracy as well as tremendous political attention.” PeopleIfsWellsMayDoeHas BeensMatterMightPoliticalIndividualAttentionGroupsSecurityCrimeInvolvedResourcesPoliceAssumingInternationalTerrorismTerroristHandleLocalsBackwardsNational SecurityBureaucracyLinkedDisturbedReluctantTerrorist Groups Author:Daniel Byman
“The premature migration of very large numbers of people from rural areas to urban areas can give rise to a lot of strains to the urban infrastructure, which can also create problems of crime - law-and-order problems.” PeopleGivingProblemLawOrderNumbersCrimeAreasUrbanStrainInfrastructureLarge NumbersMigrationLaw And OrderPrematureRural AreasUrban Areas Author:Manmohan Singh
“There's a very complex connection between crime and addiction, because a lot of people are committing crime to either fuel their drug habit, which they're going to do anyway, whether it's legal or not, or under the influence of drugs, which they're going to do more, if it's legal.” PeopleIfsInfluenceCrimeHabitDrugConnectionsComplexesAddictionFuelCommitting Crimes Author:Kevin Sabet
“Crimes are being committed 24/7, 365 days a year. My show aired one hour a day, and then a repeat at 2 a.m. So I am launching a website, a crime-fighting website, a community. I will be writing for the website and curating content. Also, we'll have social media, Facebook Live, and a podcast. I'm really excited about it, and I believe we will help people - find missing people, solve unsolved homicides.” PeopleWritingYearsBelieveHelpingShowsFightingI BelieveSocialCommunityHoursMediaMissingCrimeCommittedExcitedSocial MediaSolveRepeatsWebsiteOne HourHomicideLaunching Author:Nancy Grace
“The way the Statute of Rome is written, responsibility for war crimes can be taken all the way up the chain of command. This is the sort of investigation that some people who live in Fairyland might like to undertake, but which bears no relationship at all to conditions in the real world.” PeopleWorldWayWarRealMightResponsibilityTakenWrittenConditionsCrimeBearsCommandChainsReal WorldRomeInvestigationStatutesWar CrimesChain Of Command Author:John Bolton
“There was a really monstrous and almost literal genocide in the Mayan area, specifically under Ríos Montt. By now it has been recognized somewhat by Guatemalan society. In fact, Montt was under trial for some crimes. But the U.S. prohibits people from fleeing here.” PeopleHas BeensFactsCrimeAreasTrialsGenocideMonstrousLiteralFleeing Author:Noam Chomsky
“We've seen a kind of Donald Trump supporter on steroids, like the hate-crime people. Those people, I don't want to see, like anyone violent or carrying a gun or anything like that. But I won't know if they disagree with me unless they decide to heckle.” PeopleIfsKnowsWantKindHateCrimeTrumpGunViolentDisagreeSupporterHate CrimeSteroid Author:Jen Kirkman
“I don't do jokes about elections so that's probably why it went okay for me, except for the crazy people that are hate-crime people.” PeopleHateCrazyCrimeJokesOkayElectionHate CrimeCrazy People Author:Jen Kirkman
“You have an electorate [in America] that wants to see people who are not tough on crime.” PeopleWantAmericaCrimeToughElectorate Author:Nat Hentoff
“If only evil things are done by evil people... Life would be then safe, morally elevated, cozy - we know how to spot evil people and what to do with them to pay for their crimes.” PeopleIfsKnowsDoneWould BeEvilPayKnow HowCrimeSafeSpotsEvil PeopleCozyEvil Things Author:Zygmunt Bauman
“Using the language of heroism, calling Daniel Ellsberg a hero, and calling the other people who made great sacrifices heroes - even though what they have done is heroic - is to distinguish them from the civic duty they performed, and excuses the rest of us from the same civic duty to speak out when we see something wrong, when we witness our government engaging in serious crimes, abusing power, engaging in massive historic violations of the Constitution of the United States. We have to speak out or we are party to that bad action.” PeopleMadeStatesDoneGovernmentActionSpeakLanguageUnitedPartyUnited StatesSacrificeCrimeSeriousDutyHeroCallingConstitutionExcuseWitnessMassiveHeroicHeroismEngagingHistoricViolationCivicsSpeaks OutCivic DutyConstitution Of The United StatesGreat SacrificeBad Actions Author:Edward Snowden
“The law enforcement authorities have got a fairly good idea of who are these principal criminals. Who are the people, for instance, who receive the cell phones? When a young person goes and snatches a cell phone, there's someone who is sitting somewhere who receives this. Lots of this kind of crime.” PeopleKindPersonsIdeasLawYoungCrimeAuthoritySittingPhonesCriminalsInstanceCellsGood IdeasPrincipalLaw EnforcementEnforcementCell Phone Author:Thabo Mbeki
“That it is not enough to catch a criminal and get them convicted and so on, because the victim remains with the consequences of the crime. Something needs to be done. Let's complete that process, interact with civil society about this, so that we will specify what is it that we do in the context of that Charter that would then make this positive impact on people who might have been affected by crime.” PeopleNeedsHas BeensDoneEnoughMightProcessCrimeConsequenceVictimRemainsImpactCriminalsAffectedMight Have BeenCivil SocietyCharterPositive Impact Author:Thabo Mbeki