“The freedom-hating gun-grabbers do not care about reducing crime or saving lives, or they wouldn't be fighting for more gun-free zones where the most innocent lives are always slaughtered. Those squawking the loudest for banning guns from we the people will not get rid of their we-the-people tax-dollar-paid armed security guards.” PeopleCareHateFightingSecurityCrimeTaxesGunPaidDollarsInnocentSavingZoneReducingSave A LifeTax DollarsSecurity GuardsInnocent Life Author:Ted Nugent
“When I started to get involved in the crime issue, people said, "it's a local issue." I said, "No, there are lots of ways the federal government can help." And the best way the federal government can help, and did in the Crime Bill, is to find programs that work around the country and help them spread.” PeopleWaySaidCountryHelpingGovernmentIssuesCrimeInvolvedProgramBillsSpreadLocalsBest WayFederal GovernmentGet Involved Author:Charles Schumer
“People are angry and dispirited about government because of a failure to do something about crime.” PeopleGovernmentCrimeAngry Author:Charles Schumer
“Crime can be a unifying argument - not an argument that people use as a code for us vs. them.” PeopleUseCrimeArgumentCodeUnifying Author:Charles Schumer
“I'm not a racist.It would had also go for Swedish people, for Australian people.Of course that would apply with anybody for any dual nationality, but the mere fact would be the reality because we have overrepresentation of often Moroccan people and other people from Islamic background in a crime that they would be stripped of the Dutch nationality and sent away.” PeopleFactsRealityWould BeCoursesCrimeMereBackgroundsIslamicRacistAustralianNationalityDutchSwedish Author:Geert Wilders
“We also have a lot of people who are not Dutch, and who are in Holland as a guest, whether they are asylum seekers or others. I believe if you commit a crime you overstay your welcome, if we could extradite you.” PeopleIfsBelieveI BelieveCrimeCommitWelcomeGuestsSeekersDutchAsylumsHollandAsylum Seekers Author:Geert Wilders
“I think the International Criminal Court could be a threat to American security interests, because the prosecutor of the court has enormous discretion in going after war crimes. And 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.” PeopleThinkingWorldWayWarRealMightInterestResponsibilityTakenWrittenConditionsSecurityCrimeBearsCourtThreatInternationalCriminalsEnormousCommandChainsReal WorldRomeInvestigationDiscretionProsecutorStatutesWar CrimesChain Of Command Author:John Bolton
“People do peculiar things in life and they do for whatever reason but I think one of the greatest crimes in life is when you lie.” PeopleThinkingReasonLife IsLyingCrimePeculiarThings In Life Author:Marco Pierre White
“Why did the people think [Vietnam war] was fundamentally wrong and immoral? The guys who ran the polls, John E. Rielly, a professor at the University of Chicago, a liberal professor, he said what that means is that people thought too many Americans had being killed. Another possibility is they didn't like the fact that we were carrying out the worst crime since the Second World War. But that's so inconceivable that wasn't even offered as a possible reason.” PeopleThinkingWorldMeanSaidWarReasonFactsGuyWorstCrimePossibilityUniversityRanWar Of The WorldsChicagoProfessorsVietnamImmoralPollsVietnam WarSecond World War Author:Noam Chomsky
“The more money women make, the less violence, the less sexual crimes against women. Everything horrific and misogynistic declines. But then what you're dealing with here is "What does it mean to be in love with people who are your equals?" And that's a very beautiful thing that we should cherish, but it's also incredibly tough in some ways.” PeopleWayShouldMeanDoeBeautifulViolenceCrimeToughCherishDeclineMore MoneyBeautiful ThingsVery BeautifulHorrific Author:Stephen Marche
“We must make a clear distinction between the nature of Chairman Mao's mistakes and the crimes of Lin Biao and the Gang of Four. For most of his life, Chairman Mao did very good things. Many times he saved the Party and the state from crisis. Without him the Chinese people would, at the very least, have spent much more time groping in the dark.” PeopleStatesDarkPartyMistakeClearFourCrimeCrisisGood ThingsVery GoodSavedChineseDistinctionMore TimeGangChairmanMaoChairman Mao Author:Deng Xiaoping
“For reasons that have stunningly little to do with crime or crime rates, we, as a nation, have chosen to lock up more than two million people behind bars. Millions more are on probation or parole, or branded felons for life and thus locked into a permanent second-class status.” PeopleLittlesTwoReasonNationsBehindsClassMillionsCrimeRateBarsChosenPermanentLockedLocksParoleBrandedCrime RatesFelonsLock UpProbationClass Status Author:Michelle Alexander
“Most people seem to assume that this dramatic surge in imprisonment was due to a corresponding surge in crime, particularly violent crime.” PeopleSeemsCrimeAssumingDuesViolentDramaticImprisonmentCorrespondingViolent Crimes Author:Michelle Alexander
“Defenders of the system will counter by saying this drug war has been aimed at violent crime. But that is not the case. The overwhelming majority of people arrested in the drug war have been arrested for relatively minor, non-violent drug offenses.” PeopleHas BeensWarCasesCrimeDrugMajorityViolentOverwhelmingMinorsOffenseArrestedDefendersWar On DrugsNon ViolentViolent Crimes Author:Michelle Alexander
“I think that even the Mexican society is a victim of all of this, of these crimes of "cleaning" people, of discarding people.” PeopleThinkingCrimeVictimCleaningMexican Author:Pope Francis
“Palestinians have been banned since forever. And nobody - and it's an unhuman act, and it's a - for me, it's a crime issue. So, nobody has punished Israel ever since they were banning Palestinians. And so, Israel right now feels the power that they can just move on with it, and now they are trying to ban other people that are not Palestinians.” PeopleFeelsTryingHas BeensMovingForeverIssuesCrimeRight NowIsraelPalestinianBansBannedJust Move On Author:Tamer Nafar
“I think that people don't realize that the sky will not fall when we legalize marijuana. My contention all along has been use will not go up when it's legalized. We'll just take the crime out of it. It's already a huge black market economy.” PeopleThinkingHas BeensUseFallBlackRealizingEconomySkyCrimeHugeMarijuanaContentionMarket EconomyLegalizing Marijuana Author:Rick Steves
“I'm not so out of touch that I don't see how young people interact today.It was horrific. And that's an example of something that it's not as if that's the first time that a hate crime has taken place in this country. Hate crimes have been taking place for hundreds of years in this country, but it's there on video.” PeopleIfsYearsFirstsHas BeensCountryTodayYoungHateTakenCrimeExampleFirst TimeVideoHate CrimeHorrific Author:Barack Obama
“Football leads to a crime rate among people that play in the NFL that is less than the gen pop, the general population. The numbers have been run. It's just that people who play football are stars and, as such, what they do occurs with greater media scrutiny. So when one of them happens to engage in some sort of questionable behavior, it happens to (in a lot of it people's minds) speak for the whole sport and everybody that plays it.” PeopleMindHas BeensPlayWholeHappensRunningSpeakStarsSportsNumbersGreaterMediaCrimeFootballBehaviorRatePopulationPopsNflScrutinyQuestionableCrime Rates Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I think of what's happening in Detroit as part of something that's much bigger. Most people think of the decline of the city as having to do with African-Americans and being in debt, and all the issues like crime and bad housing. But what happened is that when globalization took place, following World War II, Detroit's role as the center and the symbol of industrialization was destroyed. It wasn't because we had black citizens mainly or a black mayor; it was because the world was changing.” PeopleThinkingWorldWarBlackCitiesRolesIssuesHappenedCrimeCitizensHappeningsBiggerFollowingDebtDestroyedSymbolsAfrican AmericanWar Of The WorldsWorld War IiDeclineWorld War IGlobalizationHousingMayorsDetroitIndustrialization Author:Grace Lee Boggs
“Assad is always a priority. That is not an issue. He is a war crime. He has done terrible things to his own people. He has used chemical weapons on his own people. He continues to be a hindrance to peace in Syria. And that is something the Trump administration strongly believes.” PeopleBelieveWarDoneUsedIssuesCrimeTrumpTerribleWeaponsPrioritiesAdministrationChemicalsSyriaTerrible ThingsHindranceAssadWar CrimesChemical Weapons Author:Nikki Haley
“The plot is very important because writers have to play fair with their readers, but no one would care about the plot if the character work wasn't there. So, basically every book I work on starts with me thinking not just about the bad thing that's going to happen, but how that bad thing is going to ripple through the community, the family of the victim, and the lives of the investigators. I am keenly aware when I'm working that the crimes I am writing about have happened to real people. I take that very seriously.” PeopleThinkingWritingImportantBookRealCharacterCareCommunityCrimeVictimRipple Author:Karin Slaughter
“I think that, generally, when it's a white male shooting, then it's mental illness is the first thing that they utilize after reporting the crime. But in this instance, a Muslim, it's always terrorism. So it's always a direct attack towards Muslims, who are American citizens, and as well as other individuals who are here who believe in their faith. And we find that we are now in a position again of trying to protect ourselves, and, again, in some instances, causing people to become more sequestered in their day-to-day lives.” PeopleThinkingTryingBelieveIndividualCrimeProtectDirectIllnessTerrorismMental Illness Author:Daayiee Abdullah
“There are people on the left who say, Look, we can't let these atrocities go on, so let's enter the war and get rid of Bashar Assad. The problem with that is you get into a nuclear war with Russia. And Syria gets wiped out along with everything else. So, it's fine to say, OK, let's stop the crimes, but how exactly?” PeopleWarProblemCrimeSyriaNuclear War Author:Noam Chomsky
“Let's talk about the real issues of crime which people are worried about. What people are worried about is the rise in violent crime. We believe that more community policemen and women are part of the answer to this.” PeopleBelieveRealCommunityCrimeMen And WomenViolentWorried Author:Diane Abbott
“Most people will agree that they would like if they were treated by other people based on what they have concretely done in their life, not what other people have done, with their lives. 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".” PeopleWarDoneHateCrimeRacismAgreeWorldviewUnfairness Author:Tao Lin
“Hate crimes have increased since the election of Donald Trump. So I'm not surprised. I'm hopeful, very vigilant. We're seeing the same thing as what happened in 1933, when a politician stokes fears and grievances to rally them for a nationalist cause. But nationalism to the exclusion of other people is not nationalism, that's xenophobia.” PeopleHateCrimePoliticianElectionHopefulNationalismGrievance Author:Christian Picciolini
“Lots of people commit crimes and don't get arrested. That's not the measure. But if you're going to be the president of the United States, we're reasonably going to put you under a microscope. And Donald Trump's tax behavior is absolutely important to understanding, is he qualified, is he morally fit, is he capable, is he trustworthy to have everything from the powers of federal law enforcement to the nuclear codes?” PeopleImportantUnderstandingPresidentCrimeFitTaxesBehaviorCapableCommitCodeLaw EnforcementTrustworthy Author:Hillary Clinton
“Barack Obama thinks this country is a crime. Obama thinks this country is a walking, living crime, the way it's treated poor people, minorities and so forth, and he wants to get even, he wants to get even with all those people that have engaged in this theft, discrimination, racism and be and so forth, he also wants to create a permanent underclass for the express purpose of making sure he's never out of office or the regime's party is never out of office.” PeopleThinkingCountryPurposePoorPartyCrimeWalkingOfficeRacismDiscriminationBarackPoor People Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Impeachment really is not a criminal proceeding. The American people have been conditioned to believe that, you know, high crimes and misdemeanors means what? Impeachment is a purely political process. And it can only succeed if there is the political will for it out there in the country. You can have all the misdemeanors and high crimes you want, but if the president's popular, you're not gonna succeed.” PeopleBelieveMeanCountryPoliticalCrimeSucceed Author:Rush Limbaugh
“One last important influence I'll mention is Flannery O'Connor. In high school I shoplifted her Complete Stories. Having read "Good Country People" for class, I really just felt a home in her work. I had little guilt about the theft at the time. I sucked in my stomach and shoved the book into my pants. It's very big. I can still feel how it cut into my body in the most exciting way. Clearly, I don't feel guilt-free about this crime anymore - I wouldn't be mentioning here, looking for some absolution if I did.” PeopleImportantBookCountryHomeSchoolCuttingInfluenceCrimeHigh SchoolExcitingGuilt Author:Samantha Hunt
“When people reflexively write checks to institutions that have billions of dollars in the bank, they are essentially committing a moral crime. Your money could do good in this world and you're choosing instead to waste it. People have to do a better job of that. You've got to find places where your money's going to do some good and direct your dollars towards that institution.” PeopleWorldWritingMoralCrimeDirect Author:Malcolm Gladwell
“The prison system today is so messed up. Some people say, "Some criminals are made in prison," and it's actually true. The numbers and the facts are very clear. Almost 70% re-offend, and they re-offend, more often than not, with a worse crime than what they were put away for. And what's mind-boggling is that it's not in anyone's interests. It's a waste of enormous resources, with money, but also all of these young men and women that have their lives ruined.” PeopleMenTodayInterestCrimeMen And WomenPrison Author:Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
“Fundamentally, as human beings, we're very, very alike and a lot more alike than we think, but we have a tendency to divide the world into them and us. In prison, when people commit a crime and we put them away, they definitely become "them." We don't want to deal with it because they have chosen to step out of society, so we're going to keep them out. Even if they serve their time, we're going to make sure that, for the rest of their lives, they're going to be branded. I don't know how to do it in a different way, but I think it clearly doesn't work.” PeopleThinkingWorldDifferentCrimePrisonCommitChosen Author:Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
“The British were doing crime stories first, but the British thing is a very different thing. There, the stories are about restoring a break in the fabric of society. The American thing has never been worrying about breaks in the fabric of society, but about people doing their job, whether it's police procedurals or criminals or whatever.” PeopleDifferentBreakWorryCrimePolice Author:Donald E. Westlake
“I think when people accuse you of a crime, you have every reason to go after them pretty hard.” PeopleThinkingReasonCrime Author:Mitt Romney
“I always tell people what I did 50 years ago as a teenager is now 4,000 times easier to do today than when I did it. Technology breeds crime - it always has and it always will. There's always going to be people willing to use technology in a negative, self-serving way. So today it's much easier, whether it's forging checks or getting information. People go on Facebook and tell you what car they drive, their mother's name, where you are going on vacation, where you've been on vacation. There's nothing you can't research in a matter of a couple of minutes and find out about someone.” PeopleTodayTechnologyCarCrimeCoupleNegativeTeenagerVacation Author:Frank Abagnale
“Weirdly enough, the best thing that ever happened to black people in the last twenty or thirty years was the O.J. Simpson verdict because it shut down the white guilt bank. And white guilt has never led to anything good. It's brought us spiraling crime rates, mostly with black victims, and a permanent underclass living in public housing projects. For years, liberals cried that "law and order" and "welfare reform" were racist code words.” PeopleEnoughBlackCrimeVictimGuiltRateCodeWelfareRacistBlack PeopleLaw And Order Author:Ann Coulter
“Yet, when Republicans were finally able to push through tough policies on crime and welfare which they'd supported for decades, they were magnificent successes for the entire country, but especially for black people. Release us, and great things will happen!” PeopleCountryBlackCrimePolicyRepublicanToughGreat ThingsWelfareBlack PeopleMagnificent Author:Ann Coulter
“Poverty is not an accident of, sort of, an economic spreadsheet. Poverty is a crime. There are criminals involved. And those criminals walk the streets as free men. What my music is about, and what - this from the riots in the streets of Greece and Spain to the people's uprisings in Egypt and Libya and Madison is about is holding those people accountable, those who are responsible for subverting the entire global economy and causing so much misery and then laughing about it with their, you know, clinking their champagne glasses on their yachts.” PeopleMenPovertyLaughingEconomyEconomicCrimeMusic IsResponsibleMiseryGreeceRiotGlobal EconomyYacht Author:Tom Morello
“Putin's survival depends on land grabs of foreign territories. He needs new annexations. The annexation of Crimea has gained him much applause at home. But that will not last forever. The Western sanctions are beginning to take hold and the people are suffering. In order to maintain his popularity, Putin has to commit further international crimes. Otherwise he will be dead politically.” PeopleHomeSufferingForeverCrimeSurvivalWesternCommitPopularity Author:Arseniy Yatsenyuk
“In the Sixties, there was a big resistance to the Vietnam War. People began reinterpreting all American history as a series of misadventures and crimes and oppressions visited upon the innocent, the poor, the defenseless, the minorities, and so on. This created a new narrative in America. Let's call it, "America the inexcusable." And this narrative has been drummed into the minds of our young people. A whole generation of Americans has been taught that theirs is a bad country. And it's then very difficult for them to figure out how one can one be a good citizen in a bad country.” PeopleMindWarCountryDifficultPoorCrimeInnocentOppressionSixtyAmerican HistoryVietnam WarGood Citizen Author:Dinesh D'Souza
“No one is punished for free speech in Cuba. If free and inconvenient thoughts were a crime in our country, I would have been a good candidate for prison, with my advocacy for sexual self-determination. Those people are in prison because they are mercenaries paid by Washington.” PeopleCountryCrimePrisonFree SpeechAdvocacy Author:Mariela Castro
“In New Zealand, sex workers are regarded as workers, as people who are members of the community, people who have a stake in the community - not just in the workplace, but in the broader community. They aren't objects to be controlled and regulated. They are not collateral evidence of a crime. They are human beings.” PeopleCommunityCrimeEvidenceWorkplaceCollateral Author:Melissa Gira Grant
“There's a lot of forces opposed to legalization marijuana, so I don't want to put the cart before the horse. It's looking like it's going the legalization route, which, you know, a lot of people thought it needs to for a long time outside of recreational and medicinal use, just for crime reasons. We're pumping our prisons full of petty weed offenses and it's partially to feed that industry, but it's not good. It's not good for society, people go in there as a minor criminal and come out as a real criminal.” PeopleLongRealReasonCrimeHorsePrisonWeedMarijuanaOffense Author:John Buffalo Mailer
“The Peña Nieto government is not going to investigate itself; there's no true autonomy in the investigative and justice branches of the government in Mexico. The recent Mexican crimes and scandals, is profoundly structural, and you'd have to change the way Mexico is run, create a truly independent special prosecutor's office, to even have a chance to get close to achieving justice. People, including the families and many others throughout Mexican society, aren't going to give up in fighting for just that kind of change.” PeopleGivingKindRunningFightingJusticeChanceAchieveSpecialCrimeOfficeGiving UpIndependentAutonomyMexican Author:Francisco Goldman
“The thing I wrote we ought to look to Canada for is the shorter sentences. I mean, the mess we're in here, is because of the drug war and this idea of adding another five years, another 10 years, you know, like it means nothing to the people involved. It certainly does nothing for crime prevention - what problem are we hoping to solve?” PeopleMeanWarProblemCrimeDrugMessWar On Drugs Author:Peter Moskos
“I think there is a lot of crime caused by desperation, and it doesn't mean that people commit crime because they're poor, but certainly a lot of people who are poor commit crime and they might not if they weren't poor. You understand the difference there? That's not news, but it comes up when I hear people say poverty doesn't affect crime - that crime is still going down in America even though the economy is bad.” PeopleThinkingMeanPoorPovertyEconomyCrimeCommitDesperation Author:Peter Moskos
“I don't think we can reduce the prison population now, so many of these people are damaged goods once they've spent much time in prison. It would have to be over a generation. But certainly, yeah, white collar crime.” PeopleThinkingCrimePrisonWhite Collar Author:Peter Moskos
“Crime fiction is a genre for writing stories about people - about conflict, about guilt, about passion, about the human condition.” PeopleWritingPassionCrimeConflictGuiltHuman Condition Author:Jo Nesbo