51 Quotes About Crime-and-punishment
- Author Amanda Ward Eyre
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Franny understood then that grace was not like a present. It could not be given, and it could not be taken away.
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- Author Nils Christie
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The offender must be able to give something back. But criminals are most often poor people. They have nothing to give. The answers to this are many. It is correct that our prisons are by and large filled with poor people. We let the poor pay with the only commodity that is close to being equally distributed in society: time.
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- Author David F Burrows
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Time becomes your enemy when you convince yourself it moves faster for you than anyone else.
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- Author Lamine Pearlheart
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Holy wars, aerial raids and bombardments, military invasions and terrorism are but crimes seeking a reason to be. - On Wars
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- Author Sheeja Jose
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Being a spokesperson for non-violence on the war-front will take you to the grave, that too headless.
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- Author Brian Spellman
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If life was fair ... one third of the people would comprise of judges and lawyers ... one third of police and prison officials ... and one third of legislators ... and one third more to make the other three thirds make any sense at all .... Thank goodness for no fair.
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- Author Jackson Burnett
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Justice isn’t about fixing the past; it’s about healing the past's future.
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- Author Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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All is in a man's hands and he lets it all slip from cowardice, that's an axiom. It would be interesting to know what it is men are most afraid of. Taking a new step, uttering a new word is what they fear most… .
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- Author Dimitri A. Bogazianos
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Crack had a social logic to it, a specific kind of reasoning that drew from a vast well of common experience for its symbolic resonance. Crack stood for pain and power, chaos and order, the truth behind the lie. Crack was a sociolegal logic grounded in blood.
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