George Carlin Quotes

In no way do I feel superior to anyone except paedophiles, rapists, murderers, etc.

There are many more serial killers living outside the prison walls than inside.

We're recycling very dangerous criminals over and over again.

For 30 years I have tried to make it understood that there are no criminals.

If the people would but analyze the human equation of a prison they might better account for the crimes that are visited upon them in cities, towns, and hamlets, ofttimes by men who graduated with an education and equipment for just that sort of retributive service from some penal institution.

It was mild monsters like these that made Jack the Ripper go after young women, she decided: who could tolerate yielding the world to someone who behaved as if she had given birth to the very world herself?

It's time the long arm of the law put a few more in the ground, send them all to their maker and he'll settle them down.

I don't like repeat offenders; I like dead offenders.

Simply put, violent criminals break the law - any law - every day with impunity.

Our laws are too lax, our justice system too weak - particularly when it comes to violent, dangerous offenders.

My approach to the story... is if you can get into a criminal's mind and understand how it works and understand how crime is committed, you can help prevent it from happening to someone else.

As a law-enforcement official, as a politician, you are always going to have in the back of your mind the fear that someone you release will end up committing another crime, potentially a serious crime, during a period when they otherwise would have been incarcerated.

Too often, we see violent criminals return to the streets they have previously terrorized, only to commit more violent crimes.

I prefer a prison full of criminals than a graveyard full of innocent people.

If I were a serial killer, I would not be the kind that stabs and then eats the victim. I would be the kind that hides in a tree and shoots at the aerobics class.

Lately, the only thing keeping me from being a serial killer is my distaste for manual labor.

For one crime which is expiated in prison ten thousand are committed thoughtlessly by those who condemn.

Besides, who wants to read about success, anyway? Successful serial murderers, maybe.

Our criminal institutions are full of creeps like you who do wrong things, and many of them were driven to these crimes by the horrible force called music.

The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more difficult it is to bring it home.

Long, long before I became a filmmaker I was talking to killers. Filmmaking was an after thought.

Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind. It is the deed that teaches not the name we give it.

Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.

...Ned always said that the man who passes the sentence should swing the blade, though he never took any joy in the duty. But I would, oh, yes.

The typical mass murderer is extraordinarily ordinary.