Voltairine de Cleyre Quotes

We're so so interested in protecting criminals and people that want to do us harm and I think we have to go back to a little more old fashioned method of thinking, if that makes sense.

Criminals are punished, that others may be deterred.

The experience of being a prosecutor gives us a sort of proctologists view of our society.

The law makes ten criminals where it restrains one.

I went into criminal justice because I want to learn more about the law, about what's going on in this world, and be a mentor to kids from where I'm from.

We have to bring back law and order in this country and I think the police are phenomenal people.

The criminal law is no use to decent people.

Our criminal justice system has swallowed up too many people I love.

Oh, law and order! I often think it is that that is at the bottom of all the misery in the world.

I am openly pro-prosecution and make no bones about it. I don't think there are enough people out there sticking up for victims.

In a well governed state, there are few punishments, not because there are many pardons, but because criminals are rare; it is when a state is in decay that the multitude of crimes is a gaurantee of impunity.

The people of Britain want a Home Secretary who will give them back their streets. They want a Home Secretary who will speak up for the victim, not the criminal.

The laws only can determine the punishment of crimes, and the authority of making penal laws can only reside with the legislator, who represents the whole society united by the social compact.

To confront criminals, we need to finish with corruption. If we don't do this, there is no hope.

Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on.

Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear.

As a former attorney general. I have the greatest respect for the criminal justice system. But it is not good at intelligence gathering.

There are a lot of messages that need to be sent to the criminal who is out there dealing in this on the streets of the United States. We need to send the message of swiftness and certain punishment.

Famous crime stories almost always lead to the passing of new laws.

There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.

We want a state of things in which crime will not pay.

We spend an awful lot of money on the criminal justice system that could better be spent at the other end of the spectrum.

The government may set decoys to entrap criminals. But it may nor provoke or create a crime, and then punish the criminal, its creature.

Court rules do not cause crime.

Criminals are not the victims of society; society is the victim of criminals.