Steve Bannon Quotes

Crime is naught but misdirected energy.

But passing by all other considerations, and contemplating merely the political institutions of the United States, I lament that we waste so much time and money in punishing crimes and take so little pains to prevent them.

A community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurence of crime.

Niggers are killing niggers, and penitentiaries are full of niggers and Mexicans. Why don't y'all give us some money to help us stop this problem? We want to go to college instead of going to the pen. Give us a future.

I am convinced that imprisonment is a way of pretending to solve the problem of crime. It does nothing for the victims of crime, but perpetuates the idea of retribution, thus maintaining the endless cycle of violence in our culture. It is a cruel and useless substitute for the elimination of those conditions--poverty, unemployment, homelessness, desperation, racism, greed--which are at the root of most punished crime. The crimes of the rich and powerful go mostly unpunished.

One of my younger homies, he went to jail, and some people came to me and were like, "Bail him out," and I said no. Why would I bail him out? He's going to prison. Let him sit and get some time served. You want to be crazy, but you don't want to go to jail. You want to shoot people, but you don't want to kill people. That's such a misleading thing.

While crime is punished it yet increases.

People behave badly and people are in prison and people are on death row, and there are no excuses for everybody's behavior, but most people are coming from abuse.

Imprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of our social problems.

Forgiveness is a sacrifice. You're giving up being right about something, whether you're right or wrong about it.

Sacrifice is the surrender of that which you value in favor of which you dont

Crime and violence is an attack on the poor and will never be accepted in a Trump administration.

I am a veteran, I fought in a war. I've been a prosecutor. I've sent people to jail for the rest of their life.

Eunice Parchman killed the Coverdale family because she could not read or write.

How vainly shall we endeavor to repress crime by our barbarous punishment of the poorer class of criminals so long as children are reared in the brutalizing influences of poverty, so long as the bite of want drives men to crime.

The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.

Cruelty is no more the cure of crimes than it is the cure of sufferings; compassion, in the first instance, is good for both; I have known it to bring compunction when nothing else would.

Do you not weep? Other sins only speak; murder shrieks out. The element of water moistens the earth, But blood flies upwards and bedews the heavens.

Any open net was an unforgivable crime meriting immediate punishment, and [Di Stefano] carried out the sentence by stabbing at it like a mischievous elf.

No, that's not possible," Michael said. "Killed, yes; jail, no.

The day of my arrest I was first put in a room where there were already several other prisoners, most of them Arabs. They laughed when they saw me. Then they asked what I was in for. I said I'd killed an Arab and they were all silent

There cannot be any great happiness in the married life except each in turn give up his or her own humors and lesser inclinations.

I do not see how hanging litter louts up by their heels and beating them with sticks could be considered a crime.

I guess that’s just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up.

I understand Donald Trump's goals. That's why I supported him for president. I share his beliefs that we've got to do more about crime, more about illegal immigration, more about gangs and violence and it's an honor and a pleasure to be able to lead that effort.