Veronica Roth Quotes

But if you go over the line, you don't want to get stuck in a Nevada State court room. Honestly, because Nevada has been doing a good job of putting California criminals in jail. I mean, we couldn't put OJ in jail, but they did. We couldn't put Paris Hilton in jail, but they did.

No court presumes to tell a jury that they are to try a capital case with the same indifference and unconcern as to consequences, that they would a case where the results of their decision would be less important.

We have to be careful about applying criminal labels to people until we're very sure.

Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.

There are not many times when I get nervous, but I do a little bit with penalties.

It's better to choose the culprits than to seek them out.

It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace.

It is surely easier to confess a murder over a cup of coffee than in front of a jury.

It is only losers that are prosecuted.

You can put handcuffs on people who push the envelope. When they break the law, they deserve to have handcuffs.

Those responsible for social insecurity will receive harsher punishment

Perchance you who pronounce my sentence are in greater fear than I who receive it.

Within the realm of the law, we have to be as severe as we can. We will not simply give capital punishment to all criminals, but those who deserve it will get it.

The law makes ten criminals where it restrains one.

They could hang people for what's in there.

Everybody is afraid of the unknown. Everybody is afraid of the people that they've done terrible things to!

Sometimes, we get numb to the fact that people get sent away. We don't see where they are; we say they are 'doing time,' and you really don't know what that is.

We have judicial system in Sudan. Anyone who committed a war crime, anti-human crime, or any other crime will be locked up.

My earliest memories are of visiting the justice department.

If I was a bad guy, I probably would be incarcerated.

I didn't feel at all guilty about what I did, so I couldn't plead guilty, even though I would get a more lenient sentence.

The case has been going on for so long that I've forgotten whether I'm really innocent or guilty.

If you tell the truth all day long, you will end up in jail.

Nothing so upholds the laws as the punishment of persons whose rank is as great as their crime.

Crime and punishment grow out of one stem.