Warren Ellis Quotes

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

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.

Get jailed, jump bail, join the Army if you fail.

The true criminal must be defined as a man who commits a crime though he is as decently fed and clothed as others.

Once I've done a crime, I just forget it. I go from crime to crime.

Punishment can do a lot for criminals, and send a message to the rest of society.

A lot of the friends I had went on to become criminals.

One out of 100 citizens of the U.S. is going to prison, and it's not that the system is making criminals, it's that it's making criminals better criminals. We're breeding them like rats and it has to change.

Jim Thompson understood something about the serial killer before the psychology caught up to it, which is that they are detached to it and they do want to get caught.

Get off your butt and join the Marines!

The number one cause of crime is criminals.

Study the history of almost any criminal and you find an inveterate cigarette smoker

No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes.

Crime is contagious.

I want you for US Army

The purpose of punishment is fulfilled, crime is repressed by penalties of just, not tormenting, severity, its repetition is prevented, and hope is given for the reformation of the criminal.

Obviously crime pays, or there would be no crime.

Who knows what is really going on within a criminal enterprise? Criminals

[We have to make] a distinction between dangerous violent criminals and people who are engaged in non-violent criminal activities….Your taking somebody out of the economy, breaking up their families, and putting them in a place with hardened criminals. I think that it is pretty hard to argue that has been a positive long-term result.

There's something quite fascinating with crooks and criminals and all things against the law.

The key for members of the public is that they want criminals to be punished. They want them taken off the streets. They also want criminals who come out of prison to go straight.

I think the killers get far too much attention.

Given the devastation that crime can visit on families and communities, I will err on being a little too tough on crime than being too soft on crime.

I think that far too often we let those who commit crimes in our society off far too lightly.

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