Criminal Behavior Quotes

• I think the part of media that romanticizes criminal behavior, things that a person will say against women, profanity, being gangster, having multiple children with multiple men and women and not wanting to is prevalent. When you look at the majority of shows on television they placate that kind of behavior.

  Bill Cosby

  Children, Men, Thinking

  "Q&A: Bill Cosby Talks Family, Faith and Tim Tebow". Interview with Mark Hensch, www.christianpost.com. December 15, 2011.

  52 Copy quote

  Show source

• If he who breaks the law is not punished, he who obeys it is cheated. This, and this alone, is why lawbreakers ought to be punished: to authenticate as good, and to encourage as useful, law-abiding behavior. The aim of criminal law cannot be correction or deterrence; it can only be the maintenance of the legal order.

  Thomas Szasz

  Order, Law, Punishment

  Thomas Stephen Szasz (2002). “The Meaning of Mind: Language, Morality, and Neuroscience”, p.36, Syracuse University Press

  22 Copy quote

  Show source
• 

  Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Mirrors, Empathy, Behaviour

  85 Copy quote

• [T]he truth is that drug addicts have a disease. It only takes a short time in the streets to realize that out-of-control addiction is a medical problem, not a form of recreational or criminal behavior. And the more society treats drug addiction as a crime, the more money drug dealers will make "relieving" the suffering of the addicts.

  Jay-Z

  Medical Problems, Addiction, Drug

  Jay-Z (2010). “Decoded (Enhanced Edition)”, p.51, Random House Group

  29 Copy quote

  Show source

• Evading responsibility can lead to a life long pattern of criminal behavior.

  Hetty King

  Responsibility, Long, Criminals

  7 Copy quote

• The kind of violence, looting, destruction that we saw from a handful of individuals in Baltimore, there's no excuse for that. That's not a statement. That's not politics. That's not activism. That's just criminal behavior.

  Barack Obama

  Criminals, Politics, Saws

  "At This Hour" with Kate Bolduan and John Berman, www.cnn.com. April 29, 2015.

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• Young black men are guilty of criminal behavior not because of the alleged crimes they might commit but because they are the product of a collective imagination paralyzed by the racism of a white supremacist culture they can only view them as a dangerous nightmare.

  Henry Giroux

  Men, Views, White

  Source: www.truth-out.org

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think the part of media that romanticizes criminal behavior, things that a person will say against women, profanity, being gangster, having multiple children with multiple men and women and not wanting to is prevalent. When you look at the majority of shows on television they placate that kind of behavior. If you go through a weekly Monday through Friday, it's all there. It's in how people on the sitcoms and cop shows talk to each other.

  Bill Cosby

  Friday, Monday, Children

  Source: www.christianpost.com

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• We hunt and fish or we'll go nuts dealing with the criminal behavior of our elected officials.

  Ted Nugent

  Nuts, Criminals, Behavior

  4 Copy quote

• Any move by Israel to end the conflict with the Palestinians by unilateral moves - such as annexing the West Bank, delinking Gaza and declaring that there be no further diplomatic process - will lead to strong regional and global reactions, as well as intensify efforts at the UN and in civil society to brand Israel as an outlaw state dangerous to regional and world peace and guilty of criminal behavior.

  Richard A. Falk

  Strong, Moving, Israel

  Source: www.truth-out.org

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• They're not trying to prevent Hollywood from making movies. They're asking that the most powerful image-building machinery in the world stop grinding out killer dykes and twisted homo sex fiends as if sexual orientation had anything to do with criminal behavior.

  Roger Ebert

  Sex, Powerful, Trying

  6 Copy quote

• Obviously, certain sins often may escape detection. Homosexuals who practice behind closed doors are out-of-bounds for the courts, of course, unless others witness their criminal behavior. Such behavior may not be dealt with by courts in history, but will be dealt with by God, either in history (e.g., AIDS) or eternity. The law that requires the death penalty for homosexual acts effectually drives the perversion of homosexuality underground, back to the closet, to the dark realm of shameful activity.

  Gary DeMar

  Dark, Practice, Doors

  6 Copy quote

• Although prison officials have long battled illegal cellphones, smartphones have changed the game. With Internet access, a prisoner can call up phone directories, maps and photographs for criminal purposes, corrections officials and prison security experts say. Gang violence and drug trafficking, they say, are increasingly being orchestrated online, allowing inmates to keep up criminal behavior even as they serve time.

  Kim Severson

  Phones, Internet Access, Games

  13 Copy quote

• As the National Football League and other pro sports increasingly reckon with the early dementia, mental health issues, suicides and even criminal behavior of former players, the risk of what's known as chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), is becoming clear.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Sports, Football, Suicide

  10 Copy quote