Criminality Quotes

• The Crucifixion and other historical precedents notwithstanding, many of us still believe that outstanding goodness is a kind of armor, that virtue, seen plain and bare, gives pause to criminality. But perhaps it is the other way around.

  Mary McCarthy

  Believe, Giving, Historical

  Mary McCarthy (1961). “On the contrary”, Farrar, Straus and Cudahy

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• He who does not prevent a crime, when he can, encourages it.

  Seneca the Younger

  Encouragement, Philosophical, Doe

  "The Trojan Women". Book by Seneca the Younger, 1st century AD.

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• The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Luxury, Enemy, Folly

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• The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Crime, Plague, Termination

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• Criminality is always the result of poverty.

  Jacob Zuma

  Poverty, Results, Multicultural

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The prisoner is not the one who has commited a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over.

  Henry Miller

  Prison Life, Literature, Crime

  Henry Miller (2007). “Sexus: The Rosy Crucifixion I”, p.341, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• There is no society known where a more or less developed criminality is not found under different forms. No people exists whose morality is not daily infringed upon. We must therefore call crime necessary and declare that it cannot be non-existent, that the fundamental conditions of social organization, as they are understood, logically imply it.

  Emile Durkheim

  Organization, People, Different

  John A. Spaulding, George Simpson, Emile Durkheim (2010). “Suicide”, p.362, Simon and Schuster

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• There is nothing new in the realization that the Constitution sometimes insulates the criminality of a few in order to protect the privacy of us all.

  Antonin Scalia

  Freedom, Order, Political

  "Opinion By Scalia Opposes Broad View Of Police Power" by Stuart Taylor Jr., www.nytimes.com. March 4, 1987.

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• I think what's always been interesting to me than the science and the criminality with this job is what happens to your persona, your disposition, after day in and day out dealing with life and death.

  George Eads

  Jobs, Thinking, Life And Death

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• What's crucial is that the IRA produce a credible statement that paramilitary and criminality activity is a thing of the past. That they are committed to a future which is exclusively peaceful and democratic.

  Peter Hain

  Past, Peaceful, Ira

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• Do you see law and order? There is nothing but disorder, and instead of law there is the illusion of security. It is an illusion because it is built on a long history of injustices: racism, criminality, and the genocide of millions. Many people say it is insane to resist the system, but actually, it is insane not to.

  Mumia Abu-Jamal

  Order, Law, Long

  Mumia Abu-Jamal (2003). “Death Blossoms: Reflections from a Prisoner of Conscience”, p.11, South End Press

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• The civil forfeiture law - if something so devoid of due process can be dignified as law - is an incentive for perverse behavior: Predatory government agencies get to pocket the proceeds from property they seize from Americans without even charging them with, let alone convicting them of, crimes. Criminals are treated better than this because they lose the fruits of their criminality only after being convicted.

  George Will

  Agency, Government, Law

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• Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

  Voltaire

  Fear, Punishment, Prison

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• There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.

  William Hazlitt

  Vices, Heroism, Virtue

  William Hazlitt (1839). “Sketches and Essays”, p.39

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• Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

  Seneca the Younger

  Philosophical, Succeed, Virtue

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• One of the critical issues that we have to confront is illegal immigration, because this is a multi-headed Hydra that affects our economy, our health care, our health care, our education systems, our national security, and also our local criminality.

  Allen West

  Health, Issues, Immigration

  "West on Issues Facing America". "Your World" with Neil Cavuto, www.foxnews.com. October 11, 2010.

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• Let me completely condemn these sickening scenes; scenes of looting, scenes of vandalism, scenes of thieving, scenes of people attacking police, of people even attacking firefighters. This is criminality pure and simple and it has to be confronted.

  David Cameron

  Simple, People, Firefighter

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• There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.

  Simone Weil

  Wisdom, Justice, Modern

  Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.31, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• The world of crime is a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Events, World, Lasts

  Daniel J. Boorstin (2012). “The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America”, p.254, Vintage

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• The heartbreak of runaway corruption, abuse of power and indefensible criminality by our government and media should, must inspire all good we-the-people Americans to wake the hell up from the embarrassing curse of apathy and start demanding constitutional accountability from our elected employees. How radically non-sheep of me.

  Ted Nugent

  Heart, Media, Sheep

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• The abused child goes on living within those who have survived such torture, a torture that ended with total repression. They live with the darkness of fear, oppression, and threats. When all its attempts to move the adult to heed its story have failed, it resorts to the language of symptoms to make itself heard. Enter addiction, psychosis, criminality.

  Alice Miller

  Children, Moving, Psychosis

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• We wanted to describe society from our left point of view. Per had written political books, but they'd only sold 300 copies. We realised that people read crime and through the stories we could show the reader that under the official image of welfare-state Sweden there was another layer of poverty, criminality and brutality.

  Maj Sjowall

  Book, Views, People

  "The queen of crime". Interview with Louise France, www.theguardian.com. November 21, 2009.

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• The heartbreak of runaway corruption, abuse of power and indefensible criminality by our government and media should, must inspire all good we-the-people Americans to wake the hell up from the embarrassing self-inflicted curse of apathy and start demanding Constitutional accountability from our elected employees.

  Ted Nugent

  Heart, Self, Media

  "Ted Nugent on GOP: 'I pray to God they finally rediscover their scrotum'". Interview with Jared Boyd, www.al.com. July 20, 2016.

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• No man can delegate,... any right of arbitrary dominion over a 3rd person; for that would imply a right in the 1st person, not only to make the 3rd person his slave, but also a right to dispose of him as a slave to still other persons. Any contract to do this is necessarily a criminal one...To call such a contract a “constitution” does not at all lessen its criminality, or add to its validity.

  Lysander Spooner

  Men, Criminals, Doe

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• As belief is a passion of the mind, no degree of criminality is attachable to disbelief.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Passion, Mind, Atheism

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1874). “The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.26

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