Criminals Quotes

• The world is filled with violence. Because criminals carry guns, we decent law-abiding citizens should also have guns. Otherwise, they will win and the decent people will lose.

  James Earl Jones

  Gun, Winning, Law

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

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• When the true criminals are running around free, the only honorable place for a decent human being is in prisons.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Running, Prison, Honorable

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• The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

  Publilius Syrus

  Funny, Humorous, Law

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• As one reads history ... one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Humor, Punishment

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “Aphorisms”, p.50, Oscar Wilde

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• Criminals are never very amusing. It's because they're failures. Those who make real money aren't counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem.

  Orson Welles

  Money, Real, Class

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• It means working harder to do the research but I don't really mind - I don't think I have what it takes to chase criminals through back alleys and wade through blood at crime scenes.

  Jeffery Deaver

  Mean, Thinking, Back Alleys

  GownUps interview, www.grownups.co.nz.

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• We must be vigilant in our actions towards criminals, and innovative in our approach towards solving crime.

  Thomas Menino

  Our Actions, Crime, Innovative

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• If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you can't deny a kind of respect for the great criminal.

  Denis Diderot

  Sublime, Essentials, Thieves

  "Rameau's Nephew". Book by Denis Diderot, 1805.

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• There's a difference between criminals and crooks. Crooks steal. Criminals blow some guy's brains out. I'm a crook.

  Ronald Biggs

  Blow, Differences, Guy

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• It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.

  Don Marquis

  Funny, Pregnancy, Humor

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• Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.

  Henry Thomas Buckle

  Political, Preparation, Society

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• The more I looked at people, the more I hated them.

  Charles Starkweather

  Hate, People, Serial Killer

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• If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.

  C. S. Lewis

  Wisdom, Struggle, Cutting

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• We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business?

  Will Rogers

  Funny, Humor, Able

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• Repudiating the virtues of your world, criminals hopelessly agree to organize a forbidden universe. They agree to live in it. The air there is nauseating. They can breathe it.

  Jean Genet

  Air, Evil, Wickedness

  Jean Genet, Edmund White (1993). “The selected writings of Jean Genet”, Ecco Pr

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• How did we suddenly become entranced with gangster culture? I saw it this morning on campus. When did the black community say we should all look like criminals?

  Tim Reid

  Morning, Community, Black

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• I was not sympathetic to the assumption that criminals had radically different motivations from everyone else.

  Gary Becker

  Motivation, Different, Assumption

  Gary Stanley Becker, Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace (1996). “The Economic Way of Looking at Behavior: The Nobel Lecture”, p.7, Hoover Press

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• We should not allow wealthy people, including corporate criminals, to hide their assets and avoid paying their bills.

  Jim Talent

  People, Bills, Assets

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• Resistance to criminal rashness comes better late than never.

  Livy

  Resistance, Better Late Than Never, Rashness

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• Our entire much-praised technological progress, and civilization generally, could be compared to an axe in the hand of a pathological criminal.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, Motivational

  Letter to Heinrich Zangger (1917), as quoted in "Albert Einstein: A Biography" by Albrecht Fölsing, (p. 399), 1997.

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• Morality and its victim, the mother - what a terrible picture! Is there indeed anything more terrible, more criminal, than our glorified sacred function of motherhood?

  Emma Goldman

  Mom, Mother, Sacred

  Emma Goldman (2016). “Anarchy and the Sex Question: Essays on Women and Emancipation, 1896–1926”, p.98, PM Press

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• My father is a practicing criminal law attorney in the Seattle area.

  David Guterson

  Father, Law, Attorney

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• I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Thinking, Government, Economics

  Letter to Duncan Grant, 15 Dec. 1917

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• It's like the old rule-if you introduce a gun into the first act of a play, it's going to be used in the third act. So if you do a movie about criminals, you have to accept there's going to be Some action.

  Harold Ramis

  Gun, Play, Firsts

  Interview with Kenneth Plume, asitecalledfred.com. May - November 2005.

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• It is only the inadequacy of the criminal code that saves the hackers from very serious prosecution.

  Ken Thompson

  Serious, Hackers, Prosecution

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