Criminals Quotes - Page 14

• Of all the criminal cases in which Philo Vance participated as unofficial investigator, the most sinister, the most bizarre, the seemingly most incomprehensible, and certainly the most terrifying was the one that followed the famous Greene murders.

  S. S. Van Dine

  Murder, Bizarre, Cases

  S. S. Van Dine (2016). “The Bishop Murder Case”, S. S. Van Dine

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• The propaganda system allows the U.S. Ieadership to commit crimes without limit and with no suggestion of misbehavior or criminality; in fact, major war criminals like Henry Kissinger appear regularly on TV to comment on the crimes of the derivative butchers.

  Edward S. Herman

  War, Suggestions, Limits

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• H. L. Mencken famously said that 'every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.' By now, however, I am no longer ashamed, because I do not identify with the government under which I live. Rather, I view it as a criminal organization that without provocation has chosen to make war on my just rights-not only mine, of course, but everyone's. Although this vile enterprise is my problem, because it robs and bullies me relentlessly and without mercy, it is not my responsibility: the nail is not the hammer.

  Robert Higgs

  War, Responsibility, Men

  Robert Higgs (2007). “Neither Liberty Nor Safety: Fear, Ideology, and the Growth of Government”, Independent Inst

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• Without taking enforcement actions against all criminal aliens, programs such as Secure Communities may result in large numbers of identified criminal aliens being released back into the society which, of course, is an unacceptable outcome for our communities.

  Candice S. Miller

  Numbers, Community, Immigration

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• 'It is my duty to warn you that it will be used against you,' cried the Inspector, with the magnificent fair play of the British criminal law.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Law, Play, Used

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes”, p.648, Race Point Pub

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• There is all the difference in the world between the criminal's avoiding the public eye and the civil disobedience's taking the law into his own hands in open defiance. This distinction between an open violation of the law, performed in public, and a clandestine one is so glaringly obvious that it can be neglected only by prejudice or ill will.

  Hannah Arendt

  Eye, Ill Will, Hands

  Hannah Arendt (1972). “Crises of the Republic: Lying in Politics; Civil Disobedience; On Violence; Thoughts on Politics and Revolution”, p.85, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Let soldiers on manoeuvres plant trees. Give police and criminals a shovel and a thousand seedlings.

  John Wright

  Giving, Tree, Police

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• Judges, like the criminal classes, have their lighter moments

  Oscar Wilde

  Class, Judging, Judgement

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “A Critic in Pall Mall: Being Extracts from Reviews and Miscellanies”, p.150, Simon and Schuster

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• One is called a criminal for being different, and malicious for observing other people with too much clarity and penetration. But what if one began with oneself?

  Andre Suares

  People, Humanity, Being Different

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• Guilt or innocence becomes irrelevant in the criminal trials as we flounder in a morass of artificial rules poorly conceived and often impossible [to apply].

  Warren E. Burger

  Justice, Guilt, Trials

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• All failures - neurotics, psychotics, criminals, drunkards, problem children, suicides, perverts, and prostitutes - are failures because they are lacking in social interest

  Alfred Adler

  Suicide, Children, Failure

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• What most needs explanation is not why some people are criminals, but why most people are not.

  James Q. Wilson

  People, Needs, Explanation

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• It is rather astonishing that the United States does not play ball with the ICC, considering our country was the beacon of the idea of an international criminal court.

  George Clooney

  Country, Law, Play

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• A reform in the system of criminal jurisprudence, by which the death penalty shall no longer be inflicted . . . and by which our so-called prisons shall be virtually transformed into vast reformatory workshops, from which the unfortunate may emerge to be useful members of society, instead of the alienated citizens they now are.

  Victoria Woodhull

  Reform, Citizens, Jurisprudence

  Victoria Claflin Woodhull (1871). “The Origin, Tendencies and Principles of Government: Or, A Review of the Rise and Fall of Nations from Early Historic Times to the Present: with Special Considerations Regarding the Future of the United States as the Representative Government of the World and the Form of Administration which Will Secure this Consummation. Also, Papers on Human Equality, as Represented by Labor and Its Representative, Money: and the Meaning and Significance of Life from a Scientific Standpoint, with Its Prophecies for the Great Future”

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• That distrust which intrudes so often on your mind is a mode of melancholy, which, if it be the business of a wise man to be happy, it is foolish to indulge; and if it be a duty to preserve our faculties entire for their proper use, it is criminal. Suspicion is very often an useless pain.

  Samuel Johnson

  Wise, Pain, Men

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Edmond Malone (1824). “The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished”, p.132

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• Everyone has values; even criminal gangs have values. Values govern people's behavior but principles govern the consequences of those behaviors.

  Stephen Covey

  People, Vision, Principles

  Stephen R. Covey (2004). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change”, p.322, Simon and Schuster

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• For 30 years I have tried to make it understood that there are no criminals.

  Georges Simenon

  Years, Understood

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• What these memos do is they make legal acts that were criminal prior to these memos.

  Jane Mayer

  Memos

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• A criminal trial is like a Russian novel: it starts with exasperating slowness as the characters are introduced to a jury, then there are complications in the form of minor witnesses, the protagonist finally appears and contradictions arise to produce drama, and finally as both jury and spectators grow weary and confused the pace quickens, reaching its climax in passionate final argument.

  Clifford Irving

  Drama, Confused, Character

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

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• Saddam is a war criminal and there are no two people who can argue over this.

  Muqtada al Sadr

  War, Two, People

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• We stand for organized terror - this should be frankly admitted. Terror is an absolute necessity during times of revolution. Our aim is to fight against the enemies of the Soviet Government and of the new order of life. We judge quickly. In most cases only a day passes between the apprehension of the criminal and his sentence. When confronted with evidence criminals in almost every case confess; and what argument can have greater weight than a criminal's own confession.

  Felix Dzerzhinsky

  Fighting, Order, Government

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• The public has no power. The government knows I'm not a criminal. The parole board knows I'm not a criminal. The judge knows I'm not a criminal.

  Jack Kevorkian

  Government, Judging, Boards

  "Between the dying and the dead: Dr. Jack Kevorkian's life and the battle to Legalize Euthanasia"‎ by Neal Nicol, Harry Wylie, (p. 247), 2006.

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• The Federal Reserve System is not Federal; it has no reserves; and it is not a system at all, but rather, a criminal syndicate.

  Eustace Mullins

  Syndicate, Federal Reserve, Reserves

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• If one sets a car on fire, that is a criminal offence. If one sets hundreds of cars on fire, that is political action.

  Ulrike Meinhof

  Fire, Car, Political

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• Has the international criminal court avoided opening an investigation into alleged war crimes in Gaza due to political pressure. The answer is an unequivocal “no”. As prosecutor of the ICC, I reject any suggestion of this in the strongest terms.

  Fatou Bensouda

  War, Political, Suggestions

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