Criminals Quotes - Page 17

• Our criminal justice system has swallowed up too many people I love.

  Michael K. Williams

  People, Justice, Criminal Justice System

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• Bottom line is that I have had a totally criminal moral code and operated with a totally criminal mind attitude that I have not fully confronted (even down to lying about lying and doing illegal things).

  Mike Rinder

  Attitude, Lying, Illegal Things

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• You know what? I’m sure drug dealers on the street, in some way, they are making money. That’s what I equate it to. Here is the thing: you have to understand, with psychiatry, there is no science behind it. And to pretend that there is a science behind it is criminal

  Tom Cruise

  Drug, Way, Making Money

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• Part of the reason why movie bosses are so obsessed with crime movies is because they know that world and the criminals. And that's what they are - they would not hesitate to act illegally to achieve profit and gain.

  Peter Mullan

  Boss, World, Gains

  Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2003.

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• Criminals are just regular people who didn’t have time to read all the laws.

  Mariska Hargitay

  Law, People

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• I wouldn't join the International Criminal Court. This is a body based in The Hague where unaccountable judges, prosecutors, could pull our troops, our diplomats up for trial. And I wouldn't join. And I understand that in certain capitals of, around the world that that wasn't a popular move. But it's the right move not to join a foreign court that could, where our people could be prosecuted.

  George W. Bush

  Moving, People, Judging

  "Robert Fisk on the Presidential Debate, Iraq, Palestine and the International Criminal Court". www.democracynow.org. October 01, 2004.

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• How awful for them [Hitler's victims] to see those swastikas, the SS men and the SA - people we'd never thought of as criminals.

  Leni Riefenstahl

  Men, People, Politics

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• I wonder that no criminal has ever pleaded the ugliness of your city as an excuse for his crimes.

  Oscar Wilde

  Cities, America, Wonder

  Oscar Wilde (2010). “Oscar Wilde in America: The Interviews”, p.70, University of Illinois Press

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• Would you have a strong and virile nation, keep your homes pure; would you reduce delinquency and crime, lessen the number of broken homes. It is time that civilized peoples realized that prevention is more profitable than punishment, and that the home is the incubator either of children of high character or of criminals. Home building, therefore, should be the paramount purpose of parents and of the nation.

  David O. McKay

  Strong, Children, Character

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• The customs of that most criminal nation (Israel) have gained such strength that they have now been received in all lands. The conquered have given laws to the conquerors.

  Seneca the Younger

  Israel, Law, Land

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• Two criminals were crucified with Christ. One was saved; do not despair. One was not; do not presume.

  Saint Augustine

  Hope, Two, Despair

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• It is difficult to call myself a writer, even when I stand at a podium to receive a prize, I feel uncomfortable calling myself a writer—I am merely a word criminal.

  Murong Xuecun

  Calling, Difficult, Uncomfortable

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• Each month there are numerous incidents where visitors are abducted by criminal groups - just long enough to withdraw the maximum amount of money from an ATM account.

  Mark Hall

  Long, Each Month, Groups

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• In 1966 the ACS formulated a State Model Cancer Act which was instrumental in the enactment of anti-quackery laws now enforced in 9 states...In California (it is a) felony...The use of unproven methods is also a criminal offense in Colorado, Illinois, Kentucky, Maryland, Nevada, North Dakota, Ohio, and Pennsylvania.

  Jane Brody

  Cancer, Dark, Illinois

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• For my part I think it is a less evil that some criminals should escape, than that the government should play an ignoble part.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Thinking, Government, Play

  Olmstead v. United States (dissenting opinion) (1928)

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• Freedom without opportunity is a devil's gift, and the refusal to provide such opportunities is criminal

  Noam Chomsky

  Opportunity, Devil, Refusal

  Noam Chomsky (1999). “Profit Over People: Neoliberalism and Global Order”, p.91, Seven Stories Press

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• The criminal law needs to be improved to meet new forms of crime, but to denounce financial devices which are useful and legitimate because use is made of them for fraud, is ridiculous and unworthy of the age in which we live.

  William Graham Sumner

  Law, Hype, Age

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• In modern Russia, you have no official, formal assessment of this past. Nobody in any Russian document has said that the policy of the Soviet government was criminal, that it was terrible. No one has ever said this.

  Ryszard Kapuscinski

  Past, Russia, Government

  "An Interview with Ryszard Kapuscinski: Writing about Suffering". Interview With Thomas Wolfe, quod.lib.umich.edu. 1998.

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• A society should be judged not by how it treats its outstanding citizens but by how it treats its criminals.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Citizens, Prison, Should

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• To be an effective criminal defense counsel, an attorney must be prepared to be demanding, outrageous, irreverent, blasphemous, a rogue, a renegade, and a hated, isolated, and lonely person - few love a spokesman for the despised and the damned.

  Clarence Darrow

  Love, Lonely, Age

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• Murder is a horror, but an often necessary horror, never criminal, which it is essential to tolerate in a republican State. Is it or is it not a crime? If it is not, why make laws for its punishment? And if it is, by what barbarous logic do you, to punish it, duplicate it by another crime?

  Marquis de Sade

  Law, Punishment, Essentials

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• These men [medical doctors] plan ways of doubling their incomes and come to the public with the plea that they are sincerely interested in the health and welfare of our children and that they put over their income-increasing programs for the health of our babies and for the welfare of the school children. They are as cold-blooded as any class of criminals on the whole earth. Indeed, I know of no other class of criminals who live by crippling, maiming and killing babies and children.

  Herbert M. Shelton

  Baby, Children, School

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• ...this new idea of cure instead of punishment, so humane in seeming, had in fact deprived the criminal of all rights and by taking away the name Punishment made the thing infinite.

  C. S. Lewis

  Rights, Punishment, Names

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• Hollywood no longer depicts reporters in ruthless pursuit of criminals, high and low. Now they are the criminals.

  Frank Rich

  Hollywood, Propaganda, Lows

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• One of greatest thieves this world has is procrastination, and he is still at large. Are we aiding and abetting the criminal?

  Sterling W Sill

  Procrastination, Thieves, World

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