Criminals Quotes - Page 19

• Let us say boldly, that if the total slum violations of law by the white man over the years were calculated and compared with the lawbreaking of a few days of riots, the hardened criminal would be the white man.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Men, White Man, Years

  Martin Luther King, Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1989). “The trumpet of conscience”, HarperCollins

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• Ordinarily, a person leaving a courtroom with a conviction behind him would wear a somber face. But I left with a smile. I knew that I was a convicted criminal, but I was proud of my crime.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Leaving, Proud, Faces

  Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1968). “I Have a Dream: The Quotations of Martin Luther King, Jr”

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• The idea that the State originated to serve any kind of social purpose is completely unhistorical. It originated in conquest and confiscation - that is to say, in crime. It originated for the purpose of maintaining the division of society into an owning-and-exploiting class and a propertyless dependent class - that is, for a criminal purpose.

  Albert J. Nock

  Class, Ideas, Purpose

  "The Criminality of the State". "The American Mercury" Magazine, March 1939.

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• Touch me again, and I’ll end you… in a non-criminal way.

  John Murphy

  Way, Ends, Touch Me

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• Between me and the other world there is ever an unasked question: unasked by some through feelings of delicacy; by others through the difficulty of rightly framing it. All, nevertheless, flutter round it. How does it feel to be a problem?

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Children, Other Worlds, Feelings

  "The Souls of Black Folk". Book by W. E. B. Du Bois, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1903.

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• ...Nixon's subversion [of the consititution] consisted of: One presidental lie; one invocation of presidental privilege, and zero criminal offences.

  William J. Clinton

  Zero, Lying, Politics

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• The American Constitution was not written to protect criminals; it was written to protect the government from becoming criminals.

  Lenny Bruce

  Government, Politics, Becoming

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• Keep in mind that Eric Alterman is media critic for The Nation-a hysterically left-wing magazine dedicated to the proposition that corporate America, U.S. foreign policy and the Republican Party are criminal, racist or both. The simple reality is that, for him, the Democratic Party is far too conservative.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Party, Simple, Reality

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• In a society of criminals, the innocent man goes to jail.

  Philip K. Dick

  Men, Innocent Man, Jail

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• The Law waits for you to stumble on a mode of being, a soul different from the FDA-approved purple-stamped standard dead meat - & as soon as you begin to act in harmony with nature the Law garottes & strangles you - so don't play the blessed liberal middleclass martyr - accept the fact that you're a criminal & be prepared to act like one.

  Hakim Bey

  Blessed, Fda, Law

  Hakim Bey (2003). “T.A.Z.: The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism”, p.21, Autonomedia

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• A delightful, intelligent read. Jim Zirin's sparkling account of life in the Second Circuit's famed MOTHER COURT is informative, riveting, accessible, and uplifting.  It would be criminal not to read this book.

  Linda Fairstein

  Uplifting, Mother, Book

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• The criminal is not alone when he returns to the scene of the crime; he is joined there by his victim, and both are driven by the same curiosity: to relive that moment which stamped past and future for each.

  Elie Wiesel

  Past, Curiosity, Return

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• People who look the other way when they see these war criminals are smaller criminals themselves.

  Malalai Joya

  War, People, Looks

  "Young member of Afghan Parliament speaks out against warlord colleagues" by Halima Kazem, www.sfgate.com. March 28, 2006.

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• We often pride ourselves on even the most criminal passions, but envy is a timid and shamefaced passion we never dare to acknowledge.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Passion, Pride, Envy

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• I know all those people. I have friendly, social, and criminal relations with the whole lot of them.

  Mark Twain

  People, Friendly, Taxation

  Taxes and Morals, delivered 22 January 1906, New York

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• A criminal becomes a popular figure because he unburdens in no small degree the consciences of his fellow man, for now they know once more where evil is to be found.

  Carl Jung

  Men, Self, Evil

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• Like it or not the American people support the term 'background check,' they support the concept of it even though they know it won't work to keep guns out of the hands of criminals they figure 'well if criminals aren't supposed to have guns what's the big deal about a background check,'

  Alan Gottlieb

  Gun, Hands, People

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• I am a writer, a professional journalist with serious credentials in Crime, Craziness, and Politics. I have mingled with dangerous criminals and attended many trials . . . from Hell's Angels, Black Panthers and Chicano street fighters to Roxanne Pulitzer and even Richard Nixon, back in the good old days before he was run out of the White House for fraud, perjury, graft, and criminal negligence.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Running, Angel, White

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Songs of the Doomed: More Notes on the Death of the American Dream”, p.275, Pan Macmillan

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• The victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Law, Justice, Victim

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.403

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• It would repel me less to be a hangman than a soldier, because the one is obliged to put to death only criminals sentenced by the law, but the other kills honest men who like himself bathe in innocent blood at the bidding of some superior.

  George Santayana

  War, Men, Blood

  George Santayana (1986). “The Works of George Santayana”

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• It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great public contest. I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.

  Edmund Burke

  Drawing, Ideas, People

  Edmund Burke (1963). “Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and Speeches”, p.201, Transaction Publishers

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• Where princes are concerned, a man who is able to do good is as dangerous and almost as criminal as a man who intends to do evil.

  Jean Francois Paul de Gondi

  Men, Evil, Able

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• If artists do see fields blue they are deranged, and should go to an asylum. If they only pretend to see them blue, they are criminals and should go to prison.

  Adolf Hitler

  Artist, Blue, Color

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• If we are on the outside, we assume a conspiracy is the perfect working of a scheme. Silent nameless men with unadorned hearts. A conspiracy is everything that ordinary life is not. It's the inside game, cold, sure, undistracted, forever closed off to us. We are the flawed ones, the innocents, trying to make some rough sense of the daily jostle. Conspirators have a logic and a daring beyond our reach. All conspiracies are the same taut story of men who find coherence in some criminal act.

  Don DeLillo

  Heart, Men, Games

  Libra pt. 2 (1988)

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• The humorist who invented trial by jury played a colossal practical joke upon the world, but since we have the system we ought to try and respect it. A thing which is not thoroughly easy to do, when we reflect that by command of the law a criminal juror must be an intellectual vacuum, attached to a melting heart and perfectly macaronian bowels of compassion.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Humorous, Heart

  Mark Twain (1992). “Twain: Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, and Essays, Volume 1: 1852-1890”, p.725, Library of America

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