Criminals Quotes - Page 28

• It is criminal negligence to leave suckers lying around to tempt honest men.

  Wilson Mizner

  Lying, Men, Atheism

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• The biggest thing that will define my legacy is how I've done it, and what I've done, and who I am. I'm a weird big guy. Doing rapping, doing movies. Do a lot of stuff. But always do things the right way. Went to the police academy to become a police officer. Get his master's in criminal justice, stayed out of trouble. Played for three different teams. Changed three different franchises around. This is a guy who they would have secret meetings about to change the rules. So, that's going to be my legacy: the most dominant player ever.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Team, Rap

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• I got it, I dove on the floor, he dove on my head and I hit my teeth on the ground. It was just one of my police reactions to get that criminal off me.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Nba, Police

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• There are people who are always going to try to engage in activity that is illegal and they're going to try to subvert surveillance. But everybody should not give up their liberties and rights to privacy because some people are going to [do that]. We shouldn't stop or limit our basic liberties because some people are going to engage in criminal activities.

  Laura Poitras

  Giving Up, Rights, People

  "Laura Poitras Talks CITIZENFOUR, Her First Impression of Edward Snowden, Her Commitment to Fearless Adversarial Journalism and More". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. October 26, 2014.

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• Many conspiracies are not criminal, even conspiracies that involve slamming somebody.

  David Shuster

  Conspiracy

  «Hardball with Chris Matthews», www.nbcnews.com. October 17.

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• Every major criminal case is always built from the bottom up. You get the underlings, you get them to plead and cooperate, and that leads to the higher-ups.

  Michael Isikoff

  Cases, Higher, Bottom

  "Hardball with Chris Matthews", October 17, 2005.

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• Criminals are opportunists. If you've got a booming market, they're going to get away with more fraud.

  William Matthews

  Opportunist, Fraud, Get Away

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• At least Bank of America got its name right. The ultimate Too Big to Fail bank really is America, a hypergluttonous ward of the state whose limitless fraud and criminal conspiracies we'll all be paying for until the end of time.

  Matt Taibbi

  Names, America, Failing

  "Bank of America: Too Crooked to Fail" by Matt Taibbi, www.rollingstone.com. March 14, 2012.

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• [T]he crucial question is not, as so many believe, whether property rights should be private or governmental, but rather whether the necessarily 'private' owners are legitimate owners or criminals. For ultimately, there is no entity called 'government'; there are only people forming themselves into groups called 'governments' and acting in a 'governmental' manner. All property is therefore always 'private'; the only and critical question is whether it should reside in the hands of criminals or of the proper and legitimate owners.

  Murray Rothbard

  Believe, Rights, Government

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• The chance of a criminal getting caught,
  is only slightly better than getting hit by lightning.

  Michael Peterson

  Lightning, Chance, Caught

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• The most dangerous action a woman can take when faced with a criminal is to resist with her fists: That tends to annoy violent criminals, and the woman will very likely be seriously injured. But a woman who takes the advice of Handgun Control Inc. and passively submits is 2.5 times more likely to be injured than a woman who resists with a gun. So if you don't want to lie back and enjoy it, get a gun. Otherwise you may never become a mom.

  Ann Coulter

  Mom, Lying, Gun

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• I started here in Australia, playing a lot of roles but never the lead guy in shows here. I always tended to play the rougher guy, the criminal who gets caught or shot by the cops. Or the boyfriend from the wrong side of the tracks.

  Sullivan Stapleton

  Play, Australia, Track

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• Creative people like to think in unconventional ways, dislike rules, are easily bored, are independent, like to experiment, and enjoy being their own bosses. Basically the same traits found in most criminals and sociopaths

  Duncan Long

  Independent, Thinking, People

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• Here's a summary for the time or attention challenged: Never surrender freedom for laws that can't affect criminals; they disobey laws for a living.

  Wayne LaPierre

  Law, Attention, Surrender

  "U.S. freedoms not to blame for Mexico's drug war" by Wayne LaPierre, www.cnn.com. March 26, 2009.

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• It is not our criminal actions that require courage to confess, but those which are ridiculous and foolish.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Courage, Ridiculous, Action

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• To organize work in such a manner that it becomes meaningless, boring, stultifying, or nerve-racking for the worker would be little short of criminal; it would indicate a greater concern with goods than with people, an evil lack of compassion and a soul-destroying degree of attachment to the most primitive side of this worldly existence.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Compassion, Attachment, People

  E.F. Schumacher (1975). “Small is Beautiful”

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• Nothing is unimportant to a man plunged in despair. He is as credulous as a criminal sentenced to death who listens to a lunatic raving to him about how he can escape through the keyhole.

  Honore de Balzac

  Men, Despair, Keyholes

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• Danger arouses interest. Where death is involved, the vilest criminal invariably stirs a little compassion.

  Honore de Balzac

  Compassion, Littles, Danger

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• The causes that govern the heart appear to be wholly alien to the results achieved. Are the forces that moved a desperate criminal the same that fill a martyr with pride, as both mount the scaffold?

  Honore de Balzac

  Heart, Pride, Causes

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• atrophy of feeling creates criminals.

  Anais Nin

  Feelings, Crime, Atrophy

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• I never knew a critic who made it his business to lash the faults of other writers that was not guilty of greater himself--as the hangman is generally a worse malefactor than the criminal that suffers by his hand.

  Joseph Addison

  Hands, Suffering, Faults

  Joseph Addison (1804). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison”, p.457

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• These detective series on TV always end at precisely the right moment-after the criminal is arrested and before the court turns him loose.

  Robert Orben

  Punishment, Tvs, Detectives

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• Criminal cases receive the attention of the press. The cruel and disagreeable things of life are more apt to get the newspaper space than the pleasant ones. It must be that most people enjoy hearing of and reading about the troubles of others. Perhaps men unconsciously feel that they rise in the general level as others go down.

  Clarence Darrow

  Reading, Men, Space

  Clarence Darrow (2015). “The Story of My Life”, p.80, Lulu.com

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• Religious doctrines do not and clearly cannot be adopted as the criminal code of a state.

  Clarence Darrow

  Religious, Doctrine, States

  Clarence Darrow (2015). “Crime: Its Cause and Treatment”, p.7, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• It is urged that the use of the masculine pronouns he, his, and him in all the constitutions and laws, is proof that only men were meant to be included in their provisions. If you insist on this version of the letter of the law, we shall insist that you be consistent and accept the other horn of the dilemma, which would compel you to exempt women from taxation for the support of the government and from penalties for the violation of laws. There is no she or her or hers in the tax laws, and this is equally true of all the criminal laws.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Men, Law, Support

  Quoted in Ida Husted Harper, The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (1899) Apelles

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