Criminals Quotes - Page 34

• The kind of violence, looting, destruction that we saw from a handful of individuals in Baltimore, there's no excuse for that. That's not a statement. That's not politics. That's not activism. That's just criminal behavior.

  Barack Obama

  Politics, Saws, Baltimore

  "At This Hour" with Kate Bolduan and John Berman, www.cnn.com. April 29, 2015.

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• Over the last few years a lot of people have become aware of the inequities in the criminal justice system, right now, with our overall crime rate and incarceration rate both falling, we're at a moment when some good people in both parties, Republicans and Democrats and folks all across the country, are coming up with ideas to make the system work smarter and better.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Party, Fall

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• These are young people who made mistakes that aren't that different than the mistakes I made and the mistakes that a lot of you guys made, we have a tendency sometimes to almost take for granted or think it's normal that so many young people end up in our criminal justice system. It's not normal. ... What is normal is teenagers doing stupid things.

  Barack Obama

  Mistake, Teenager, Stupid

  Barack Obama's remarks after visit at El Reno Federal Correctional Institution in El Reno, Oklahoma, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. July 16, 2015.

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• It's a moral problem that the government is making into criminals people, who may be doing something you and I don't approve of, but who are doing something that hurts nobody else.

  Milton Friedman

  Hurt, Government, People

  "Friedman & Szasz On Liberty and Drugs". Interview with Randy Paige on "America's Drug Forum", www.druglibrary.org. 1991.

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• Black people are dying in this country because we have a criminal justice system which is out of control, a system in which over 50% of young African American kids are unemployed. It is estimated that a black baby born today has a one in four chance of ending up in the criminal justice system.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, Baby, Kids

  "O'Malley and Sanders interrupted by Black Lives Matter protesters in Phoenix" by Martin Pengelly, www.theguardian.com. July 18, 2015.

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• All children are essentially criminal.

  Denis Diderot

  Children

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• One thing I have learned in institutions is not to press hard on the fact that their inmates are, like the rest of mankind, sinners; for they, like many others, are liable to confuse the generic term "sinner" with the specific term "criminal." Most of us are so accustomed to admit that we have fallen short of grace and are "miserable offenders," in view of our possibilities and opportunities, that we do not resent being called "sinners"; but not so with our congregation.

  Mary B. Harris

  Opportunity, Views, Grace

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• We should differentiate between criminals who make violent threats online, and trolls who are just arseholes

  Bonnie Greer

  Arseholes, Troll, Online

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• Isn't it curious how completely ignorant we all are of the most important part of our bodily mechanism. It is really criminal. Yet there is no nation in the world that doesnt surround sex with fantastic walls. Of course ours are sillier than any-but not much.

  John Dos Passos

  Sex, Wall, Ignorant

  John Dos Passos (1973). “The Fourteenth Chronicle: Letters and Diaries of John Dos Passos”, Harvard Common Press

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• The worst criminals of our time are the US and UK governments. Both are devoid of all integrity, all honor, all mercy, all humanity. Many members of both governments would have made perfect functionaries in Stalinist Russia or Nazi Germany.

  Paul Craig Roberts

  Integrity, Russia, Government

  Paul Craig Roberts (2014). “How America Was Lost: From 9/11 to the Police/Welfare State”, p.378, Atwell Publishing

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• To the criminals and all their accomplices, I, today, humbly and as a brother, repeat: convert yourselves to love and justice. It is possible to return to honesty. The tears of the mothers of Naples are asking this of you.

  Pope Francis

  Love, Mother, Brother

  "Pope Francis Takes On Mafia, Corruption In Naples" by Philip Pullella, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 21, 2015.

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• We ask for peace and freedom for the many men and women subject to old and new forms of enslavement on the part of criminal individuals and groups.

  Pope Francis

  Peace, Freedom, Men

  "Pope Francis declares holy war on terror in Vatican Easter Mass service" by Louie Smith, www.mirror.co.uk. April 5, 2015.

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• All we want is justice for John Crawford and everyone responsible for John Crawford's death should be held responsible, the criminal justice system refused to hold those accountable so the civil system must.

  Michael Wright

  Justice, Want, Responsible

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• Society, during the last hundred years, has been alternately perplexed and encouraged, respecting the two great questions -how shall the criminal and pauper be disposed of, in order to reduce crime and reform the criminal on the one hand, and, on the other, to diminish pauperism and restore the pauper to useful citizenship?

  Dorothea Dix

  Hands, Order, Years

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• Disarmed citizens encourage crime and violence. Armed citizens encourage criminals to find a safer line of work.

  Harry Browne

  Violence, Citizens, Lines

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• I think myself that we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious. Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have ... The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases. The two enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the constitution so the second will not become the legalized version of the first.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Thinking, Government, Two

  Letter to William Ludlow, September 6, 1824.

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• I'm worried about greenwashing. I think we should come down on it very, very hard, whether it's with criminal intent or actively deceptive.

  John Elkington

  Thinking, Worried, Should

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• If people believe that marijuana helps their medical issues then they should allow people to indulge in those remedies. It is criminal that we do not encourage "science" to fully investigate the medical usages of pot.

  Steven Machat

  Believe, Marijuana, Indulge In

  "A Cannabis Crusader Brings The Fight For Legal Weed To America’s Heartland". Interview with Stacey Chillemi, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 31, 2016.

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• Pot must be legalized as it grows in nature. It is natural and organic too. It is part of the hemp world and it is criminal that we do not use hemp to facilitate our lifestyle. From paper to soap to clothes to anything, we can think of for the most part.

  Steven Machat

  Thinking, Clothes, Use

  "A Cannabis Crusader Brings The Fight For Legal Weed To America’s Heartland". Interview with Stacey Chillemi, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 31, 2016.

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• God knows America would be the greatest again if she operated like the Nugent family. No takers, no whiners, no gangsters, no dopers, no drunks, no criminals, no bloodsuckers, no excuse makers, no crybabies, no punks, no Obama supporters.

  Ted Nugent

  Obama Supporters, America, Would Be

  "Ted Nugent Interview: Our First American Rock and Roll President?". Interview with Ray Shasho, www.classicrockmusicwriter.com. August 4, 2013.

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• Anti-drug fanatics and cops are the criminals - it's like McCarthyism. They need someone to dislike to distract the public from the really important problems.

  Ken Kesey

  Drug, Important, Needs

  Source: theodorecarter.com

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• I think the brain is a dynamic system in which some parts control or suppress other parts. And if perhaps one has damage in one of the controlling or suppressing areas, then you may have the emergence or eruption of something, whether it is a seizure, a criminal trait - - or even a sudden musical passion.

  Oliver Sacks

  Passion, Thinking, Musical

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• As long as we continue to fight in between the jamming with all we have to save America from the current suicidal deathwish of the corrupt, criminal punks intentionally destroying the last best place.

  Ted Nugent

  Suicidal, Fighting, America

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• I believe my first duty is to survive. And I'm not just talking about criminals coming into my home. I once seriously considered getting a gun to protect myself from the police. If I need a weapon to continue living, I'll get one. And I'll use it.

  George Carlin

  Believe, Home, Gun

  Interview with Sam Merrill, reprints.longform.org. January 1982.

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• If someone can produce the law that keeps guns out of the hands of criminals but protects the right of law-abiding citizens to possess them, and doesn't infringe on those rights, I would consider that. But all the proposals I've seen do not achieve that goal. And we are missing a golden opportunity to have an important debate about violence in the USA. Violence in our society is the problem.

  Marco Rubio

  Gun, Opportunity, Hands

  Source: alter.newsweek.msnbc.com

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