Criminals Quotes - Page 37

• Nobody can really compare a relationship in which the victim is 15 years old to one where she's 6. While both criminal, they're very different circumstances.

  Steven Wright

  Years, Different, Victim

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• The main goal in any criminal statute is to produce what's best for the victim. And sometimes, a mandatory minimum doesn't accomplish that.

  Paul Martin

  Goal, Sometimes, Victim

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• A criminal who, having renounced reason ... hath, by the unjust violence and slaughter he hath committed upon one, declared war against all mankind, and therefore may be destroyed as a lion or tiger, one of those wild savage beasts with whom men can have no society nor security.

  John Locke

  War, Men, Savages

  John Locke (2009). “The Second Treatise on Civil Government”, p.13, Prometheus Books

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• Mercy is not what every criminal is entitled to. What he is entitled to is justice.

  Lord Hailsham

  Punishment, Justice, Mercy

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• There is a thin line between the policeman and the criminal. The best cops are always crossed. The best cops are the ones who are able to think like criminals. But for a quirk of fate, they might have been criminals.

  William Friedkin

  Fate, Thinking, Lines

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• Nobody's a criminal to himself. I never play a criminal like a bad person.

  Michael Caine

  Play, Persons

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. April 30, 2010.

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• KRS-One is one of my favorite rappers ever. I actually don't even know why I have this on my computer, but I do. I really like this album, Criminal Minded.

  Girl Talk

  Rapper, Albums, Computer

  "Random Rules: Gregg Gillis of Girl Talk". Interview with Josh Modell, www.avclub.com. March 12, 2007.

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• Some trials look as much like the trial of an ordinary criminal case as a Hitchcock film looks like a home movie.

  Stephen Gillers

  Movie, Home, Ordinary

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• I wasn't allowed to watch MTV before school, but somehow I managed to, when I was five or six and Fiona Apple's video for "Criminal" came on. She was so odd and dark, and I immediately felt some kind of connection with her. She was also the first person I admired for their looks.

  Sky Ferreira

  School, Dark, Mtv

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• One is a criminal to some people and an artist to others. I can understand that. In a legal sense, I am a convicted criminal.

  Wolfgang Beltracchi

  Artist, People, I Can

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• I never decided to become an art forger. I was aware of my talent at an early age, and I used it foolishly. This developed over the years. In my heart, I don't see myself as a criminal.

  Wolfgang Beltracchi

  Art, Years, Age

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• Sex criminals. Completely incurable... I suppose you could outlaw religion and these sex crimes would disappear in a generation or two, but we don't have time for rational solutions.

  George Carlin

  Sex, Two, Generations

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

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• This [fundamentalism] is not religion. It is obscenity. These are lies, the criminal use of religious power to misguide people.

  Anwar Sadat

  Religious, Lying, People

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• Americans who value freedom had better be more concerned about the gun control crowd than the criminals. The criminals want your money. The Neo-Totalitarians want your freedom.

  Charley Reese

  Gun, Crowds, Want

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• Criminal law is one of the few professions where the client buys someone else's luck. The luck of most people is strictly non-transferrable. But a good criminal lawyer can sell all his luck to a client, and the more luck he sells the more he has to sell.

  William S. Burroughs

  Law, People, Luck

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• The broken image of Man moves in minute by minute and cell by cell.... Poverty, hatred, war, police-criminals, bureaucracy, insanity, all symptoms of The Human Virus.

  William S. Burroughs

  War, Moving, Men

  William S. Burroughs (2007). “Naked Lunch: The Restored Text”, p.141, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The purpose of my writing is to expose and arrest Nova Criminals.

  William S. Burroughs

  Writing, Purpose, Novas

  William S. Burroughs (2011). “Nova Express”, p.7, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• By far the greater part of violence that humans inflicted on each other is not the work of criminals or mentally deranged, but of normal, respectable citizens service of the collective ego. One can go so far as to say that on this planet "normal" equals insane. What is it that lies at the root of this insanity? Complete identification with thought and emotion, that is to say, ego.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Lying, Roots, Insanity

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• More than once I was tormented by the thought that if Providence had put me in the place of the incapable of criminal incompetents or scoundrels in our propaganda service, our battle with Destiny would have taken a different turn.

  Adolf Hitler

  Taken, Destiny, Battle

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The movie business is based on criminals. Some of them are in movies and some of them make movies.

  Daniel Craig

  Movie Business

  "Actor Daniel Craig talks Layer Cake and 007!". Interview with Julian Roman, movieweb.com. May 11, 2005.

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• Maybe I could survive in one of those resort prisons where they house white-collar criminals. I've always wanted to get better at tennis.

  Chuck Klosterman

  White, Tennis, House

  "Chuck Klosterman's greatest fears". Interview with Josh Modell, www.avclub.com. October 27, 2009.

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• Israel is run by war criminals...

  Medea Benjamin

  Running, War, Israel

  "To Gaza, With Love" by Medea Benjamin, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 21, 2009.

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• The average term length of a member of congress is approaching 15 years, and the average term length of a convicted criminal is less than three. We've got that backward.

  Oliver North

  Average, Years, Three

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• War crimes will be prosecuted. War criminals will be punished. And it will be no defense to say, 'I was just following orders.'

  George W. Bush

  War, Order, Defense

  Address to the Nation -- Ultimatum to Saddam Hussein, delivered 17 March 2003 from the Cross Hall at the White House

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• The internal and international criminal gang will either be forced to work or simply exterminated.

  Adolf Hitler

  Gang, Internals, International

  Richard Breiting, Adolf Hitler (1971). “Secret conversations with Hitler: the two newly-discovered 1931 interviews”

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