Criminals Quotes - Page 40

• The Constitution does not trust judges to make determinations of criminal guilt.

  Antonin Scalia

  Determination, Judging, Guilt

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• It is always possible that occasional individuals may have overstepped the law and humanity in treatment of criminals and those charged with crime, and if so, they should be severely punished.

  Herbert Hoover

  Law, Humanity, May

  United States. President (1929-1933 : Hoover), Herbert Hoover (1974). “Herbert Hoover: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President”

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• No man may initiate the use of physical force against others. No man-or group or society or government-has the right to assume the role of a criminal and initiate the use of physical compulsion against any man. Men have the right to use physical force only in retaliation and only against those who initiate its use. The ethical principle involved is simple and clear-cut: it is the difference between murder and self-defense.

  Ayn Rand

  Cutting, Simple, Men

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• Teaching COBOL ought to be regarded as a criminal act.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Teaching, Cobol, Ought

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• We cannot eradicate global drug markets, but we can certainly regulate them as we have done with alcohol and tobacco markets. Drug abuse, alcoholism and tobacco should be treated as public health problems, not criminal justice issues.

  Otto Perez Molina

  Issues, Justice, Alcohol

  "We have to find new solutions to Latin America's drugs nightmare" by Otto Pérez Molina, www.theguardian.com. April 7, 2012.

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• I too was frightened the first time I felt I hated my father. I felt like a criminal. But could I help it what was inside of me? I had to feel what I felt even if it killed me.

  Anzia Yezierska

  Father, Firsts, Helping

  Anzia Yezierska (1975). “Bread Givers: A Novel : a Struggle Between a Father of the Old World and a Daughter of the New”

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• The death penalty? Give me a break. It's easy. Abortion? Absolutely easy. Nobody ever thought the constitution prevented restrictions on abortion. Homosexual sodomy? Come on. For 200 years, it was criminal in every state.

  Antonin Scalia

  Years, Giving, Abortion

  "Antonin Scalia, 1936-2016: conservative bulwark who resisted ages of change" by David Smith, www.theguardian.com. February 14, 2016.

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• If you remove the fear of criminal punishment for the nation's political and financial elites - as we have done - what possible constraint on their behavior does anyone think will remain?

  Glenn Greenwald

  Thinking, Punishment, Political

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• History is no criminal court

  Leopold von Ranke

  Court

  Leopold von Ranke (1981). “The secret of world history: selected writings on the art and science of history”, Fordham Univ Pr

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• The government is always looking for something that appears more dangerous than itself, and these criminals seem to fit the bill. Never mind that it was the government that promised but failed to protect us. It was the government that prevented the airlines from protecting themselves. It was the government that so badly botched the rescue operations. It was the government that had stirred up the hate that led to the terrorism.

  Llewellyn Rockwell

  Hate, Government, Mind

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• The welfare state has bred a generation of obnoxious, drug-addled criminals and ne'er-do-wells. It has also, incidentally, burdened what was once the world's biggest, most dynamic economy with the dead weight of an obstructive and vastly expensive state machine.

  Martin Durkin

  Drug, Generations, Machines

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• The criminal penalties [for suicide] are the production of a later and darker age.

  Edward Gibbon

  Suicide, Age, Penalties

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• Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves.

  Robert Kennedy

  Enforcement, Kind, Crime

  Robert F. Kennedy (1964). “The Pursuit of Justice”, New York : Harper & Row

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• Nothing is so common as the wish to be remarkable.(attributed to)

  William Shakespeare

  Wish, Criminal Mind, Common

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• In the 1950s, buggery was a criminal offence. Now it's a requirement to receive benefits from the federal government.

  Garry Breitkreuz

  Government, Benefits, Requirements

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• The civil justice system is a backup system when the criminal justice system fails.

  Ralph Nader

  Justice, Failing, Backup

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• It's been a long while since we've had a major celebrity criminal case.

  Renee Montagne

  Long, Cases, Majors

  "What Is The Cultural Impact Of Bill Cosby's Arrest On Sex Crimes?". "Morning Edition" with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. December 31, 2015.

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• If you get into crime you gotta know that everybody's a criminal and everybody's a liar, and everybody has the potential to backstab you, because it's not an honest profession. So don't go into crime and look for honesty.

  Ice T

  Honesty, Liars, Looks

  Source: thequietus.com

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• [Mark] Twain called Congress "the only distinctly native criminal class in America. We've lately sent a United States Senator to the penitentiary." That was a fact.

  Hal Holbrook

  Class, America, United States

  "BWW Interviews: Hal Holbrook of MARK TWAIN TONIGHT, Coming to Riverside's Fox Performing Arts Center". Interview with Audrey Liebross, www.broadwayworld.com. January 12, 2015.

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• Although I was simply what today would be called a "mule" - the bottom of the food chain in the drug biz - the federal system treated me from beginning to end like a major criminal, and I still don't know why, other than that in those days, 6.5 ounces of heroin was a big load. Ludicrous by today's standards, when coke, heroin, and weed are shipped across the border by the ton.

  Patricia McConnell

  Weed, Drug, Borders

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I am always an optimist. The pessimists are the liars who refuse to admit what is happening. And I'll give you three things we could do this instant to help Mexico: legalize drugs, renegotiate NAFTA so that it pays a living wage, protects unions and protects the environment and stop Plan Merida which gives $500 million a year to the Mexican army, the largest single criminal organization in Mexico.

  Charles Bowden

  Liars, Army, Years

  Source: therumpus.net

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• My anti-authoritarian instincts let me directly to criminal defense work.

  Lynne Stewart

  Defense, Instinct, Let Me

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• It is the policy of the United States not to engage in torture, and there are federal criminal laws that prohibit torture.

  John Yoo

  Law, United States, Torture

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I think any person who goes to Rikers is criminalized, even just for visiting. I go back every week to see my friends in there. When you go to see a criminal, you are by relation a criminal and subject to be treated like one.

  Cecily McMillan

  Thinking, Week, Visiting

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• When you reflect upon the significance of Dr. King to this nation, it's criminal that he hasn't had a feature film that was centered around him until now. That, in and of itself, was emotional. But when you're doing scenes on the Edmund Pettus Bridge, with people still living in Selma and now in their 60s and 70s who had actually marched, who were there that original Bloody Sunday, that's humbling... that's deeply moving. You're no longer acting at that stage, you're just reacting, because it takes the filmmaking process to another dimension.

  David Oyelowo

  Kings, Moving, Sunday

  Source: aalbc.com

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