Criminals Quotes - Page 5

• War should be made a crime, and those who instigate it should be punished as criminals.

  Charles Evans Hughes

  Peace, War, Crime

  "The Pathway of Peace". Speech to the Canadian Bar Association, Montreal, Ontario. "The Pathway of Peace : Representative Addresses Delivered During His Term as as secretary of state (1921-1925)" by Charles Evans Hughes, September 04, 1923.

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• It puts limits on criminals' rights to destroy unborn children without the permission of the woman.

  Lindsey Graham

  Children, Rights, Unborn Child

  "Abortion rights forces fight bill to make harming fetus a crime" by Jeanne Meserve, www.cnn.com. September 29, 1999.

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• If were going to change the laws, lets change them in ways which makes it easier to catch criminals, and yet at the same time protect the Second Amendment rights of our law-abiding citizens.

  John Dingell

  Rights, Law, Second Amendment

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• Not a season passes without new disclosures showing Nixon's numerous attempts at criminal use of his presidential powers and in fact the scorn he held for the rule of law.

  Bob Woodward

  Law, Presidential, Use

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• The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren

  Ayn Rand

  Government, Cracks, Libertarian

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.334, Hamilton Books

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• In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

  George Orwell

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Wisdom

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• Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Birthday, Peace, Age

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.19, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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  There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power.

  Washington Irving

  Strength, Sad, Sympathy

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• There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.

  Ramsey Clark

  Way, Prison, Individual

  Keynote address to American Correctional Association conference, Miami Beach, Fla., Aug. 1967

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• The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.

  Barry Goldwater

  Government, Political, Income

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• I only did my duty to my country when I tried to oppose the criminal folly of Hitler.

  Wilhelm Canaris

  Country, Historical, Duty

  "Admiral Canaris - Chief of Intelligence". Book by Ian Colvin, p. 210, 2007.

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• I spent time in, like, criminal courts, and covering murder trials for papers.

  Kurt Loder

  Covering, Trials, Literature

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• A community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurence of crime.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Humor, Punishment

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)”, p.1649, Delphi Classics

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• Consular offices make no attempt to determine whether the person obtaining the card is legally in the United States. In fact, the only people who need these cards are illegal immigrants, criminals and terrorists. Consular cards also are easily forged.

  Elton Gallegly

  People, Office, United States

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• Radium could be very dangerous in criminal hands.

  Pierre Curie

  Hands, Dangerous

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• Yes, for my undergrad I majored in Criminal Justice and minored in Political Science and English.

  Matthew McGrory

  Justice, Political, Owners

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• I never saw anything that would qualify as a criminal activity.

  Martin Bashir

  Literature, Saws, Activity

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• All endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time.

  Mitch Albom

  Hard Times, Profound, Criminal Mind

  Mitch Albom (2009). “The Five People You Meet In Heaven”, p.8, Hachette UK

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• A crime persevered in a thousand centuries ceases to be a crime, and becomes a virtue. This is the law of custom, and custom supersedes all other forms of law.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Humor, Law

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.230, Courier Corporation

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• Christ's crucifix shall be made an excuse for executing criminals.

  William Blake

  Judging, Excuse, Christ

  William Blake (1966). “Complete Writings: With Variant Readings”, p.380, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Every new year is the direct descendant, isn't it, of a long line of proven criminals?

  Ogden Nash

  New Year, Years, Long

  Ogden Nash (1954). “Many long years ago”

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• The administration says, then, there are no downsides or upsides to treating terrorists like civilian criminal defendants, but a lot of us would beg to differ.

  Sarah Palin

  Administration, Terrorist, Civilians

  Keynote Speech at the Inaugural Tea Party Convention, delivered 6 February 2010, Nashville, Tennessee

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• Things I wonder about the FBI's list of the "Ten Most Wanted" criminals: When they catch a guy and he comes off the list, does number eleven automatically move up? And does he see it as a promotion? Does he call his criminal friends and say, "I made it, Bruno. I'm finally on the list"?

  George Carlin

  Funny, Moving, Humor

  George Carlin (2015). “3 x Carlin: An Orgy of George including Brain Droppings, Napalm and Silly Putty, and When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?”, p.573, Hachette UK

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• The last thing I would have ever expected to happen to me in my life would be that, in fact, I would be accused of doing something wrong and maybe even something criminal.

  Kenneth Lay

  Would Be, Lasts, Facts

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• One of the tests of the civilization of people is the treatment of its criminals.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Civilization, People, Presidential

  "Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes". Book by Rutherford B. Hayes, 1922 - 1926.

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