Quotes and Sayings About Criminals
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I am very interested in loyalty, even if the person to whom one is loyal is flawed, criminal, or otherwise in the wrong.
-- A.M. Homes -
Tattooed men who are not behind bars are either latent criminals or degenerate aristocrats. If someone who is tattooed dies in freedom, then he does so a few years before he would have committed murder.
-- Adolf Loos -
They allow us to disrespect our Black woman. A lot of these things would be considered criminal if it were to be carried out in the streets. That's like when they tell you after you buy your VHS and you rent movies they tell you not to copy the movies.
-- Afrika Bambaataa -
Criminals were coming to Chechnya from all over the world - they did not have a place in their own countries. But they could live perfectly well in Chechnya.
-- Akhmad Kadyrov -
My rackets are run on strictly American lines and they're going to stay that way.
-- Al Capone -
Scientists search for truth. Philosophers search for morality. A criminal trial searches for only one result: proof beyond a reasonable doubt.
-- Alan Dershowitz -
The idea that the State originated to serve any kind of social purpose is completely unhistorical. It originated in conquest and confiscation-th at is to say, in crime. It originated for the purpose of maintaining the division of society into an owning and exploiting class and a property-less dependent class - that is, for a criminal purpose.
-- Albert J. Nock -
Taking the state wherever found, striking into its history at any point, one sees no way to differentiate the activities of its founders, administrators, and beneficiaries from those of a professional criminal class.
-- Albert J. Nock -
You might as well ask why a middle-aged man with no criminal record might put a paper bag over his head and rob a bank. I acted out of personal desperation.
-- Aldrich Ames -
Like I've said before, so many times before, I'm not a good person, I'm not a hero. I'm a criminal, a liar, a cheat, a killer. It was them or me and I wanted to live.
-- Alexander Gordon Smith -
I never took that stuff personally when people said I was too young, too inexperienced. I get politics. I get attack ads. But they said 'mobbed up family.' That we were criminals. That kills me.
-- Alexi Giannoulias -
We cannot say that if a child is badly nourished he will become a criminal. We must see what conclusion the child has drawn.
-- Alfred Adler -
It is ordinarily said that criminal law is designed to protect property and to protect persons, and if society's only interest in controlling sex behavior were to protect persons, then the criminal codes concerned with assault and battery should provide adequate protection. The fact that there is a body of sex laws which is apart from the laws protecting persons is evidence of their distinct function, namely that of protecting custom.
-- Alfred Kinsey -
Attention must be given to the penal consequences of violations of the right to peace, including the punishment by domestic courts or in due time by the International Criminal Court of those who have engaged in aggression and propaganda for war.
-- Alfred-Maurice de Zayas -
We enact many laws that manufacture criminals, and then a few that punish them.
-- Allen Tucker -
Fabricating reality was criminal; editing it, commonplace.
-- Amy Waldman -
Stealing to eat ain’t criminal—stealing to be rich is.
-- Andrew Vachss -
I have to say I'm all for public flogging. One type of criminal that a public humiliation might work particularly well with are the juvenile delinquents, a lot of whom consider it a badge of honor to be sent to juvenile detention. And it might not be such a cool thing in the 'hood to be flogged publicly.
-- Ann Coulter -
A law imposing criminal penalties on protected speech is a stark example of speech suppression.
-- Anthony Kennedy -
Let me be clear - no one is above the law. Not a politician, not a priest, not a criminal, not a police officer. We are all accountable for our actions.
-- Antonio Villaraigosa -
The passed Pawn is a criminal, who should be kept under lock and key. Mild measures, such as police surveillance, are not sufficient
-- Aron Nimzowitsch -
It is fortunate for this community that I am not a criminal.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle -
'It is my duty to warn you that it will be used against you,' cried the Inspector, with the magnificent fair play of the British criminal law.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle -
The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.
-- Ayn Rand -
The government was set to protect man from criminals-and the constitution was written to protect man from the government. The Bill of Rights was not directed at private citizens, but against the government-as an explicit declaration that individual rights supersede any public or social power.
-- Ayn Rand -
A lady cannot be blamed if a master criminal takes a fancy to her.
-- Barbara Mertz -
"Criminal justice" was a term she found more apt than it was meant to be.
-- Barbara Neely -
The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.
-- Barry Goldwater -
I really feel like the sky is the limit with the Innocent Criminals today.
-- Ben Harper
