Criminals Quotes · Page 36

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

— John Yoo

When my face is flushed with blood, it becomes red and obscene. It betrays at the same time, through morbid reflexes, a…

— Georges Bataille

The poorer people and criminals of Mexico who are not very religious but not quite atheists, either, worship Saint Death.

— Karl Pilkington

Any criminal act against any individual or institution in India is to be condemned. The attackers must be strongly punished as per…

— Narendra Modi

I knew how many MPs I had assigned to the brigade, how many military prison operations I would be running, but we…

— Janis Karpinski

The fingerprinting requirement affected only law-abiding citizens that want to buy firearms. It had no impact on Baltimore's criminal element at all.

— Gregory Kane

My dean gave me permission to model during my work semester, even though I was in the Criminal Justice Department. I don't…

— Beverly Johnson

Scientists search for truth. Philosophers search for morality. A criminal trial searches for only one result: proof beyond a reasonable doubt.

— Alan Dershowitz

Somebody asked me earlier if I thought it was really important to tell stories about women's struggles. And I said yes, but…

— Diablo Cody

Attention must be given to the penal consequences of violations of the right to peace, including the punishment by domestic courts or…

— Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

I am convinced that the majority of people to-day have good, generous feelings which they can never know, never experience, because of…

— D. H. Lawrence

Self-reinvention is an essential trope of the American project, closely linked to another such trope: going on the lam. Both are regularly…

— Luc Sante

Bush, and Blair, and the prime minister of Japan, and Berlusconi, these people are criminals, and they are responsible for mass murder…

— George Galloway

History has shown that the greater power of the gun is its power to deter. Bear in mind that criminals, by definition,…

— Massad Ayoob

Kid gets caught with marijuana, that kid has a police record. A Wall Street executive destroys the economy, $5 billion settlement with…

— Bernie Sanders

Love is illegal - but not hate. That you can do anywhere, anytime, to anybody. But if you want a little warmth,…

— Lou Jacobi

A right to jury trial is granted to criminal defendants in order to prevent oppression by the Government.

— Byron White

“African Americans are not significantly more likely to use or sell prohibited drugs than whites, but they are made criminals at drastically…

— Michelle Alexander

If you knowingly and willingly embark on criminal behaviour, the consequences of that should be... that you lose some of your benefits…

— Iain Duncan Smith

I think the clearest manifestation for anyone who doubts that racism and classism exist in America, all one need do is take…

— Tim McDonald

“There is no crime in anyone’s blood any more than there is goodness in the blood of others. Criminals are not born.…

— Khuswant Singh

Where is [Ariel] Sharon who, planning to be one of the big heroes of Israel, became one of the killers, criminals, killing…

— Yasser Arafat

If you wish to know how libertarians regard the State and any of its acts, simply think of the State as a…

— Murray Rothbard

The priority of the Trump administration is to secure the border and deport criminal aliens; people who are not just here illegally…

— Paul Ryan

Everyone has favorite criminals. Mine are pimps. We can all rob a bank; we can all sell drugs. Being a pimp is…

— Chris Rock

Of course, as a German, I wouldn't like to tell the American people how to handle their criminal justice.

— Werner Herzog

I went into journalism to learn the craft of writing and to get close to the world I wanted to write about…

— Michael Connelly

I don't believe in having spaces in the home that don't get used. We pay so much for square footage that to…

— Nate Berkus

Freedom without opportunity is a devil's gift, and the refusal to provide such opportunities is criminal

— Noam Chomsky

When the penalty for a policeman's mistake is to put a criminal back out on the street, then we are hurting America;…

— Gary Bauer

Governments commit more crimes upon persons and property and contribute more to their insecurity than all [the] criminals put together.

— Josiah Warren

The will to survive is not as important as the will to prevail... the answer to criminal aggression is retaliation.

— Jeff Cooper

By the time I got to high school I knew what I was gonna do. Mainly because I looked around and saw…

— Hunter S. Thompson

Experts say that children are not born criminals, nor pampered parasites. They are made that way by the environment in which they…

— J. Edgar Hoover

Too often, we see violent criminals return to the streets they have previously terrorized, only to commit more violent crimes.

— Kathy Szeliga

If anybody had a reason to become a delinquent, to become a criminal, to be angry at the man, to be angry…

— Larry Elder

The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.

— Ayn Rand

There's very little different between the way the government operates in America and the way criminals do.

— Ben Mendelsohn

Basque and Celt. Criminals and barbarians. I didn't think there could be a more primitive pairing of genes.

— Karen Marie Moning

A criminal may improve and become a decent member of society. A foreigner cannot improve. Once a foreigner, always a foreigner. There…

— George Mikes