Criminals Quotes

We need to incorporate that age-old concept of redemption into the work that we do in the criminal justice system in California.

— Kamala Harris

They're criminals, they brutalized Afghanistan, they killed our people, they destroyed our land.

— Hamid Karzai

There are over 500,000 registered sex offenders across the country, and statistics have shown that the recidivism rate for those criminals is high.

— Jim Sensenbrenner

Discovering witnesses is just as important as catching criminals.

— Simon Wiesenthal

The proliferation of right-to-carry laws throughout the states has drawn plaintive complaints from the criminal element. They feel that it makes their…

— Jeff Cooper

What most needs explanation is not why some people are criminals, but why most people are not.

— James Q. Wilson

A criminal trial is never about seeking justice for the victim. If it were, there could be only one verdict: guilty.

— Alan Dershowitz

Nobody can really compare a relationship in which the victim is 15 years old to one where she's 6. While both criminal,…

— Steven Wright

Humanity is not perfect in any fashion; no more in the case of evil than in that of good. The criminal has…

— Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

New Orleans food is as delicious as the less criminal forms of sin.

— Mark Twain

Sometimes the law defends plunder and participates in it. Sometimes the law places the whole apparatus of judges, police, prisons and gendarmes…

— Frederic Bastiat

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

— Charles Evans Hughes

In Holland I have seen well-meaning, principled people blinded by multiculturalism, overwhelmed by the imperative to be sensitive and respectful of immigrant…

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

If, indeed, a firearm were more dangerous to its possessors than to potential aggressors, would it not make sense for the government…

— David Mamet

If all boys could be made to know that with every breath of cigarette smoke they inhale imbecility and exhale manhood ...…

— Hudson Maxim

Yet only the atrocities of the conquered are referred to as criminal acts; those of the conqueror are justified as necessary, heroic,…

— Jim Fergus

No one prepares you at 7 years of age to have your father tell you he is a criminal - you are…

— Juan Pablo Escobar

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

There are likable characters in prison. Sometimes the worst criminals are also some of the most charming people.

— Taryn Manning

Stealing to eat ain’t criminal—stealing to be rich is.

— Andrew Vachss

In the case of The Thin Blue Line, I was surprised actually by many things. I was shooting down in Texas where…

— Errol Morris

There is all the difference in the world between the criminal's avoiding the public eye and the civil disobedience's taking the law…

— Hannah Arendt

For an act may be wrong judged purely by itself, but when the motive that prompted the act is understood, it is…

— Elizabeth Keckley

He [Donald Trump] is like - he's a magnet for crime and extortion and, you know, just really criminal investments which are…

— Jill Stein

Danger arouses interest. Where death is involved, the vilest criminal invariably stirs a little compassion.

— Honore de Balzac