Best Criminal Sayings
759 Criminal quotes by 590 unique authors
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I threw my whole life and lived my life in a certain way to make sure that I would never violate any law.. certainly never…
— Kenneth Lay
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Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.
— Friedrich Engels
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Probably fewer than 2% of handguns and well under 1% of all guns will ever be involved in a violent crime. Thus, the problem of…
— Gary Kleck
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A handgun ban is not realistically enforceable. Confiscating guns would require house-to-house searches and alienate the very individuals whose compliance is essential to the success…
— Don Kates
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We cannot be sure that we ought not to regard the most criminal country as that which in some aspects possesses the highest civilization.
— Havelock Ellis
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Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear.
— Karl Kraus
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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…
— George Carlin
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If he who breaks the law is not punished, he who obeys it is cheated. This, and this alone, is why lawbreakers ought to be…
— Thomas Szasz
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Ignorance, when it is voluntary, is criminal; and he may be properly charged with evil who refused to learn how he might prevent it.
— Samuel Johnson
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There has been no clearer principle of English or American constitutional law than that, in criminal cases, it is not only the power and duty…
— Lysander Spooner
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We can no longer tolerate what's going on in Ottawa and Edmonton. What I would challenge you to do is to put a lot of…
— David Suzuki
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If it is a crime to love the South, its cause and its President, then I am a criminal. I would rather lie down in…
— Belle Boyd
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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
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What is a war criminal? Was not war itself a crime against God and humanity, and, therefore, were not all those who sanctioned, engineered, and…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Once we ask why it should be that all human beings - including infants, the intellectually disabled, criminal psychopaths, Hitler, Stalin, and the rest -…
— Peter Singer
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The custom of saluting [i.e., embracing] ladies by their relatives and friends was introduced, it is said, by the early Romans, not out of respect…
— Joseph Haydn
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I think the clearest manifestation for anyone who doubts that racism and classism exist in America, all one need do is take a real serious…
— Tim McDonald
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Capital punishment, like the rest of the criminal justice system, is a government program, so skepticism is in order.
— George Will
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For years I supported capital punishment, but I have come to believe that our criminal justice system is incapable of adequately distinguishing between the innocent…
— James Frey
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Our emotions may cry for vengeance in the wake of a horrible crime, but we know that killing the criminal will not undo the crime,…
— Ramsey Clark
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From the point of view of the economy, the sale of weapons is indistinguishable from the sale of food. When a building collapses or a…
— Eduardo Galeano
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The love of money as a possession-as distinguished from the love of money as a means to the enjoyments and realities of life-will be recognized…
— John Maynard Keynes
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Political economy regards the proletarian like a horse, he must receive enough to enable him to work. It does not consider him, during the time…
— Karl Marx
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Violence toward women isn't cultural; it's criminal.
— Hillary Clinton
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It doesn't dawn on this depraved bourgeois world that this is positively a sin against all reason; that it is criminal lunacy to keep on…
— Adolf Hitler
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