Best Criminal Quotations
759 Criminal quotes by 590 unique authors
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Who knows if the one whose hands are bloodied with Father Grande's murder, or the one who shot Father Navarro, if those who have killed,…
— Oscar Romero
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Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calculated can be compared. For there to be an equivalency, the…
— Albert Camus
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The proliferation of right-to-carry laws throughout the states has drawn plaintive complaints from the criminal element. They feel that it makes their profession too dangerous…
— Jeff Cooper
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The press is so powerful in its image-making role, it can make a criminal look like he's the victim and make the victim look like…
— Malcolm X
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I take responsibility for what happened at Enron, both good and bad. But I cannot take responsibility for criminal conduct that I was unaware of.
— Kenneth Lay
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Who does Not Know the Truth, is simply a Fool... Yet who Knows the Truth and Calls it a Lie, is a Criminal.
— Bertolt Brecht
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The Nuremberg Trial of the German war criminals was tacitly based on the recognition of the principle: criminal actions cannot be excused if committed on…
— Albert Einstein
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The state governments have a full superintendence and control over the immense mass of local interests of their respective states, which connect themselves with the…
— Joseph Story
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There is one transcendant advantage belonging to the province of the State governments . . . -I mean the ordinary administration of criminal and civil…
— Alexander Hamilton
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What kind of victory is it when someone is left defeated? What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he…
— James Russell Lowell
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Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good who are not criminal and all are wise who are…
— Frank Moore Colby
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This is the criminal left that belongs not in a dormitory, but in a penitentiary. The criminal left is not a problem to be solved…
— Spiro T. Agnew
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Some of the politicians in this country, in their feverish search for group acceptance, are ready to endorse tumultuous confrontation as a substitute for debate,…
— Spiro T. Agnew
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The Department of Justice believes, and the case law supports, that the president has inherent authority to conduct warrantless physical searches for foreign intelligence purposes,…
— Unknown Author
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If someone doesn’t want to be a criminal anymore, I can give them tools that can better their life. You have no idea how many…
— Tom Cruise
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The interesting thing about Sherlock is that he is himself a reflection of that very English duality. As a drug addict, he is a criminal.…
— Rupert Everett
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After six wonderful years playing Emily Prentiss, I have decided it's time for me to move on. As much as I will miss my 'Criminal…
— Paget Brewster
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I was a criminal science fanatic and went to study it in college as well and I think that helped me [on NCIS] because I…
— Pauley Perrette
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The criminal ineptitude makes you furious.
— Bruce Springsteen
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We don't think a child of 13 should be held responsible as a man of 23. That's true for most people, but black males age…
— Ron Paul
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Given the inefficiencies of what D.C. laughingly calls the `criminal justice system,' I think we can safely assume that 95 percent of the black males…
— Ron Paul
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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…
— Ann Coulter
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Love is illegal - but not hate. That you can do anywhere, anytime, to anybody. But if you want a little warmth, a little tenderness,…
— Unknown Author
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Policemen and laws can never replace customs, traditions and moral values as a means for regulating human behavior. At best, the police and criminal justice…
— D. Todd Christofferson
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