Criminal Quotes

759 Criminal quotes by 590 unique authors

I wouldn't join the International Criminal Court. This is a body based in The Hague where unaccountable judges, prosecutors, could pull our troops, our diplomats… — George W. Bush
I wonder that no criminal has ever pleaded the ugliness of your city as an excuse for his crimes. — Oscar Wilde
The customs of that most criminal nation (Israel) have gained such strength that they have now been received in all lands. The conquered have given… — Seneca the Younger
It is difficult to call myself a writer, even when I stand at a podium to receive a prize, I feel uncomfortable calling myself a… — Murong Xuecun
Each month there are numerous incidents where visitors are abducted by criminal groups -- just long enough to withdraw the maximum amount of money from… — Mark Hall
In 1966 the ACS formulated a State Model Cancer Act which was instrumental in the enactment of anti-quackery laws now enforced in 9 states...In California… — Jane Brody
Freedom without opportunity is a devil's gift, and the refusal to provide such opportunities is criminal — Noam Chomsky
Thus, anybody who follows this nature and gives way its states will be led into quarrels and conflicts, and go against the conventions and rules… — Xunzi
The criminal law needs to be improved to meet new forms of crime, but to denounce financial devices which are useful and legitimate because use… — William Graham Sumner
In modern Russia, you have no official, formal assessment of this past. Nobody in any Russian document has said that the policy of the Soviet… — Ryszard Kapuscinski
To be an effective criminal defense counsel, an attorney must be prepared to be demanding, outrageous, irreverent, blasphemous, a rogue, a renegade, and a hated,… — Clarence Darrow
Murder is a horror, but an often necessary horror, never criminal, which it is essential to tolerate in a republican State. Is it or is… — Marquis de Sade
The American people do not want people thumbing their nose at the law. It undercuts the very fabric of our society and the system of… — Ernest Istook
Uncle Junior is a criminal, which makes him a villain, so it makes people want to watch him. My whole life as an actor has… — Dominic Chianese
...this new idea of cure instead of punishment, so humane in seeming, had in fact deprived the criminal of all rights and by taking away… — C.S. Lewis
One of greatest thieves this world has is procrastination, and he is still at large. Are we aiding and abetting the criminal? — Sterling W Sill
The advocates of a criminal are seldom artists enough to turn the beautiful terribleness of the deed to the advantage of the doer. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Be quiet! Anyone can spit in my face, and call me a criminal and a prostitute. But no one has the right to judge my… — Jean-Paul Sartre
Race determines everything in the criminal justice system — Mark Geragos
Too much virtue can be criminal. — Jean Racine
A century from now it will no more occur to a normal person to mate with a person eugenically unfit than to marry a habitual… — Nikola Tesla
I am ready to face the International Criminal Court of Justice at the Hague for prosecution over roles played by me when the war ended — Yakubu Gowon
If certain acts of violation of treaties are crimes, they are crimes whether the United States does them or whether Germany does them, and we… — Robert H. Jackson
A man's liberal and conservative phases seem to follow each other in a succession of waves from the time he is born. Children are radicals.… — Elwyn Brooks White
The criminal, like the artist, is a social explorer. — Marshall McLuhan

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