Criminal Quotes

759 Criminal quotes by 590 unique authors

Historically, terrorism falls in a category different from crimes that concern a criminal court judge. — Jurgen Habermas
A judge who cannot punish, in the end associates themselves with the criminal. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I suppose if I had lost the war, I would have been tried as a war criminal.... Every soldier thinks something of the moral aspects… — Curtis LeMay
To dope the racer is as criminal, as sacrilegious, as trying to imitate God; it is stealing from God the privilege of the spark. — Roland Barthes
It's just the stupidest law possible... You're just making criminals out of people who aren't engaged in criminal activity. And we're spending zillions of dollars… — Morgan Freeman
Muhammad professed to derive from Heaven, and he has inserted in the Koran, not only a body of religious doctrines, but political maxims, civil and… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Islam has a total organization of life that is completely different from ours; it embraces simply everything,...There is a very marked subordination of woman to… — Pope Benedict XVI
That a thing is peculiar; is no argument for its being blamable; since the most criminal actions are to a being like man not more… — John Stuart Mill
A totally different attitude is needed: the attitude of love. Christ brings love to the world. He destroys law, the very basis of it. That… — Rajneesh
Thus the criminal ceases to be a person, a subject of rights and duties, and becomes merely an object on which society can work. And… — C.S. Lewis
It is because we don't know who we are, because we are unaware that the Kingdom of Heaven is within us, that we behave in… — Aldous Huxley
Knowledge is like a knife. In the hands of a well-balanced adult it is an instrument for good of inestimable value; but in the hands… — Leo Baekeland
American citizens are instrumental in carrying on a traffic in enslaved Africans, equally in violation of the laws of humanity and in defiance of those… — James Madison
To be a criminal needs great unconsciousness. Meditation destroys your unconsciousness, opens the doors of light and suddenly what you were doing in the darkness… — Rajneesh
Do not be merciful, but be just, for mercy is bestowed upon the guilty criminal, while Justice is all that the innocent man requires. — Khalil Gibran
No matter how one approaches the figures, one is forced to the rather startling conclusion that the use of firearms in crime was very much… — Colin Greenwood
If gun laws in fact worked, the sponsors of this type of legislation should have no difficulty drawing upon long lists of examples of criminal… — Orrin Hatch
I don't believe anybody has a right to own any kind of a firearm. I believe in order to obtain a permit to own a… — John Silber
An inmate in a Florida prison wrote to agree with me on the availability of guns, saying that a 'criminal can and will get a… — Thomas Sowell
A criminal trial is like a cultural in-flight test in which society projects its own history, fears, impatience, insolence, clemency, insecurities, dreams and nightmares upon… — Ron Franscell
With the greatest respect, we do not make the criminal law on the basis of opinion polls. A majority of 9:1 could be in favour… — Kenneth Clarke
Although prison officials have long battled illegal cellphones, smartphones have changed the game. With Internet access, a prisoner can call up phone directories, maps and… — Kim Severson
What borders on the criminal is the poor teaching and neglect of those subjects that deal with the history of ideas and ideals, a knowledge… — John Mortimer Smith
The prospect of a government that treats all its citizens as criminal suspects is more terrifying than any terrorist. And even more frightening is a… — Joseph Sobran
As witnesses not of our intentions but of our conduct, we can be true or false, and the hypocrite's crime is that he bears false… — Hannah Arendt

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