Criminals Quote by Margaret Deland

“I notice that when people have no sense of responsibility, you call them either criminals or geniuses.” quote by Margaret Deland — Download Open image

“I notice that when people have no sense of responsibility, you call them either criminals or geniuses.”

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the attempt to break a habit of years is necessarily experimental.

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Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation.

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Hearts don't come when Reason whistles to 'em.

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I have no faith in a human critter who hasn't one or two bad habits.

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To talk over a quarrel, with its inevitable accompaniment of self-justification, is too much like handling cobwebs to be very successful.

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Discovering witnesses is just as important as catching criminals.

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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…

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

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

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

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