Criminals Quotes - Page 18

• I always watched movies and rooted for the bad guys, you know? I've always been that kind of guy. I still hold some respect for criminals that are good at their jobs.

  Justin Townes Earle

  Jobs, Guy, Kind

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• 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

  Beautiful, Artist, Deeds

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2013). “The Selected Writings of Friedrich Nietzsche”, p.585, Simon and Schuster

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• 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 remorse.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Judging, Faces, Quiet

  "The Flies". Book by Jean-Paul Sartre, act 1, 1943.

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• Race determines everything in the criminal justice system.

  Mark Geragos

  Race, Justice, Determine

  "Exclusive: Juror pushes for new laws following Zimmerman trial" By Josh Levs. Dana Ford, www.cnn.com. July 18, 2013.

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• Women need to become literary "criminals," break the literary laws and reinvent their own, because the established laws prevent women from presenting the reality of their lives.

  Kathy Acker

  Women, Writing, Reality

  "Bodies of Work". Book by Kathy Acker, 1996.

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• Even an attorney of moderate talent can postpone doomsday year after year, for the system of appeals that pervades American jurisprudence amounts to a legalistic wheel of fortune, a game of
  chance, somewhat fixed in the favor of the criminal, that the participants play interminably.

  Truman Capote

  Years, Games, Play

  1965 In Cold Blood, ch.4.

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• 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 criminal.

  Nikola Tesla

  Normal, Century, Mates

  "Machine to End War by Nikola Tesla as told to George Sylvester Viereck". "Liberty", www.pbs.org. February 1937.

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• 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

  War, Justice, Roles

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• If certain acts in violation of treaties are crimes, they are crimes whether the United States does them or whether Germany does them, and we are not prepared to lay down a rule of criminal conduct against others which we would not be willing to have invoked against us.

  Robert H. Jackson

  United States, Doe, Germany

  International Conference on Military Trials in London, 1945. Minutes of Conference Session, avalon.law.yale.edu. July 23, 1945.

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• Why do we put people who are on drugs in jail? They're sick, they're not criminals. Sick people don't get healed in prison. You see? It makes no sense.

  Bill Hicks

  Jail, People, Sick

  "Rant in E-Minor". Comedy album by Bill Hicks, 1997.

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• 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. Youths are conservatives, with a dash of criminal negligence. Men in their prime are liberals (as long as their digestion keeps pace with their intellect). The middle aged run to shelter: they insure their life, draft a will, accumulate mementos and occasional tables, and hope for security. And then comes old age, which repeats childhood - a time full of humors and sadness, but often full of courage and even prophecy.

  E. B. White

  Running, Children, Sadness

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• The criminal, like the artist, is a social explorer.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Artist, Social, Explorers

  "Marshall McLuhan, Author, Dies; Declared 'Medium Is the Message'" by Alden Whitman, www.nytimes.com. January 1, 1981.

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• It has become increasingly clear that Hungarian authorities are encouraging the whitewashing of tragic and criminal episodes in Hungary's past, namely the wartime Hungarian governments' involvement in the deportation and murder of hundreds of thousands of its Jewish citizens. I found it outrageous that the Speaker of the Hungarian National Assembly could participate in a ceremony honoring a Hungarian fascist ideologue

  Elie Wiesel

  Past, Government, Citizens

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• What is considered sinful in one of the great religions to which citizens belong isn't necessarily sinful in the others. Criminal law therefore cannot be based on the notion of sin; it is crimes that it must define.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Law, Citizens, Sin

  Pierre Elliott Trudeau (1995). “Memoirs”, McClelland & Stewart Limited

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• We’re being ripped off and screwed by a bunch of liars, thieves, crooks, and criminals, and they’re not the folks below. Don’t look in the streets, look in the corporate suites.

  Jerry Brown

  Liars, Thieves, Crooks

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• If, in looking at the lives of princes, courtiers, men of rank and fashion, we must perforce depict them as idle, profligate, and criminal, we must make allowances for the rich men's failings, and recollect that we, too, were very likely indolent and voluptuous, had we no motive for work, a mortal's natural taste for pleasure, and the daily temptation of a large income. What could a great peer, with a great castle and park, and a great fortune, do but be splendid and idle?

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Fashion, Men, Temptation

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1869). “Miscellanies: The four Georges. The English humorists. Roundabout papers”, p.38

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• Criminals have the same aspirations as everyone else. That's why they become criminals.

  Michael Dibdin

  Aspiration

  FaceBook post by Michael Dibdin from May 17, 2012

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• Peace talk when war is impending is hazardous for the talker, and in war time it is criminal. War talk in peace time, which is infinitely more wicked, runs no risk at all.

  Charles Clayton Morrison

  Running, War, Risk

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• Just imagine if I would have come back to Germany with a victory. I had nothing to do with the Nazis, but they would have given me a medal. After the war I might have been considered a war criminal.

  Max Schmeling

  War, Victory, Germany

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• When you decide to be something, you can be it. That's what they don't tell you in the church. When I was your age, they would say we can become cops or criminals. Today, what I'm saying to you is this: when you're facing a loaded gun, what's the difference?

  Frank Costello

  Gun, Differences, Departed

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• The American people might have a criminal syndicate running their government.

  Cynthia McKinney

  Running, Government, People

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• You have to understand where you are on the continuum. I feel I have to be the criminal mastermind on the mound if I want to win.

  C. J. Wilson

  Winning, Want, Where You Are

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• Bad art was as good as good art. Grammar and spelling were no longer important. To be clean was no better than to be filthy. Good manners were no better than bad. Family life was derided as an outdated bourgeois concept. Criminals deserved as much sympathy as their victims. Many homes and classrooms became disorderly - if there was neither right nor wrong there could be no basis for punishment or reward. Violence and soft pornography became accepted in the media. Thus was sown the wind, and we are now reaping the whirlwind.

  Norman Tebbit

  Art, Home, Media

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• If you close your eyes you can imagine the hackers sitting in a room, combing through the documents to find the ones that will draw the most blood. And in a room next door are American journalists doing the same thing. As demented and criminal as it is, at least the hackers are doing it for a cause. The press is doing it for a nickel.

  Aaron Sorkin

  Eye, Doors, Blood

  "The Sony Hack and the Yellow Pres" by Aaron Sorkin, www.nytimes.com. December 14, 2014.

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• I don't believe in having spaces in the home that don't get used. We pay so much for square footage that to waste it is criminal.

  Nate Berkus

  Believe, Home, Squares

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