Criminals Quotes

• The world is filled with violence. Because criminals carry guns, we decent law-abiding citizens should also have guns. Otherwise, they will win and the decent people will lose.

  James Earl Jones

  Gun, Winning, Law

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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  We don't give our criminals much punishment, but we sure give 'em plenty of publicity.

  Will Rogers

  Punishment, Giving, Police

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1995). “Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)”, M Evans & Company

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• The first lines of defence against criminals are the victims themselves.

  Michael Badnarik

  Lines, Firsts, Victim

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  The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.

  Ayn Rand

  Wisdom, Power, Men

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.334, Hamilton Books

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• It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native criminal class except Congress.

  Mark Twain

  Class, Literature, Politics

  Following the Equator ch. 8, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" (1897)

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• Far too often we see attention paid to the firearm and not the criminal.

  Jeff Miller

  Attention, Paid, Firearms

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• Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.

  Bertrand Russell

  Funny, Life, Competition

  Bertrand Russell (2002). “The Selected Letters of Bertrand Russell: The Public Years, 1914-1970”, p.215, Psychology Press

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• In brief, when a man fails as a wallet, we put him in prison; when a woman fails as a mother, we offer her social services. We're taking a criminal approach to men, a social services approach to women.

  Warren Farrell

  Mother, Men, Prison

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• Murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Mistake, Humor

  1891 The Picture of Dorian Gray, ch.19.

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• Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Men, Hands, Law

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “George Bernard Shaw: Collected Articles, Lectures, Essays and Letters: Thoughts and Studies from the Renowned Dramaturge and Author of Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Pygmalion, Arms and The Man, Saint Joan, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.308, e-artnow

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• How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!

  Michel de Montaigne

  Inspirational, Crime, Condemnation

  Michel de Montaigne (1946). “The essays”

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• I think that NATO is itself a war criminal.

  Harold Pinter

  War, Thinking, Literature

  Interview with Ramona Koval, www.abc.net.au. December 22, 2002.

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• I've been lucky-my looks haven't put me into one category. I don't look like a blue blood. I don't look like a criminal. I don't look like anything.

  Tim Robbins

  Blue, Blood, Lucky

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• Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.

  Friedrich Engels

  Philosophical, Law, Crime

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• We enact many laws that manufacture criminals, and then a few that punish them.

  Allen Tucker

  Funny, Humor, Government

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• And who are the greater criminals-those who sell the instruments of death, or those who buy them and use them?

  Robert E. Sherwood

  Funny, Humor, Use

  "Fictional chracter: Achille Weber". "Idiot's Delight", www.imdb.com. 1939.

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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 not ridiculously otherwise.

  Frank Moore Colby

  Wise, Humble, Politics

  Frank Moore Colby (1926). “The pursuit of humor and other essays”

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• Since the Puffy Combs case in New York, I will not try any more criminal cases

  Johnnie Cochran

  New York, Trying, Cases

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• I'm real bent on dialogue. I'm just a little bit crazy and when you put that along with 20 years as a criminal lawyer, it's pretty easy to come up with some interesting plots.

  Christopher Darden

  Crazy, Real, Years

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• I have too great a soul to die like a criminal.

  John Wilkes Booth

  Soul, Dies

  John Wilkes Booth (2000). “Right Or Wrong, God Judge Me: The Writings of John Wilkes Booth”, p.155, University of Illinois Press

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• When the penalty for a policeman's mistake is to put a criminal back out on the street, then we are hurting America; we are hurting our law-abiding citizens.

  Gary Bauer

  Hurt, Mistake, Law

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• I am no longer a criminal. I gave up that practice years ago.

  Ronald Biggs

  Years, Practice, Gave Up

  "Ronnie Biggs's best quotes while on the run" by the Press Association, www.theguardian.com. December 18, 2013.

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• You might as well ask why a middle-aged man with no criminal record might put a paper bag over his head and rob a bank. I acted out of personal desperation.

  Aldrich Ames

  Men, Might, Bags

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• 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 of society, and will end up a criminal.

  Xunzi

  Nature, Giving, Way

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• I just produced Criminal, this remake of Nine Queens, and one of the things that appealed to me about Nine Queens is that it was a performance piece, and that's the most fun.

  Steven Soderbergh

  Queens, Fun, Pieces

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