Criminals Quotes - Page 31

• Don't try to be fancy. Shoot for the center of mass. The world is full of decent people. Criminals we can do without.

  Jeff Cooper

  People, Trying, World

  Jeff Cooper (2006). “Principles of Personal Defense: Revised Edition”, p.44, Paladin Press

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• The criminal does not expect his prey to fight back. May he never choose you, but, if he does, surprise him.

  Jeff Cooper

  Fighting, Doe, May

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• It is high time for society to stop worrying about the criminal, and to let the criminal start worrying about society. And by "society" I mean you.

  Jeff Cooper

  Mean, Worry, Self Defense

  Jeff Cooper (2006). “Principles of Personal Defense: Revised Edition”, p.51, Paladin Press

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• The moment you function in the world without being concerned about what is happening to life around you, you are a Criminal.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Love, Life, Meditation

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• Society does not go down because of the activities of criminals,
  But because of the inactivities of the good people.

  Swami Vivekananda

  People, Doe, Inactivity

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• No man can delegate,... any right of arbitrary dominion over a 3rd person; for that would imply a right in the 1st person, not only to make the 3rd person his slave, but also a right to dispose of him as a slave to still other persons. Any contract to do this is necessarily a criminal one...To call such a contract a “constitution” does not at all lessen its criminality, or add to its validity.

  Lysander Spooner

  Men, Doe, Add

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• It is better to let 100 criminals go free than to imprison 1 innocent man.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Men, Innocent Man, Innocent

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• Why is non-commercial public expression considered criminal?

  Shepard Fairey

  Expression

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• Female genital mutilation targets little girls, baby girls - fragile angels who are helpless, who cannot fight back. It's a crime against a child, a crime against humanity. It's abuse. It's absolutely criminal and we have to stop it.

  Waris Dirie

  Girl, Baby, Children

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• More terrorists are given training and sanctuary in the United States than anywhere on earth. They include mass murderers, torturers, former and future tyrants and assorted international criminals. This is virtually unknown to the American public, thanks to the freest media on earth.

  John Pilger

  Media, Tyrants, Training

  "The great charade". www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2002.

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• Our criminal justice system has swallowed up too many people I love.

  Michael K. Williams

  People, Justice, Criminal Justice System

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• Bottom line is that I have had a totally criminal moral code and operated with a totally criminal mind attitude that I have not fully confronted (even down to lying about lying and doing illegal things).

  Mike Rinder

  Attitude, Lying, Illegal Things

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• You know what? I’m sure drug dealers on the street, in some way, they are making money. That’s what I equate it to. Here is the thing: you have to understand, with psychiatry, there is no science behind it. And to pretend that there is a science behind it is criminal

  Tom Cruise

  Drug, Way, Making Money

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• Part of the reason why movie bosses are so obsessed with crime movies is because they know that world and the criminals. And that's what they are - they would not hesitate to act illegally to achieve profit and gain.

  Peter Mullan

  Boss, World, Gains

  Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2003.

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• Criminals are just regular people who didn’t have time to read all the laws.

  Mariska Hargitay

  Law, People

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• 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 up for trial. And I wouldn't join. And I understand that in certain capitals of, around the world that that wasn't a popular move. But it's the right move not to join a foreign court that could, where our people could be prosecuted.

  George W. Bush

  Moving, People, Judging

  "Robert Fisk on the Presidential Debate, Iraq, Palestine and the International Criminal Court". www.democracynow.org. October 01, 2004.

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• How awful for them [Hitler's victims] to see those swastikas, the SS men and the SA - people we'd never thought of as criminals.

  Leni Riefenstahl

  Men, People, Politics

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• I wonder that no criminal has ever pleaded the ugliness of your city as an excuse for his crimes.

  Oscar Wilde

  Cities, America, Wonder

  Oscar Wilde (2010). “Oscar Wilde in America: The Interviews”, p.70, University of Illinois Press

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• Would you have a strong and virile nation, keep your homes pure; would you reduce delinquency and crime, lessen the number of broken homes. It is time that civilized peoples realized that prevention is more profitable than punishment, and that the home is the incubator either of children of high character or of criminals. Home building, therefore, should be the paramount purpose of parents and of the nation.

  David O. McKay

  Strong, Children, Character

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• 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 laws to the conquerors.

  Seneca the Younger

  Israel, Law, Land

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• Two criminals were crucified with Christ. One was saved; do not despair. One was not; do not presume.

  Saint Augustine

  Hope, Two, Despair

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• 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 writer—I am merely a word criminal.

  Murong Xuecun

  Calling, Difficult, Uncomfortable

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• Each month there are numerous incidents where visitors are abducted by criminal groups - just long enough to withdraw the maximum amount of money from an ATM account.

  Mark Hall

  Long, Each Month, Groups

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• 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 (it is a) felony...The use of unproven methods is also a criminal offense in Colorado, Illinois, Kentucky, Maryland, Nevada, North Dakota, Ohio, and Pennsylvania.

  Jane Brody

  Cancer, Dark, Illinois

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• For my part I think it is a less evil that some criminals should escape, than that the government should play an ignoble part.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Thinking, Government, Play

  Olmstead v. United States (dissenting opinion) (1928)

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