Criminals Quotes - Page 32

• 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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• Freedom without opportunity is a devil's gift, and the refusal to provide such opportunities is criminal

  Noam Chomsky

  Opportunity, Devil, Refusal

  Noam Chomsky (1999). “Profit Over People: Neoliberalism and Global Order”, p.91, Seven Stories Press

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• The criminal law needs to be improved to meet new forms of crime, but to denounce financial devices which are useful and legitimate because use is made of them for fraud, is ridiculous and unworthy of the age in which we live.

  William Graham Sumner

  Law, Hype, Age

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• In modern Russia, you have no official, formal assessment of this past. Nobody in any Russian document has said that the policy of the Soviet government was criminal, that it was terrible. No one has ever said this.

  Ryszard Kapuscinski

  Past, Russia, Government

  "An Interview with Ryszard Kapuscinski: Writing about Suffering". Interview With Thomas Wolfe, quod.lib.umich.edu. 1998.

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• A society should be judged not by how it treats its outstanding citizens but by how it treats its criminals.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Citizens, Prison, Should

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• To be an effective criminal defense counsel, an attorney must be prepared to be demanding, outrageous, irreverent, blasphemous, a rogue, a renegade, and a hated, isolated, and lonely person - few love a spokesman for the despised and the damned.

  Clarence Darrow

  Love, Lonely, Age

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• Murder is a horror, but an often necessary horror, never criminal, which it is essential to tolerate in a republican State. Is it or is it not a crime? If it is not, why make laws for its punishment? And if it is, by what barbarous logic do you, to punish it, duplicate it by another crime?

  Marquis de Sade

  Law, Punishment, Essentials

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• These men [medical doctors] plan ways of doubling their incomes and come to the public with the plea that they are sincerely interested in the health and welfare of our children and that they put over their income-increasing programs for the health of our babies and for the welfare of the school children. They are as cold-blooded as any class of criminals on the whole earth. Indeed, I know of no other class of criminals who live by crippling, maiming and killing babies and children.

  Herbert M. Shelton

  Baby, Children, School

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• ...this new idea of cure instead of punishment, so humane in seeming, had in fact deprived the criminal of all rights and by taking away the name Punishment made the thing infinite.

  C. S. Lewis

  Rights, Punishment, Names

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• Hollywood no longer depicts reporters in ruthless pursuit of criminals, high and low. Now they are the criminals.

  Frank Rich

  Hollywood, Propaganda, Lows

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• One of greatest thieves this world has is procrastination, and he is still at large. Are we aiding and abetting the criminal?

  Sterling W Sill

  Procrastination, Thieves, World

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• 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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