Criminals Quotes - Page 9

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

  Allen Tucker

  Funny, Humor, Government

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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'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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• If you do not want the State to act like a criminal, you must disarm it as you would a criminal; you must keep it weak. The State will always be criminal in proportion to its strength; a weak State will always be as criminal as it can be, or dare be, but if it is kept down to the proper limit of weakness - which, by the way, is a vast deal lower limit than people are led to believe - its criminality may be safely got on with.

  Albert J. Nock

  Believe, People, Weakness

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• Taking the State wherever found, striking into its history at any point, one sees no way to differentiate the activities of its founders, administrators and beneficiaries from those of a professional-criminal class.

  Albert J. Nock

  Class, Way, States

  "Our Enemy, the State" by Albert J. Nock (p. 50), 1935.

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• One of the hardest questions I have been asked is 'How will you manage the army if you are having menstrual cramps?' I have also been asked if I will have the courage to face criminals. My answer is that courage is not a matter of gender.

  Josefina Vazquez Mota

  Army, Answers, Matter

  "Josefina Vazquez Mota Challenges Mexico's Machismo". "El Universal" Newspaper, www.foxnews.com. February 7, 2012.

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• In a laissez-faire society, there could exist no public institution with the power to forcefully protect people from themselves. From other people (criminals), yes. From one's own self, no.

  Karl Hess

  Self, People, Laissez Faire

  L. K. Samuels, Thomas Szasz, Douglas Casey, Brian Clelland, David Friedman (2017). “Facets of Liberty: A Libertarian Primer”, p.48, BookBaby

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• Any time, every time, you can damn the Prime Minister and so long as it is not a lie and a criminal lie, nothing happens to you.  You can say a lot of things.  You can write books about him, damning him.  So long as it is not a libel, go ahead.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Lying, Book, Writing

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• I'm a Christian. I'm committed to Jesus Christ and I want people to know about Christ, because it's the most wonderful thing. People can say, 'I'll try and give up drugs,' or 'I'll try and live a better life,' but actually, if you're trapped in that lifestyle, you need, I think, some supernatural power to get you out of it. It's not easy to get out of the kind of lifestyles those people are in where all your family are criminals and all your friends are criminals - that is not an easy break to make, and it is a hard thing for a lot of these people.

  Nicky Gumbel

  Christian, Jesus, Giving Up

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• I think it can be shown that the law makes ten criminals where it restrains one.

  Voltairine de Cleyre

  Thinking, Law, Ten

  Voltairine De Cleyre (2004). “The Voltairine de Cleyre Reader”, A K PressDistribution

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• If all boys could be made to know that with every breath of cigarette smoke they inhale imbecility and exhale manhood ... and that the cigarette is a maker of invalids, criminals and fools-not men-it ought to deter them some. The yellow finger stain is an emblem of deeper degradation and enslavement than the ball and chain.

  Hudson Maxim

  Boys, Men, Cigarette Smoke

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• We need to make a distinction between misled Iraqis, those who believe that they are carrying weapons to liberate Iraq from what they call occupation, and criminal gangs that came from outside and wants to wage a deadly war on the Iraqi people, killing women and children in mosques and churches.

  Jalal Talabani

  Children, War, Lying

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• [Computer viruses] switch from one country to another, from one jurisdiction to another - moving around the world, using the fact that we don't have the capability to globally police operations like this. So the Internet is as if someone [had] given free plane tickets to all the online criminals of the world.

  Mikko Hypponen

  Country, Motivation, Moving

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• The Children's Safety Act will help protect children from the perpetrators of these vile crimes by strengthening notification requirements for sex offenders and increasing criminal penalties.

  James T. Walsh

  Sex, Children, Safety

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• We think it's reasonable to provide mandatory instant criminal background checks for every sale at every gun show. No loopholes anywhere for anyone.

  Wayne LaPierre

  Thinking, Gun, Checks

  "Meet the Press" with Chuck Todd, www.nbcnews.com. January 30, 2014.

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• When it comes to the issue of background checks, let's be honest - background checks will never be 'universal' - because criminals will never submit to them.

  Wayne LaPierre

  Issues, Honest, Checks

  "NRA: More Gun Control Not A Serious Proposal" by Christina Wilkie, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 29, 2013.

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• Now, get this as a technical fact, not a hopeful idea. Every time we have investigated the background of a critic of Scientology, we have found crimes for which that person or group could be imprisoned under existing law. We do not find critics of Scientology who do not have criminal pasts.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Past, Law, Ideas

  "Critics of Scientology". Scientology Bulletin, suppressiveperson.org. November 05, 1967.

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• Ireland that has wronged no man, that has injured no land, that has sought no
  dominion over others. Ireland is treated today among other nations of the world as if she was a convicted criminal. If it be treason to fight against such an unnatural fate as this, then I am proud to be a rebel and shall cling to my rebellion with the last drop of my blood.

  Roger Casement

  Patriotic, Fate, Pride

  Sir Roger Casement (1917). “Trial of Sir Roger Casement”, Canada Law Book

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• For a lawyer to do less than his utmost is, I strongly feel, a betrayal of his client. Though in criminal trials one tends to focus on the defense attorney and his client the accused, the prosecutor is also a lawyer, and he too has a client: the People. And the People are equally entitled to their day in court, to a fair and impartial trial, and to justice.

  Vincent Bugliosi

  Betrayal, People, Justice

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