100+ Criminals Quotes | InspiringQuotes.us

source: Cesar Millan, Melissa Jo Peltier (2006). “Cesar's Way: The Natural, Everyday Guide to Understanding and Correcting Common Dog Problems”, p.230, Crown Archetype

topic: Dog, Criminals, Stopping, Bad Behavior

War should be made a crime, and those who instigate it should be punished as criminals.

- Charles Evans Hughes

source: "The Pathway of Peace". Speech to the Canadian Bar Association, Montreal, Ontario. "The Pathway of Peace : Representative Addresses Delivered During His Term as as secretary of state (1921-1925)" by Charles Evans Hughes, September 04, 1923.

topic: War, Criminals, Crime, Soldiers At War

I always wanted to be a criminal, but not this big a one.

- Charles Starkweather

topic: Criminals, Bigs, Wanted

Youth should learn to think and act as a mass.Â It is criminal to think as individuals!

- Che Guevara

topic: Thinking, Criminals, Youth

The Daily Mail can't say 'asylum-seeker' without saying 'foreign criminal' in the same sentence. I'm sure it's practically editorial policy.

- Chris Cleave

topic: Criminals, Asylum Seekers, Asylums, Daily Mail

Even a criminal has the right to a new life, but they made sure I did not have that. They just didn't stop calling me a prostitute for ever and ever and ever and ever.

- Christine Keeler

source: "The lady's not a tramp" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2001.

topic: Calling, Criminals, New Life

A so-called 'blackout' is yet another gimmick, albeit a dangerous one, designed to punish elected and administration officials who are working diligently to protect American jobs from foreign criminals,

- Christopher Dodd

topic: Jobs, Criminals, Administration, Blackouts, American Jobs

Religious doctrines do not and clearly cannot be adopted as the criminal code of a state.

- Clarence Darrow

topic: Religious, Criminals, Doctrine

If we become an accomplice to criminal activities by the American government, then we are liable too.

- Clive Stafford Smith

topic: Government, Criminals, Liable, Accomplices

No matter how one approaches the figures, one is forced to the rather startling conclusion that the use of firearms in crime was very much less when there were no controls of any sort and when anyone, convicted criminal or lunatic, could buy any type of firearm without restriction. Half a century of strict controls on pistols has ended, perversely, with a far greater use of this weapon in crime than ever before.

- Colin Greenwood

topic: Gun, Criminals, Use, Firearms, Half A Century

I got the chance to argue my first case in Supreme Court, a criminal case arising in Alabama that involved the right of a defendant to counsel at a critical stage in a capital case before a trial.

- Constance Baker Motley

topic: Criminals, Alabama, Trials

If we'd lost the war, we'd all have been prosecuted as war criminals.

- Curtis LeMay

source: Robert S. McNamara (2004). “Official Teacher's Guide for The Fog of War: An Errol Morris Film”

topic: War, Criminals, Lost

Killing Japanese didn't bother me very much at that time... I suppose if I had lost the war, I would have been tried as a war criminal.

- Curtis LeMay

topic: War, Criminals, Killing

If Americans actually have the conversation about our disastrous prison policies, we'll understand the trends all move in very dangerous directions: we lock up more people, for less violent crime, at ever greater expense, breeding more dangerous criminals who often come out unemployable, violent and isiolated.

- Dahlia Lithwick

topic: Moving, People, Criminals, Lock Up, Violent Crimes

My overriding belief is that it is always possible for criminals to improve and that by its very finality the death penalty contradicts this.

- Dalai Lama

topic: Criminals, Belief, Death Penalty, Against Death Penalty

I'm Dan Gelber. As a federal prosecutor, I helped put away corporate criminals, corrupt politicians and violent gangs.

- Dan Gelber

topic: Criminals, Gang, Politician

Criminals should be punished, not fed pastries.

- Daniel Handler

topic: Criminals, Should, Pastries

There is a difference between the inmates of your criminal prisons and the inmates of your cultural prison: The former understand that the distribution of wealth and power inside the prison had nothing to do with justice.

- Daniel Quinn

topic: Differences, Justice, Criminals, Distribution Of Wealth

There are criminals who are drug users, but most addicts are criminals only by virtue of prohibition or from resorting to crime to pay inflated black market prices.

- Danny Sugerman

topic: Drug, Black, Criminals

My father is a practicing criminal law attorney in the Seattle area.

- David Guterson

topic: Father, Law, Criminals, Practicing Law, Criminal Law

Many conspiracies are not criminal, even conspiracies that involve slamming somebody.

- David Shuster

source: «Hardball with Chris Matthews», www.nbcnews.com. October 17.

topic: Criminals, Conspiracy

It seems that in Baltimore, one of the most violent cities in America, jurors are far more reluctant to convict criminal defendants than in the suburban enclaves that ring the city.

- David Simon

topic: Cities, America, Criminals, Jurors, Convicts

Every good army needs a couple of criminals.

- Dean Lombardi

topic: Couple, Army, Criminals

It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.

- Don Marquis

source: "Story of a Feather", in "Punch", Volume V, p. 55, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 911-17, 1922.

topic: Pregnancy, People, Criminals, Underworld

When you print out your manuscript and read it, marking up with a pen, it sometimes feels like a criminal returning to the scene of a crime.

- Don Roff

topic: Criminals, Sometimes, Crime

She must be assured that it is not a criminal offense to love at first sight.

- E. M. Forster

topic: Sight, Criminals, Firsts

Life and liberty can be as much endangered from illegal methods used to convict those thought to be criminals as from the actual criminals themselves.

- Earl Warren

topic: Liberty, Criminals, Used

An artist must approach his work in the spirit of the criminal about to commit a crime.

- Edgar Degas

topic: Artist, Criminals, Spirit

It is a characteristic of the weak and criminal to attribute to others the misfortunes that are the result of their own wickedness.

- Edgar Rice Burroughs

source: Edgar Rice Burroughs (2015). “The Son of Tarzan: Mystery & Adventure Story”, p.18, 谷月社

topic: Criminals, Wickedness, Weak

From the point of view of the economy, the sale of weapons is indistinguishable from the sale of food. When a building collapses or a plane crashes, it?s rather inconvenient from the point of view of those inside, but it?s altogether convenient for the growth of the gross national product, which sometimes ought to be called the "gross criminal product."

- Eduardo Galeano

topic: Views, Growth, Criminals, Plane Crashes

The propaganda system allows the U.S. Ieadership to commit crimes without limit and with no suggestion of misbehavior or criminality; in fact, major war criminals like Henry Kissinger appear regularly on TV to comment on the crimes of the derivative butchers.

- Edward S. Herman

topic: War, Criminals, Suggestions, Kissinger, Butchers

Anybody who's against birth control and abortion has to be a criminal idiot.

- Eleanor Clark

source: Eleanor Clark (1978). “Eyes, etc: a memoir”, HarperCollins

topic: Abortion, Criminals, Birth Control

Every single human being is a unique human being. And, therefore, it's so criminal to do something to that human being, because he or she represents humanity.

- Elie Wiesel

topic: Unique, Humanity, Criminals

Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.

- Elizabeth Fry

source: Quoted in Rachel E Cresswell and Katharine Fry Memoir of the Life of Elizabeth Fry (1848).

topic: Revenge, Punishment, Criminals

...congenital killers and criminals are possessed of not one but two Y chromosomes, bearing a double dose, as it were, of genetically undesirable maleness.

- Elizabeth Gould Davis

topic: Men, Two, Criminals, Chromosomes, Maleness

For an act may be wrong judged purely by itself, but when the motive that prompted the act is understood, it is construed differently. I lay it down as an axiom, that only that is criminal in the sight of God where crime is meditated.

- Elizabeth Keckley

source: Elizabeth Keckley (2016). “Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House”, p.11, Enhanced Media Publishing

topic: Sight, Criminals, May

I've always been tremendously interested in criminal law. It goes to a deep interest I have in prisons and the criminal element, and what we do as a society with it. I've always been touched by the idea of criminality.

- Elizabeth Strout

source: "Elizabeth Strout on 'The Burgess Boys'". Interview with Dylan Foley, www.chicagotribune.com. March 23, 2013.

topic: Law, Ideas, Criminals, Criminality, Criminal Law

Consular offices make no attempt to determine whether the person obtaining the card is legally in the United States. In fact, the only people who need these cards are illegal immigrants, criminals and terrorists. Consular cards also are easily forged.

- Elton Gallegly

topic: People, Office, Criminals, Forged

I'm certainly not suggesting legalization of polyamory. But it's also unfairly judgmental of you to compare such relationships to the criminal acts of ***** or child sexual abuse.

- Emily Yoffe

topic: Children, Abuse, Criminals, Polyamory

Every society has the criminals it deserves.

- Emma Goldman

topic: Criminals, Deserve

The partisan wants to change the law, the criminal break it; the anarch wants neither. He is not for or against the law. While not acknowledging the law, he does try to recognize it like the laws of nature, and he adjusts accordingly.

- Ernst Junger

topic: Law, Trying, Criminals

The Federal Reserve System is not Federal; it has no reserves; and it is not a system at all, but rather, a criminal syndicate.

- Eustace Mullins

topic: Criminals, Syndicate, Federal Reserve

I would strongly recommend any young man to stay away from criminal law. It's not a good place to be, unfortunately.

- F. Lee Bailey

source: "F. Lee Bailey looks back on his legal career". Interview with Greta Van Susteren, www.cnn.com. August 17, 2000.

topic: Men, Law, Criminals, Criminal Law

Time and experience have forcefully taught that the power to inspect dwelling places, either as a matter of systematic area-by-area search or, as here, to treat a specific problem, is of indispensable importance in the maintenance of community health; a power that would be greatly hobbled by the blanket requirement of the safeguards necessary for a search of evidence of criminal acts.

- Felix Frankfurter

topic: Dwelling, Community, Criminals, Community Health

Every case involving cybercrime that I've been involved in, I've never found a master criminal sitting somewhere in Russia or Hong Kong or Beijing. It always ends up that somebody at the company did something they weren't supposed to do. They read an email, went to a website they weren't supposed to.

- Frank Abagnale

topic: Russia, Email, Criminals, Beijing, Cybercrime

Police are inevitably corrupted. ... Police always observe that criminals prosper. It takes a pretty dull policeman to miss the fact that the position of authority is the most prosperous criminal position available.

- Frank Herbert

topic: Missing, Police, Criminals

Of course we're Criminals

- Frank Miller

topic: Criminals

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

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

topic: Wise, Humble, Criminals

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

- Frank Rich

topic: Criminals, Hollywood, Propaganda, Highs And Lows

Only when architect, bricklayer and tenant are a unity, or one and the same person, can we speak of architecture. Everything else is not architecture, but a criminal act which has taken on form.

- Friedensreich Hundertwasser

source: "Mould Manifesto against Rationalism in Architecture" by Friedensreich Hundertwasser, 1958.

topic: Taken, Unity, Criminals, Tenants, Bricklayers

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

- Friedrich Engels

topic: Philosophical, Law, Criminals

The failure to invest in civil justice is directly related to the increase in criminal disorder. The more people feel there is injustice the more it becomes part of their psyche.

- Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling

topic: People, Justice, Criminals

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

- Fyodor Dostoevsky

topic: Criminals, Citizens, Prison

I used to have a sort of soft spot for Huckabee. He seemed to have a genuinely saintly streak, which caused him to defend illegal immigrants and give pardons to criminals who were perhaps a little less rehabilitated than he had imagined.

- Gail Collins

topic: Giving, Criminals, Littles

The one thing prostitution is not is a 'victimless crime.' It attracts a wide species of preying criminals and generates a long line of victims, beginning with the most obvious and least understood - the prostitute herself.

- Gail Sheehy

topic: Long, Criminals, Lines, Long Lines

I was not sympathetic to the assumption that criminals had radically different motivations from everyone else.

- Gary Becker

source: Gary Stanley Becker, Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace (1996). “The Economic Way of Looking at Behavior: The Nobel Lecture”, p.7, Hoover Press

topic: Motivation, Criminals, Different

Probably fewer than 2% of handguns and well under 1% of all guns will ever be involved in a violent crime. Thus, the problem of criminal gun violence is concentrated within a very small subset of gun owners, indicating that gun control aimed at the general population faces a serious needle-in-the-haystack problem.

- Gary Kleck

topic: Gun, Criminals, Population, Handguns, Violent Crimes

I am not a criminal, for I destroyed a bad man. I thought I was right.

- Gavrilo Princip

topic: Men, Criminals, Bad Man

I've heard that while the show was on there were no reported crimes, or very few. When The Beatles were on Ed Sullivan, even the criminals had a rest for ten minutes.

- George Harrison

topic: Criminals, Crime, Minutes, Ed Sullivan

Let experience solve it. To listen to mere speculation in such a case were criminal.

- George Washington

topic: Learning, Criminals, Crime

When my face is flushed with blood, it becomes red and obscene. It betrays at the same time, through morbid reflexes, a bloody erection and a demanding thirst for indecency and criminal debauchery.

- Georges Bataille

topic: Blood, Criminals, Red, Debauchery

For 30 years I have tried to make it understood that there are no criminals,

- Georges Simenon

topic: Years, Criminals, Understood

When were we the most egalitarian country in the world? When we had the Glass/Steagal Act, which prevented the banks from becoming the criminal operations that they've become.

- Gerald Celente

topic: Country, Glasses, Criminals

A new fascism promises security from the terror of crime. All that is required is that we take away the criminals' rights - which, of course, are our own. Out of our desperation and fear we begin to feel a sense of security from the new totalitarian state.

- Gerry Spence

source: Gerry Spence (1999). “Give Me Liberty: Freeing Ourselves in the Twenty-First Century”, p.408, Macmillan

topic: Rights, Promise, Criminals, Totalitarian State

Our impulses are our birthright. To alter personality would be unjust, almost criminal, for the impulses that make a fool or worse of us in certain circumstances may be necessary for our happiness.

- Gertrude Atherton

topic: Personality, Criminals, Would Be

But the individual was not a tool for something. He was the maker of tools. He was the one who must build. Even for the best purpose it is criminal to turn an individual into simply a means for some ultimate end. A society in which the dignity of the individual is destroyed cannot hope to be a decent society.

- Golda Meir

topic: Mean, Society, Criminals

I did not volunteer for the Waffen SS, but was, as were thousands of my year group, conscripted. I did not then know as a 17-year-old that it was a criminal unit. I thought it was an elite unit.

- Gunter Grass

topic: Years, Volunteer, Criminals

The capture of Saddam Hussein has proven to the bad ones, to the guilty ones, to the sinful ones that they cannot run forever. Sooner or later, the other criminals will also be found from their hideouts.

- Hamid Karzai

source: "Afganistan's Hamid Karzai". Interview with Tom Brokaw, www.nbcnews.com. December 15, 2003.

topic: Running, Forever, Criminals

Eighty percent of our criminals come from unsympathetic homes.

- Hans Christian Andersen

topic: Home, Evil, Criminals, Unsympathetic

There is a movement to get an international criminal court in the world, voted for by hundreds of states-but with the noticeable absence of the United States of America.

- Harold Pinter

topic: America, Criminals, United States

I think that NATO is itself a war criminal.

- Harold Pinter

topic: War, Thinking, Criminals, Nato

I believe an international criminal court is very much to be desired.

- Harold Pinter

topic: Believe, Criminals, I Believe

Every criminal leaves psychic fingerprints. And he can't wear gloves to hide them.

- Helen McCloy

topic: Psychics, Criminals, Gloves, Fingerprints

Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.

- Henry Thomas Buckle

topic: Criminals, Crime, Commit, Organized Crime, Crime And Criminals

The maker of kitsch does not create inferior art, he is not an incompetent or a bungler, he cannot be evaluated by aesthetic standards; rather, he is ethically depraved, a criminal willing radical evil. And since it is radical evil that is manifest here, evil per se, forming the absolute negative pole of every value-system, kitsch will always be evil, not just kitsch in art, but kitsch in every value-system that is not an imitation system.

- Hermann Broch

topic: Art, Evil, Criminals, Depraved

None of my clients are criminals, but to a much lighter degree that's what goes on. I hear the story, and I hear it with the level of detail that breeds empathy.

- Hilary Liftin

source: "'Getting to Take on That Life Temporarily'". Interview with Kathryn Borel, Jr., logger.believermag.com. July 21, 2015.

topic: Empathy, Criminals, Degrees

The causes that govern the heart appear to be wholly alien to the results achieved. Are the forces that moved a desperate criminal the same that fill a martyr with pride, as both mount the scaffold?

- Honore de Balzac

topic: Heart, Pride, Criminals

Danger arouses interest. Where death is involved, the vilest criminal invariably stirs a little compassion.

- Honore de Balzac

topic: Compassion, Criminals, Littles

Nothing is unimportant to a man plunged in despair. He is as credulous as a criminal sentenced to death who listens to a lunatic raving to him about how he can escape through the keyhole.

- Honore de Balzac

topic: Men, Despair, Criminals, Keyholes

It's actually quite criminal how 'The Wire' was systematically ignored.

- Idris Elba

topic: Wire, Criminals, Ignored

Experts say that children are not born criminals, nor pampered parasites. They are made that way by the environment in which they live.

- J. Edgar Hoover

topic: Children, Criminals, Experts, Pampered

Justification is the truly dramatic transition from the status of a condemned criminal awaiting a terrible sentence to that of an heir awaiting a fabulous inheritance.

- J. I. Packer

topic: Criminals, Transition, Inheritance

On November 7, 2006, Cafferty called Donald Rumsfeld "an obnoxious jerk and war criminal".

- Jack Cafferty

source: "Cafferty Shows His Love For Rumsfeld". Crooks & Liars, November 7, 2006.

topic: War, Criminals, November

The public has no power. The government knows I'm not a criminal. The parole board knows I'm not a criminal. The judge knows I'm not a criminal.

- Jack Kevorkian

topic: Government, Judging, Criminals, Parole

The responsibility of a minister is to step aside when there is a criminal investigation of the department. That protects the propriety of Parliament and of responsible government.

- Jack Layton

topic: Responsibility, Government, Criminals, Propriety, Criminal Investigation

I categorically declare first my absolute innocence, second my lack of criminal intent, and third my effusive apologies.

- Jack Vance

source: Jack Vance (1950). “The Dying Earth”, p.199, Spatterlight Press

topic: Apology, Criminals, Firsts

I am conservative by temperament. I disapprove of criminal activity. I am very solidly and markedly on the side of authority. The truth is I would rather err on the side of too much authority than too little.

- James Ellroy

topic: Criminals, Littles, Too Much

I don't know anybody in the underworld. I make this stuff up. I don't know any criminals.

- James Ellroy

topic: Criminals, Stuff, Underworld

For when a nation becomes civilized, if it does not drop human sacrifices altogether, it at least selects as victims only such wretches as would be put to death at any rate. Thus the killing of a god may sometimes come to be confounded with the execution of a criminal.

- James G. Frazer

source: "The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion". Book by James G. Frazer, 1890.

topic: Sacrifice, Criminals, Doe

What most needs explanation is not why some people are criminals, but why most people are not.

- James Q. Wilson

topic: People, Criminals, Needs

What these memos do is they make legal acts that were criminal prior to these memos.

- Jane Mayer

topic: Criminals, Memos

The detective and his criminal wear versions of the same mask.

- Jane Roberts

topic: Evil, Criminals, Detectives

It doesn't matter to criminals if the event is called a gun show or a flea market -- if they can buy guns.

- Janet Reno

topic: Gun, Criminals, Events, Flea Markets

Actually criminal sanctions that are given could be up to five years for violating the rules and regulations under the campaign finance reform. This is like the Alien and Sedition Act of years and years ago, decades ago.

- Jay Sekulow

topic: Years, Criminals, Reform, Campaign Finance Reform, Campaign Finance

Where princes are concerned, a man who is able to do good is as dangerous and almost as criminal as a man who intends to do evil.

- Jean Francois Paul de Gondi

topic: Men, Evil, Criminals

Repudiating the virtues of your world, criminals hopelessly agree to organize a forbidden universe. They agree to live in it. The air there is nauseating. They can breathe it.

- Jean Genet

topic: Air, Evil, Criminals

Too much virtue can be criminal.

- Jean Racine

topic: Criminals, Too Much, Virtue

It is not our criminal actions that require courage to confess, but those which are ridiculous and foolish.

- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

topic: Courage, Criminals, Ridiculous

In a well governed state, there are few punishments, not because there are many pardons, but because criminals are rare; it is when a state is in decay that the multitude of crimes is a gaurantee of impunity.

- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

topic: Punishment, Criminals, Decay, Impunity

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

topic: People, Trying, Criminals

I didn't really know what to expect from detention but when I waked into the room, the first thought I had was, I don't belong in here with these future criminals.

- Jeff Kinney

topic: Criminals, Rooms, Firsts, Detention

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

- Jeff Miller

topic: Criminals, Attention, Firearms

A lot of street crime is horrible, but in terms of the dislocation, the undermining of the family - the corporate criminals, many of whom reside in Congress and the White House - are getting away literally with murder.

- Jerry Brown

topic: White, House, Criminals, White House, Dislocation

Look at the whole criminal correction game, which is a big piece of our economy. It's just an invention. Crime is being invented to put people to work.

- Jerry Brown

topic: Games, People, Criminals

The sovereignty of America has just been eroded in plain daylight by Clinton and the Congress, who take an oath to the Constitution. Those criminals continue to destroy this country and the world itself.

- Jerry Brown

topic: Country, America, Criminals

Industrial hemp is a very useful plant. I challenged the attorney general to get rid of the criminal stigma associated with hemp so we can look at it in terms of how it might be useful.

- Jesse Ventura

topic: Hemp, Criminals, Looks

The need to be cared for is the base of everything. In the penitentiaries, you won't hear gangbangers and criminals say, 'No, I don't want to be cared for by nobody.' When you care about them, they'll open up to you.

- Jim Brown

topic: Criminals, Needs, Care

The Crime Victims Fund is distributed to service providers who assist millions of crime victims annually throughout our communities in a host of ways. It is paid for by fines levied on criminals, not taxpayers.

- Jim Costa

topic: Community, Criminals, Way, Service Providers, Crime Victims

Yet only the atrocities of the conquered are referred to as criminal acts; those of the conqueror are justified as necessary, heroic, and even worse, as the fulfillment of God's will.

- Jim Fergus

source: Jim Fergus (2005). “The Wild Girl: The Notebooks of Ned Giles, 1932”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

topic: Atrocities, Criminals, Heroic

There are over 500,000 registered sex offenders across the country, and statistics have shown that the recidivism rate for those criminals is high.

- Jim Sensenbrenner

topic: Country, Sex, Criminals, Over 50, Recidivism

We should not allow wealthy people, including corporate criminals, to hide their assets and avoid paying their bills.

- Jim Talent

topic: People, Criminals, Bills

If we're going to spend a lot of money to deal with the problem of 200 million guns in the country owned by 65 million gun owners, we ought to have a system which will work and catch criminals.

- John Dingell

topic: Country, Gun, Criminals, Gun Owners

More than 100 people have been sent to death row who were later exonerated because they weren't guilty or fairly tried. Most criminal defendants do not get adequate representation because there are not enough public defenders to represent them. There is a lot that is wrong.

- John Grisham

topic: People, Criminals, Adequate, Defenders, Death Row

All the things that you would have thought would have made me a professional A1 criminal... wrong. I decided that was too lazy and easy, and because of the way British society is, quite frankly you were denied an education, so I got one of my own.

- John Lydon

topic: Lazy, Criminals, Way

I've begun to wonder if we wouldn't also regard spelunkers as desperate criminals if AT&T owned all the caves.

- John Perry Barlow

topic: Criminals, Caves, Wonder

The best way to get rid of criminals is to stop raising them.

- John R. Rice

topic: Criminals, Way

If I was a criminal, stationery stores and bakeries would be the two kinds of places I would concentrate on.

- John Turturro

topic: Two, Criminals, Would Be, Stationery, Bakeries

I've always believed in the goodness of people. I teach in prison. They all said, don't do it. Carry a gun, take Mace. Are you kidding? I guess, they're around so many criminal elements that they fear for.

- John Waters

topic: Gun, People, Criminals

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

- John Wilkes Booth

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

topic: Soul, Criminals

This is not to condone torture, which is still prohibited by the Torture Convention and federal criminal law.

- John Yoo

topic: Law, Criminals, Conventions, Criminal Law

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

- Johnnie Cochran

topic: New York, Trying, Criminals, Combs

I think record companies are criminals.

- Jon Bon Jovi

topic: Thinking, Criminals, Records

No wonder we have a lot of violence in Rio: the corrupt and violent policemen meet the violent criminals in the streets. What else is going to happen?

- Jose Padilha

topic: Criminals, Violence, Wonder, Violent Criminals

We make violent cops, we make violent criminals, and no wonder we have shootouts in slums all of the time.

- Jose Padilha

source: "Jose Padilha Says ‘Elite Squad’ Sequel Is His Scorsese-Like Take On Cops & Politics In Brazil". Interview with Todd Gilchrist, www.indiewire.com. September 28, 2011.

topic: Criminals, Wonder, Cop, Violent Criminals, Slums

It is not the criminals who arouse the hatred of others, but the men who are honest.

- Jose Rizal

topic: Men, Hatred, Criminals, Noli Me Tangere

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

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

topic: Army, Criminals, Answers, Cramps

I never knew a critic who made it his business to lash the faults of other writers that was not guilty of greater himself--as the hangman is generally a worse malefactor than the criminal that suffers by his hand.

- Joseph Addison

topic: Hands, Suffering, Criminals, Not Guilty, Hangman

True modesty avoids everything that is criminal; false modesty everything that is unfashionable.

- Joseph Addison

topic: Criminals, Modesty, False Modesty

We shall go down in history as the greatest statesmen of all time,or as the greatest criminals

- Joseph Goebbels

topic: Criminals, All Time

The custom of saluting [i.e., embracing] ladies by their relatives and friends was introduced, it is said, by the early Romans, not out of respect originally, but to find by their breath whether they had been drinking wine, this being criminal for women to do, as it sometimes led to adultery.

- Joseph Haydn

topic: Drinking, Wine, Criminals, Relatives And Friends

The prospect of a government that treats all its citizens as criminal suspects is more terrifying than any terrorist. And even more frightening is a citizenry that can accept the surrender of its freedoms as the price of "freedom".

- Joseph Sobran

topic: Government, Liberty, Criminals, Price Of Freedom

The NRA is right...handgun controls do little to stop criminals from obtaining handguns.

- Josh Sugarmann

topic: Gun, Criminals, Littles, Nra, Handguns

... the growing child must not be treated by those rigid rules of criminal procedure which confessedly fail to prevent offenses on the part of adults or cure adult offenders.

- Julia Lathrop

topic: Children, Adults, Criminals, Growing Children

We have to be careful about applying criminal labels to people until we're very sure.

- Julian Assange

topic: People, Criminals, Labels

Germans must fight Jews, that organized body of world criminals against whom Christ, the greatest anti-Semite of all time, had fought.

- Julius Streicher

source: "Hitler's Elite: Shocking Profiles of the Reich's Most Notorious Henchmen" by Louis Leo Snyder, Berkley Books, 1990.

topic: Fighting, Criminals, World

Historically, terrorism falls in a category different from crimes that concern a criminal court judge.

- Jurgen Habermas

topic: Fall, Judging, Criminals, Court Judges, Anti Terrorism

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

topic: Jobs, Guy, Criminals, Bad Guys

I strongly believe that for serious and violent criminals, we must absolutely hold them accountable for their crimes and send them to prison.

- Kamala Harris

source: "San Francisco D.A. Kamala Harris Talks To Kimberly Marteau About Her New Book Smart On Crime". Interview with Kimberly Marteau Emerson, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

topic: Believe, Criminals, Serious, Violent Criminals

Generally speaking, the public appetite for criminal justice policy is just tough talk.

- Kamala Harris

topic: Justice, Criminals, Tough

It's funny that they've called homosexuality a crime... At this rate, everyone will be a criminal.

- Kangana Ranaut

topic: Law, Criminals, Crime

We need criminals to identify ourselves with, to secretly envy and to stoutly punish. They do for us the forbidden, illegal things we wish to do.

- Karl A. Menninger

topic: Envy, Wish, Criminals, Illegal Things

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

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

topic: Self, People, Criminals, Laissez Faire

We need to deport these criminals and negotiate agreements requiring that they do their time in their own countries.

- Kathleen Brown

topic: Country, Agreement, Criminals

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

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

topic: Reality, Law, Criminals, Reinvention, Essayists

Humanity is the crime; God is the criminal.

- Kedar Joshi

topic: Humanity, Criminals, Crime

I'd been on 'SVU' before and I'd been on 'Criminal Intent,' but I wasn't a follower. Like, my mom watches every episode, even before I was on it.

- Kelli Giddish

source: "‘Law And Order: SVU’: Kelli Giddish Talks Playing Mariska Hargitay’s ‘Lover,’ James Van Der Beek Episode And More". Interview With Jaimie Etkin, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 2, 2012.

topic: Mom, Criminals, Watches

As a former attorney general. I have the greatest respect for the criminal justice system. But it is not good at intelligence gathering.

- Kelly Ayotte

topic: Justice, Criminals, Gathering, Intelligence Gathering, Criminal Justice

The measure would set criminal penalties, the same as those that would apply if harm or death happened to the pregnant woman, for those who harm a fetus.

- Ken Calvert

topic: Pregnancy, Criminals, Fetus, Pregnant Women

It is only the inadequacy of the criminal code that saves the hackers from very serious prosecution.

- Ken Thompson

topic: Criminals, Serious, Hackers, Prosecution

I penetrate the hearts of good kids and criminals

- Kendrick Lamar