Criminal Quotes
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I am told that the proximity of punishment arouses real repentance in the criminal and sometimes awakens a feeling of genuine remorse in the most hardened heart; I am told this is due to fear.
Fyodor Dostoevsky -
Every major criminal case is always built from the bottom up. You get the underlings, you get them to plead and cooperate, and that leads to the higher-ups.
Michael Isikoff
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Officially, he was no longer a victim, he was a criminal.
Edward Humes -
Obviously, certain sins often may escape detection. Homosexuals who practice behind closed doors are out-of-bounds for the courts, of course, unless others witness their criminal behavior. Such behavior may not be dealt with by courts in history, but will be dealt with by God, either in history (e.g., AIDS) or eternity. The law that requires the death penalty for homosexual acts effectually drives the perversion of homosexuality underground, back to the closet, to the dark realm of shameful activity.
Gary DeMar -
The most dangerous criminal may be the man gifted with reason, but with no morals.
Martin Luther King, Jr. -
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 -
In order to ensure our criminal justice system is fair and equitable, my office is conducting an immediate assessment of every prosecution within the past 10 years where these officers were involved. This is a shameful incident that the public deserves to have addressed in a meaningful and expeditious manner.
George Gascon -
The legalized liquor business is the tragedy of our civilization. Alcohol is the greatest and most blighting curse of our modern civilization. The liquor seller is simply and only a privileged malefactor - a criminal.
Abraham Lincoln
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It's not the function of Congress to do criminal investigations.
Saxby Chambliss -
Gator McKlusky from White Lightning was a criminal and a felon, but he had a good heart - he's probably a cousin to Bo. Bo was not a felon and definitely never wanted to hurt anybody - the final scene confirms that. He confesses to Buford T. Justice that he is right behind him. Gator McKlusky would not have done that.
Burt Reynolds -
One should never spurn a penitent criminal: in his despair he may become twice as much a criminal as before.
Mikhail Lermontov -
Our criminal justice system has swallowed up too many people I love.
Michael K. Williams -
The nature of the criminal justice system has changed. It is no longer primarily concerned with the prevention and punishment of crime, but rather with the management and control of the dispossessed.
Michelle Alexander -
One is called a criminal for being different, and malicious for observing other people with too much clarity and penetration. But what if one began with oneself?
Andre Suares
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Are you aware that was the longest and largest criminal case in the history of Los Angeles County?
Thomas Mesereau -
Today, criminal justice functions and justifies itself only by this perpetual reference to something other than itself, by this unceasing reinscription in non-juridical systems.
Michel Foucault -
One of the best things in being a criminal is having no schedule.
Edward Bunker -
In the USA, it's harder for a black man with no criminal record to find a job than a white man with a criminal record, which is to say that race is actually a bigger factor than ex-felon status. But if you're both, it's almost impossible to find a job.
Benjamin Jealous -
Every criminal would be an artist if he had the talent, and every artist would become a criminal if he had the guts.
Adam Langer -
I only did my duty to my country when I tried to oppose the criminal folly of Hitler.
Wilhelm Canaris
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A judge who cannot punish, in the end associates themselves with the criminal.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
If someone doesn’t want to be a criminal anymore, I can give them tools that can better their life. You have no idea how many people want to know what Scientology is.
Tom Cruise -
Will corporal punishment help restrain criminal behavior? Some well-intentioned experts say no. But one group that disagrees with these experts is the criminals themselves.
Charles Taylor -
We need each other's ideas. Now, I'm not talking about racist ideas or misogynistic ideas or cruel or criminal ideas. I'm talking about most of us who have very varied experiences, needs and ideas. It's really about believing that it's an important part of healing America.
Elizabeth Lesser