Criminal Quotes

• 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
  • Marry
  • Criminal
  • Occur

• 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
  • Artist
  • Talent
  • Guts

• To be a good actor you have to be something like a criminal, to be willing to break the rules to strive for something new.

  

  Nicolas Cage
  • Actor
  • Rules
  • Break

• 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
  • America
  • Ideas
  • Healing

• The criminal justice system - although this applies less to the U.S., where rehabilitation is not seen as a valuable contribution to criminal justice - in Europe where rehab is supposed to be integral, we have no way of rehabilitating skilled hackers. On the contrary what we do is we demonize them and continue to do so after they come out of jail because we restrict their access to computers by law. Crazy world, crazy people.

  

  Misha Glenny
  • Justice
  • Computer
  • Valuable

• One should never spurn a penitent criminal: in his despair he may become twice as much a criminal as before.

  

  Mikhail Lermontov
  • Despair
  • Criminal
  • Twice

• It is fortunate for this community that I am not a criminal.

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Community
  • Fortunate
  • Criminal

• When I started coming to the U.S., they were offering me only the typical stereotypical roles: the druggard, the criminal, the gang member, or in the best-case scenario, the gardener or the cook. I was fed up with all these roles that were always the same. And I promised I would try to change the image of Latinos in Hollywood.

  

  Eugenio Derbez
  • Change
  • Always
  • Coming

• A mob is the method by which good citizens turn over the law and the government to the criminal or irresponsible classes.

  

  Ray Stannard Baker
  • Government
  • Classes
  • Irresponsible

• A woman questions the man who loves exactly as a judge questions a criminal. This being so, a flash of the eye, a mere word, an inflection of the voice or a moment's hesitation suffice to expose the fact, betrayal or crime he is attempting to conceal.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Question
  • Judge
  • Criminal

• A great cause of evil in the world is that men seldom think themselves criminal if they offer the same injustice to others that has been successfully practiced on themselves.

  

  Norm MacDonald
  • Evil
  • Cause
  • Criminal

• 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
  • Law
  • Recognize
  • Partisan

• We continue to work on policy to end discrimination against people with criminal records.

  

  Susan Burton
  • Records
  • Policy
  • Discrimination

• An English criminal, you know is always better concealed in London than anywhere else.

  

  Jules Verne
  • English
  • London
  • Criminal

• I signed their paper. It was a contract obligating me to spend six weeks doing farmwork in the north of Germany. If I didn’t show up at the train station tomorrow, the paper said, I would be treated as a wanted criminal and hunted down without mercy.

  

  Edith Hahn Beer
  • Mercy
  • Train
  • Germany

• 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
  • Justice
  • Criminal
  • Reference

• Man, or at least criminal man, has lost all enterprise and originality. As to my own little practice, it seems to be degenerating into an agency for recovering lost lead pencils and giving advice to young ladies from boarding-schools.

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Man
  • Enterprise
  • Criminal

• Everyone is a criminal! We are beset on all sides by antirevolutionary forces. Naturally, then, humans fall into three categories: the criminal, the not-yet-criminal, and the not-yet-caught.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Humans
  • Categories
  • Not-yet-criminal

• Governor Tinubu’s criminal case is of international dimension.

  

  Nuhu Ribadu
  • International
  • Governor
  • Dimension

• Violence toward women isn't cultural; it's criminal.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Women
  • Violence
  • Criminal

• I was raised - professionally - in the Public Integrity Section. I started in 1976, stayed there for 12 years. It was formed after Watergate by then-head of the Criminal Division Dick Thornburgh, who ultimately became Attorney General.

  

  Eric Holder
  • Integrity
  • Criminal
  • Attorney

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