Criminals Quotes - Page 12

I must be informed, that one of my great duties was, to obey the priests in all things; and this I soon learnt, to my utter astonishment and horror, was to live in the practice of criminal intercourse with them.

The press is called the Fourth Estate. It is definitely a power, but, to misuse that power is criminal.

Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear.

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

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

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

Gun control does not decrease gun ownership by criminals but instead reduces their incentives to refrain from violence because it decreases the supply of armed law-abiding citizens who might resist them.

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

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.

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

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

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

In Santiago, the capital of the kingdom of Chile, at the moment of the great earthquake of 1647 in which many thousands lost their lives, a young Spaniard called Jeronimo Rugera was standing beside one of the pillars in the prison to which he had been committed on a criminal charge, and he was about to hang himself.

[Mark] Twain called Congress "the only distinctly native criminal class in America. We've lately sent a United States Senator to the penitentiary." That was a fact.

The negative penalties of the Old Testament case laws were not harsh but just, not a threat to society but rather the necessary judicial foundation of civic freedom… the Old Testament was harsh on criminals because it was soft on victims.

A new report shows that, in Virginia, gun violence has fallen as the sale of firearms has soared to a new record. In other news, a recent study shows that most criminals don't like getting shot at.

Has the international criminal court avoided opening an investigation into alleged war crimes in Gaza due to political pressure. The answer is an unequivocal “no”. As prosecutor of the ICC, I reject any suggestion of this in the strongest terms.

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

There is a legitimate argument over whether the death penalty effectively deters violent crime, although my personal observation is that not one of the criminals who have been executed over the years has ever killed again.

Superman is, after all, an alien life form. He is simply the acceptable face of invading realities.

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.

A law imposing criminal penalties on protected speech is a stark example of speech suppression.

Criminals were coming to Chechnya from all over the world - they did not have a place in their own countries. But they could live perfectly well in Chechnya.

Nothing is so common as the wish to be remarkable.(attributed to)

...Nixon's subversion [of the consititution] consisted of: One presidental lie; one invocation of presidental privilege, and zero criminal offences.