Criminals Quotes - Page 15

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.

These monstrous criminals have demonstrated a vile and brutal affront against humanity.

I wrote a piece in the New York Times back in the Nineties saying that racial discrimination ought to be a criminal offense, not just a civil one. I'm all for the criminalization of discrimination.

Eliminating the death penalty...will not hinder the prosecutorial capacity to seek, or the court's ability to impose, 'life without parole' sentences for serious, heinous crimes and criminals.

It's not the function of Congress to do criminal investigations.

The administration says, then, there are no downsides or upsides to treating terrorists like civilian criminal defendants, but a lot of us would beg to differ.

I am no longer a criminal. I gave up that practice years ago.

The actual and potential harm of use of the drug is not great enough to justify intrusion by the criminal law into private behavior, a step which our society takes only 'with the greatest reluctance’.

The frogs hopping indoors agree that we are on a prison planet. They themselves are frog criminals that were convicted of doing frog crimes.

I'm not working-class: I come from the criminal classes.

Although I was simply what today would be called a "mule" - the bottom of the food chain in the drug biz - the federal system treated me from beginning to end like a major criminal, and I still don't know why, other than that in those days, 6.5 ounces of heroin was a big load. Ludicrous by today's standards, when coke, heroin, and weed are shipped across the border by the ton.

It ought to be a criminal offence for women to dye their hair. Especially red. What the devil do women do that sort of thing for?

We're making it more difficult to obtain the necessary ingredients to produce meth and tightening criminal penalties for those who deal in this dangerous drug.

Yes, for my undergrad I majored in Criminal Justice and minored in Political Science and English.

Each month there are numerous incidents where visitors are abducted by criminal groups - just long enough to withdraw the maximum amount of money from an ATM account.

People who look the other way when they see these war criminals are smaller criminals themselves.

There can be no criminal intent in resisting injustice.

My anti-authoritarian instincts let me directly to criminal defense work.

Self-reinvention is an essential trope of the American project, closely linked to another such trope: going on the lam. Both are regularly featured in movies and novels and suchlike. Criminals and persons loitering with and without intent hold a crucial place in the culture. For obvious reasons, the culture cannot endorse this behavior, even as it is in thrall to it.

We've got fifty people at Gitmo that are too dangerous to be let go that will never go through a normal criminal trial. Let's create a new legal system, so they'll have their day in court.

Family violence is a criminal act; perpetrators, while often former victims themselves, need to accept culpability.

I spent time in, like, criminal courts, and covering murder trials for papers.

But certainly I didn't know he was doing anything that was criminal.

I don't think I'm a criminal, number one.

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