Criminals Quotes - Page 3

The only important elements in any society are the artistic and the criminal, because they alone, by questioning the society’s values, can force it to change.

I've always hated criminals and crime. Life is hard enough without someone walking into your life on purpose and making it worse.

Freedom without opportunity is a devil's gift, and the refusal to provide such opportunities is criminal

Congress: America's only true criminal class.

MISDEMEANOR, n. An infraction of the law having less dignity than a felony and constituting no claim to admittance into the best criminal society.

Truth to tell, we are all criminals if we remain silent.

There is no lasting hope in violence, only temporary relief from hopelessness.

I've been labelled many times - a criminal, an anarchist, a rebel, sometimes human garbage, but never a philosopher, which is a pity because that's what I am. I chose a life apart from the common flow, not only because the common flow makes me sick but because I question the logic of the flow, and not only that - I don't know if the flow exists! Why should I chain myself to the wheel when the wheel itself might be a construct, an invention, a common dream to enslave us?

The criminal justice system, like any system designed by human beings, clearly has its flaws.

Criminality is now legal. I guess criminal racketeering these days would be like burning little children at the stake or something. That's about what it takes to get anyone to care.

What kind of man would put a known criminal in charge of a major branch of government? Apart from, say, the average voter.

A society gets the criminals it deserves.

A right to jury trial is granted to criminal defendants in order to prevent oppression by the Government.

It can be argued that rapists deserve to be raped, that mutilators deserve to be mutilated. Most societies, however, refrain from responding in this way because the punishment is not only degrading to those on whom it is imposed, but it is also degrading to the society that engages in the same behavior as the criminals.

Violence against women isn't cultural, it's criminal. Equality cannot come eventually, it's something we must fight for now.

New Orleans food is as delicious as the less criminal forms of sin.

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.

Most criminals are not born; they are made.... What the State really punishes in a criminal is often its own neglect, its own failure to do its duty to the citizen.

The media insist that crime is the major concern of the American public today. In this connection they generally push the point that a disarmed society would be a crime-free society. They will not accept the truth that if you take all the guns off the street you still will have a crime problem, whereas if you take the criminals off the street you cannot have a gun problem.

I cannot comment on any player who has ongoing criminal charges and legal situations.

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.

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

The liberty of the press is indeed essential to the nature of a free state: but this consists in laying no previous restraints upon publications, and not in freedom from censure for criminal matter when published. Every freeman has an undoubted right to lay what sentiments he pleases before the public: to forbid this, is to destroy the freedom of the press: but if he publishes what is improper, mischievous, or illegal, he must take the consequence of his own temerity.

The chief problem in any community cursed with crime is not the punishment of the criminals, but the preventing of the young from being trained to crime.

The subject of criminal rehabilitation was debated recently in City Hall. It's an appropriate place for this kind of discussion because the city has always employed so many ex-cons and future cons.