Criminals Quotations | Page 2

You have no ability, if you're a financial institution and you're threatened with criminal prosecution, you have no ability to negotiate.

Christ's crucifix shall be made an excuse for executing criminals.

From Jesse James to Charles Manson, the media, since their inception, have turned criminals into folk heroes.

If, indeed, a firearm were more dangerous to its possessors than to potential aggressors, would it not make sense for the government to arm all criminals, and let them accidentally shoot themselves? Is this absurd? Yes, and yet the government, of course, is arming criminals.

I used to have a sort of soft spot for Huckabee. He seemed to have a genuinely saintly streak, which caused him to defend illegal immigrants and give pardons to criminals who were perhaps a little less rehabilitated than he had imagined.

You have to steal a lot. You have to have a criminal mentality to be a film director.

It might be pardonable to refuse to defend some men, but to defend them negligently is nothing short of criminal.

Let the punishments of criminals be useful. A hanged man is good for nothing; a man condemned to public works still serves the country, and is a living lesson.

What really raises one's indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering

Working with local police to target these individuals and get them off the streets means that Allentown and Bethlehem are safer communities today. These criminals should not be allowed to continue preying on innocent residents. ICE can offer great assistance to local police by removing these deportable aliens from the community.

Working together, we will show the criminals that there will be no safe haven for their crimes.

With no other security forces on hand, U.S. military was left to confront, almost alone, an Iraqi insurgency and a crime rate that grew worse throughout the year, waged in part by soldiers of the disbanded army and in part by criminals who were released from prison.

Many conspiracies are not criminal, even conspiracies that involve slamming somebody.

You have to understand where you are on the continuum. I feel I have to be the criminal mastermind on the mound if I want to win.

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.

Sinners cannot find God for the same reason that criminals cannot find a policeman: They aren't looking!

Who does Not Know the Truth, is simply a Fool... Yet who Knows the Truth and Calls it a Lie, is a Criminal.

We have some criminals out there. That's why we have lights and security people at Wal-Mart.

Only criminals and adulterers should have to hide who they are.

The Daily Mail can't say 'asylum-seeker' without saying 'foreign criminal' in the same sentence. I'm sure it's practically editorial policy.

My dean gave me permission to model during my work semester, even though I was in the Criminal Justice Department. I don't know whether I'd ever have become a model if he hadn't let me do that.

So I was still guilty. And if I was not guilty because one cannot be guilty of betraying a criminal, then I was guilty of having loved a criminal.

The criminal penalties [for suicide] are the production of a later and darker age.

It is curious to be treated by the old-fashioned people as a criminal because my thoughts and ways are beyond them.

An artist must approach his work in the spirit of the criminal about to commit a crime.

It is a characteristic of the weak and criminal to attribute to others the misfortunes that are the result of their own wickedness.

'It is my duty to warn you that it will be used against you,' cried the Inspector, with the magnificent fair play of the British criminal law.

Criminals should be punished, not fed pastries.

The criminal ineptitude makes you furious.

There are no Muslim terrorists. There are terrorists. There are criminals who claim to be Muslims. We all know that the vast majority of our Muslim friends and neighbors are as horrified and disgusted at what has happened as we are.

There are no criminals in the database. It's you guys. It's a joke.

There are more police here than people. They should go catch the criminals and set the people free.

There are some pretty rotten things going on in our prisons. We've seen prisoners sleeping in vans, a big increase in smuggling contraband into prisons, we've heard the suggestion that criminals should be prison guards, seen budgets blown and prisoners accessing violent movies.

The fact of the matter is criminals have been operating in seaports a long, long time. The bad guys know how open the system is. The good guys don't seem to have a real command on it here because we haven't paid as much attention to this problem as we need to.

The fact is that cyber criminals are opportunistic and will seek any means to take control of users' systems.

There are a lot of criminals in this city, ... We were the first on the water, we were the first to rescue people.

We refuse to lie here in dishonor! We are not criminals, but Irishmen! This is the crime of which we stand accused.

Never will they label our liberation struggle as criminal

I too was frightened the first time I felt I hated my father. I felt like a criminal. But could I help it what was inside of me? I had to feel what I felt even if it killed me.

It has become increasingly clear that Hungarian authorities are encouraging the whitewashing of tragic and criminal episodes in Hungary's past, namely the wartime Hungarian governments' involvement in the deportation and murder of hundreds of thousands of its Jewish citizens. I found it outrageous that the Speaker of the Hungarian National Assembly could participate in a ceremony honoring a Hungarian fascist ideologue

Every single human being is a unique human being. And, therefore, it's so criminal to do something to that human being, because he or she represents humanity.

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

We are taking the fight into the safe havens of the enemy in the heartland of the country, where we continue to face former regime loyalists, criminals and foreign terrorists,

Laws directed against opinions affect the generous-minded rather than the wicked, and are adapted less for coercing criminals than for irritating the upright.

A lady cannot be blamed if a master criminal takes a fancy to her.

How pitiable is it to reflect, that although you were so fully convinced of the benevolence of the Father of Mankind, and of his equal and impartial distribution of these rights and privileges, which he hath conferred upon them, that you should at the same time counteract his mercies, in detaining by fraud and violence so numerous a part of my brethren, under groaning captivity and cruel oppression, that you should at the same time be found guilty of that most criminal act, which you professedly detested in others, with respect to yourselves

You cannot "love" a dog out of her bad behavior, just as you can't "love" a criminal into stopping his crimes.

I tell my students, if you ever become comfortable with your role as criminal defense lawyer, it's time to quit. It should be a constant source of discomfort, because you're dealing with incredible moral ambiguity, and you've been cast into a role which is not enviable.

A criminal trial is never about seeking justice for the victim. If it were, there could be only one verdict: guilty.

Scientists search for truth. Philosophers search for morality. A criminal trial searches for only one result: proof beyond a reasonable doubt.

All children are essentially criminal.

Teaching COBOL ought to be regarded as a criminal act.

From the point of view of the economy, the sale of weapons is indistinguishable from the sale of food. When a building collapses or a plane crashes, it?s rather inconvenient from the point of view of those inside, but it?s altogether convenient for the growth of the gross national product, which sometimes ought to be called the "gross criminal product."

What I'd like to be able to do is find out who the criminals are and ship them out.

The plan is to deny criminals the use of the road.

make it easier for criminals to buy guns at gun shows.

Many sentences are excessively long because mandatory sentencing policies do not allow sentencing judges the discretion to distinguish between hardened criminals and those amenable to rehabilitation and preparation for successful re-entry.

Many users will be used to receiving dodgy sounding business propositions in their inbox, promising them a fortune. These schemes, however, only make money for the criminals behind them.

Some criminals have learned that impersonating the deceased is a successful way to commit identity theft.

Simon Wiesenthal's passing saddens us all. He was a champion in the fight to bring to justice the 20th Century's worst criminals who had escaped justice.

Sick criminals are deliberately using the mining disaster in an attempt to steal from others, without a thought for the families of the victims, who have surely been through enough anguish. Everyone should be wary of emails such as these, as it is a common trick used by fraudsters to steal money and bank account information.

Six of the criminals were eliminated, ... From the reports on the ground, all of the hostages were released.

One out of 100 citizens of the U.S. is going to prison, and it's not that the system is making criminals, it's that it's making criminals better criminals. We're breeding them like rats and it has to change.

Occupiers of 'bad' buildings are exposed to far worse dangers on the streets than in the buildings, whether it be from the elements or from criminals who may prey on them and their possessions.

No one should be able to peddle your private information for a profit without your express permission. Giving out this information to anyone who can pay the fee is a license to arm stalkers, criminals and identity thieves.

More than 50 bodies have been brought out from the Tigris, and we have the full names of those who were killed and those criminals who committed these crimes.

Now we are not dealing with kids having fun. We are dealing with criminals -- the Russian mafia. And online banking risks are there if your bank offers it, even if you don't use it.

Police departments should have a zero-tolerance policy toward domestic violence. Officers and other violators should be treated as criminals just as they would in any other situation.

If we don't have witnesses, we can't keep criminals off the streets.

I don't know what normal criminals do for community service, but it certainly can't be this exciting and have this much attention.

Because so many of these cases come up, the person usually gets off with a misdemeanor. This is especially true if the checks are under certain dollar amounts. Criminals sometimes know more about how the judicial system works than their victims.

Because of the success we had in driving some of this ... out of the traditional banking sector, criminals are looking for alternative ways. They are intelligent people, and they are going to be innovative. But it requires us to be innovative as well, because we now have to adjust our actions on all levels, law enforcement, regulation and education in the private sector, to stay one step ahead.

I have just lost my patience with the criminals and the thugs and the sexual predators. One thing I'll do, I'll find the toughest legislation out there and enact it in Nebraska.

Fortunately, it's a rare occurrence. You know only criminals are taking the guns, and that gun can be turned around and used not only against you but also a fellow officer.

If we wish to maintain peace, then we cannot accept that impunity be provided to these international criminals and drug dealers.

Whatever they do, criminals and non-criminals act in particular ways. Some writers, for instance, use computers, others pen and paper. Some write in the morning, some at night. Each writer has a distinct style, with variations in grammar, sentence structure, and voice.

Guns don't fall from the sky into the hands of criminals. The crime gun market is fed by a small, identifiable group of reckless gun dealers. Yes, we must severely punish criminals who use guns. But we must also stop the flood of illegal guns at its source -- the gun dealers who put profit ahead of public safety.

His passing will hopefully remind people there are Nazi war criminals who can and should be prosecuted.

We have to balance the ease and convenience with security. If we don't do anything, criminals will become more sophisticated in separating people and their money.

He literally does not have an enemy in the world, unless it's some of the criminals he's prosecuted.

It is simply unthinkable that someone would beat another human being for sport. We need to send a message to these abhorrent criminals that being homeless does not make you target practice.

It is not worth it for criminals to take off the tag if they want to go ahead and sell it. Criminals do not want to hassle with it and wind up damaging the laptop.

It is important to prevent criminals capable of such inhuman behavior from taking advantage of this misery to justify their terrible acts.

I think there were a few things that really interested me. One was that I didn't know a lot about hooligan culture. I'd heard of football violence but I didn't quite understand how intense it really is, how organized it is, and more importantly, how these people aren't necessarily criminals or thugs in their daily life. They almost have this sort of double life. They're people with families and some of them have relatively good jobs. That fascinated me. And also the opportunity of being able to take a character from that kind of relatively innocent place to essentially making him a hooligan was very attractive to me. To explore a darker side of humanity that I'd not really explored in film before just as an actor was an interesting challenge.

I think suspense should be like any other color on a writer's palette. I suppose I'm in the minority but I think it's crazy for 'literary fiction' to divorce itself from stories that are suspenseful, and assign anything with cops or spies or criminals to some genre ghetto.

People are seeing things that no one likes to see. We've seen criminals try to prey on vulnerable people in the midst of a tragedy, and that's horrible.

Our systems are all go, ... At 9:30 Monday morning trading will resume on both markets, and the message will be given to criminals who foisted this on America that they lost.

Recent events where criminals were able to become customers have led us to take this strong action in order to regain the trust of consumers that their information is being used only for their benefit, or the benefit of society at large.

That began my challenge ? to secure America's borders from terrorists and other criminals without choking off the flow of legitimate trade and travel, which is so vital to our economy,

That arc of conflict has created a sort of regional super failed-state that terrorists and criminals have used to base their operations and to exploit the very precious diamond resources there.

Terrorists and criminals are increasingly adept at exploiting cutting-edge technologies to carry out or to mask their crimes. To counter current and emerging threats, the FBI actively deploys a wide range of technology-based tools, capabilities, and training that enable and enhance intelligence, national security, and law enforcement operations.

Many gangs and criminals have more sophisticated arms than the police do.

Mario is not a criminal. How many criminals do you know who turn themselves in?

It defies belief that a critical and hard-won body of evidence could be so quickly handed back, making it inaccessible to prosecutors and helping shield the criminals from justice.

Manufacturers and sellers acting within the law should not be held responsible for the actions of criminals who misuse their products.

We live in the world of Internet criminalization, with cartels that develop malicious code to make money. People still don't understand that criminals are in the underground and more are coming.

The actions carried out by Milosevic will not triumph, ... Barbarism cannot have the last word. Justice must really win in the end, and the criminals will have to defend themselves.

That's the point of having a CHL (concealed handgun license) in Texas -- potential criminals should assume everyone is (carrying).

Most Americans would want to hold criminals responsible for destroying or injuring unborn children once that child is chosen to be had,

White-collar crime isn't something that just takes place in Erie County. There shouldn't be any restrictions when it comes to solving white-collar crimes. The criminals are organized. I think the investigators should be just as organized.