Criminals Quotations | Page 4

It sends out a signal to potential criminals and can prompt people who suspect corruption somewhere in the chain to report it. Often, people are aware of something, but they are too scared to talk about it.

It's a shame. The serious criminals will get another year's head start.

It's a balancing act. We don't want to treat them like criminals after they have been traumatized, but we want to make sure they are in no danger nor the families they are housed with.

It was the most stupid thing to investigate when there are real criminals who should occupy the time of high ranking officers.

It's always a risk between the criminals and the good guys. So the better they become at hacking it, the better we'll become at making it stronger.

It's always more expensive to do something than nothing. But in the long run, it will be less expensive, because you're not creating as many lifetime criminals and you're helping more kids to become successful members of society.

It's a very common practice. The criminals are getting smarter and smarter every day.

Everyone likes to catch their man and get two criminals off the street, so from that point of view it was great. But the public will not notice any difference because of it.

The bill does nothing to target the one percent of gun dealers who are responsible for selling nearly half of the guns traced to crime, ... It does nothing to plug the NRA-sponsored loopholes that, among other things, allows criminals to get out of jail and get their guns back.

The borders are absolutely wide open, and we're under invasion from drug dealers, criminals and people from all around the world, ... Our Department of Homeland Security is absolutely impotent.

The benefits of our increasingly digital lives have been accompanied by new dangers, and we have been forced to consider how criminals and terrorists might use advances in technology to their advantage.

The Australians are actually the worst of the criminals from the United Kingdom, but not worst as in toughest. They're the ones who did stupid little things and got caught for it. Bad criminals.

It's important that businesses and home users ensure they are properly protected with automatically updated anti-virus software, and never open unsolicited email attachments. The criminals behind these viruses and Trojan horses don't stop just because it's the holiday season. They are counting on people returning in the New Year and not thinking before opening their email.

I've got a peculiar weakness for criminals and artists-neither takes life as it is. Any tragic story has to be in conflict with things as they are.

It was a good arrest. It's not easy to catch these types of criminals because they are usually in and out of an area pretty quickly.

It's time that for the legislature to get serious about protecting citizens from those criminals who victimize our neighborhoods and families with illegal guns.

I wanted to write an adventure in the old-fashioned way, something to which I could apply the adjective 'rollicking' and not feel embarrassed. But I've never liked my heroes to be too heroic, so they ended up being a bunch of criminals instead.

The two most repeated views I have been hearing from the community are the need for a better police presence and tougher sentencing for criminals using guns, ... Improving community programs and a coordinated youth strategy is also raised by many as a key factor in our efforts to stop this gun violence.

These people have the ability to hide and stay away from law enforcement in a way that traditional criminals are not able to do.

It's really not about stopping aid. It's about getting criminals back.

The Internet creates a whole new class of criminal. On the Internet you can have criminals coming from countries where we have no extradition treaties. How do you prosecute these people, or even investigate their crimes?

The insistence of the Danish government to refrain from apologizing and its refusal to punish the criminals and take action to prevent this crime from being repeated... shows that the notions of freedom of speech have no roots, especially when it comes to Muslims.

The families all want, and the rest of the public wants, to know that the state is doing everything it can to keep dangerous criminals off the street. There was clearly a failure in that, with disastrous results.

In much the same way criminals attack innocent people, they will attack each other.

If law enforcement officials have the tools to crack down on corrupt gun dealers and criminals face background checks wherever they buy guns, we can slow the flood of illegal guns to a trickle and save countless lives.

If you look at the big picture, I think the whole THG, designer drug scandal is a good thing for the sport, ... Every time someone gets caught I see that as a positive, because it is an effort to clean up the sport. We really have to look at drug use in sports, whether track and field or any other sport, just like you would look at crime in society. To think it is going to stop completely would be foolish and unrealistic. It is never going to happen. Just like with criminals in society, you are always going to have people who are raised with poor morals or who don't feel confident in their ability to go out and be successful without cheating someone else.

In simple terms criminals use vehicles. If you want to commit a crime, you're going to use a vehicle. There is nothing secretive about it and we don't want it to be secret, because we want people to feel safer, to see that they are protected.

I just think they should get a fair shake. They didn't. They didn't have the rights regular criminals get.

In the time I've been locked up here, I've met a lot of other people who are locked up and who may have committed crimes to be put here, but are not criminals anymore, they're really fine people and they're productive and an asset that society vastly under uses.

If you see something you think is wrong, we want you to tell somebody and forget about being called a snitch because that word was invented by criminals who don't want you to tell, ... You outnumber the bad guys.

In my state, from the time ... the most hardened criminals are convicted of the most heinous crimes ... their case is reviewed by not only a jury of 12 of their peers but up to 23 different judges ... perhaps even more.

California has a powerful law that enhances the penalties of criminals who commit hate crimes. The 'panic' defense all but invalidates this law by reducing sentences due to the hate the defendant had for his or her victim.

A new fascism promises security from the terror of crime. All that is required is that we take away the criminals' rights - which, of course, are our own. Out of our desperation and fear we begin to feel a sense of security from the new totalitarian state.

For 30 years I have tried to make it understood that there are no criminals,

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

Before September 11, 2001, our law enforcement officers caught criminals and locked them up, our firefighters put out fires and saved lives and property, and our emergency medical personnel cared for those injured in accidents. We now live in a new era. Our police officers, firefighters, and emergency medical personnel now have an added responsibility as the front line troops for hometown security.

Certainly, the human rights of people who are criminals, they have to be looked after, ... But more important in my view are the human rights of the people against whom the criminals commit their acts.

A genius. A criminal mastermind. A millionaire. And he is only twelve years old.

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

Hollywood no longer depicts reporters in ruthless pursuit of criminals, high and low. Now they are the criminals.

Out of 135 criminals, including robbers and rapists, 118 admitted that when they were children they burned, hanged and stabbed domestic animals.

The one thing prostitution is not is a 'victimless crime.' It attracts a wide species of preying criminals and generates a long line of victims, beginning with the most obvious and least understood - the prostitute herself.

All the time I'm not writing I feel like a criminal. It's horrible to feel felonious every second of the day. It's much more relaxing to actually write.

A criminal may improve and become a decent member of society. A foreigner cannot improve. Once a foreigner, always a foreigner. There is no way out for him.

A society should be judged not by how it treats its outstanding citizens but by how it treats its criminals.

German diligence is actually endurance.

Our criminal institutions are full of creeps like you who do wrong things, and many of them were driven to these crimes by the horrible force called music.

The Crime Victims Fund is distributed to service providers who assist millions of crime victims annually throughout our communities in a host of ways. It is paid for by fines levied on criminals, not taxpayers.

The criminal does not expect his prey to fight back. May he never choose you, but, if he does, surprise him.

It is high time for society to stop worrying about the criminal, and to let the criminal start worrying about society. And by "society" I mean you.

That is why our masters in Washington are so anxious to disarm us. They are not afraid of criminals. They are afraid of a populace which cannot be subdued by tyrants.

Be quiet! Anyone can spit in my face, and call me a criminal and a prostitute. But no one has the right to judge my remorse.

Too much virtue can be criminal.

I didn't really know what to expect from detention but when I waked into the room, the first thought I had was, I don't belong in here with these future criminals.

I categorically declare first my absolute innocence, second my lack of criminal intent, and third my effusive apologies.

I, for one, will not have [the Vietcong] insulted by any comparison to the forces of Zarqawi, the Fedayeen Saddam, and the criminal underworld now arrayed against us. These depraved elements are the Iraqi Khmer Rouge.

I've heard that while the show was on there were no reported crimes, or very few. When The Beatles were on Ed Sullivan, even the criminals had a rest for ten minutes.

Of course we're Criminals

We cannot be sure that we ought not to regard the most criminal country as that which in some aspects possesses the highest civilization.

Eighty percent of our criminals come from unsympathetic homes.

It is not our criminal actions that require courage to confess, but those which are ridiculous and foolish.

In a well governed state, there are few punishments, not because there are many pardons, but because criminals are rare; it is when a state is in decay that the multitude of crimes is a gaurantee of impunity.

If you knowingly and willingly embark on criminal behaviour, the consequences of that should be... that you lose some of your benefits under the current system

The free circulation of citizens, which is sacrosanct, cannot become the free circulation of criminals.

ICE is committed to using our law enforcement authorities to dismantle the methods criminals use to earn, move and store illicit funds. Our goal, as the primary investigative agency in the Department of Homeland Security, is to disrupt and deter activities that pose a threat to our nation' s welfare and public safety.

Nothing is unimportant to a man plunged in despair. He is as credulous as a criminal sentenced to death who listens to a lunatic raving to him about how he can escape through the keyhole.

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

If you get into crime you gotta know that everybody's a criminal and everybody's a liar, and everybody has the potential to backstab you, because it's not an honest profession. So don't go into crime and look for honesty.

I'm asked, what about criminal prosecution of those on wall street? You know what, it's probably because none of them committed any crimes. They just made some incredibly bad decisions.

A lot of street crime is horrible, but in terms of the dislocation, the undermining of the family - the corporate criminals, many of whom reside in Congress and the White House - are getting away literally with murder.

Let's forgive the Nazi war criminals.

The punishment of a criminal is an example to the rabble; but every decent man is concerned if an innocent person is condemned.

I don't know anybody in the underworld. I make this stuff up. I don't know any criminals.

What these memos do is they make legal acts that were criminal prior to these memos.

The detective and his criminal wear versions of the same mask.

Because we find somethings distasteful is not justification enough for us to deem them criminal.

Anti-drug fanatics and cops are the criminals - it's like McCarthyism. They need someone to dislike to distract the public from the really important problems.

I take responsibility for what happened at Enron, both good and bad. But I cannot take responsibility for criminal conduct that I was unaware of.

Now I can see how that can happen. You can fall in love with anybody--a fool, a criminal, a nothing. There are no good rules.

McKnight is gradually taking over the criminal end of the business.

Murder is a horror, but an often necessary horror, never criminal, which it is essential to tolerate in a republican State. Is it or is it not a crime? If it is not, why make laws for its punishment? And if it is, by what barbarous logic do you, to punish it, duplicate it by another crime?

I see now that dismissing YA books because you're not a young adult is a little bit like refusing to watch thrillers on the grounds that you're not a policeman or a dangerous criminal, and as a consequence, I've discovered a previously ignored room at the back of the bookstore that's filled with masterpieces I've never heard of.

War criminals in the U.S. and Israel are not punished: no international court has the courage to put them on trial.

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

In Russia, there are those who make their money in criminal ways, but I earn everything myself.

I wanted to be a prosecutor - a criminal lawyer - because there's nowhere where the stakes are higher, where you can wake up every day and believe in what you're doing.

Criminals thrive on society's understanding.

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

I mean, imagine how some unfortunate Master Criminal would feel, on coming down to do a murder at the old Grange, if he found that not only was Sherlock Holmes putting in the weekend there, but Hercule Poirot, as well." ~ Bertram "Bertie" Wooster

The criminal, like the artist, is a social explorer.

Race determines everything in the criminal justice system

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,

Letting someone down is not criminal action.

History is no criminal court

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.

All we want is justice for John Crawford and everyone responsible for John Crawford's death should be held responsible, the criminal justice system refused to hold those accountable so the civil system must.

Our criminal justice system has swallowed up too many people I love.

Nobody's a criminal to himself. I never play a criminal like a bad person.

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.

A criminal is twice a criminal when he adds hypocrisy to his crime.