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Quotes About Criminals

Only criminals want to use cash.
~ Charles W. Scharf
When you go to jail, you are under the supervision of the state. You are housed with people who are criminals, so that becomes the expectation. People learn to become better criminals in jail and prison.
~ Carl Hart
Si la plata era lo único que justificaba las muertes y si lo que han hecho la han hecho por plata y ahora la queman, quiere decir que no tienen moral, ni motivos, que actúan y matan gratuitamente, por el gusto del mal, por pura maldad, son asesinos de nacimiento, criminales insensibles, inhumanos [...] Pero todos comprendieron que ese acto era una declaración de guerra total, una guerra directa y en regla contra toda la sociedad.
~ Ricardo Piglia
Most Americans think that crime has gotten far too high. But in the ruminations about how the nation has reached this state and what might be done, too little attention has been given to one of the best-documented relationships in the study of crime: As a group, criminals are below average in intelligence.
~ Richard J. Herrnstein
Criminals are getting younger and dumber
~ Julie Garwood
...congenital killers and criminals are possessed of not one but two Y chromosomes, bearing a double dose, as it were, of genetically undesirable maleness.
~ Elizabeth Gould Davis
We're releasing hardened criminals from jails all over California. They don't have the money. They don't have the room anymore. The jails are overflowing so we gotta get rid of somebody.
~ Rush Limbaugh
The American Constitution was not written to protect criminals; it was written to protect the government from becoming criminals.
~ Lenny Bruce
I never took that stuff personally when people said I was too young, too inexperienced. I get politics. I get attack ads. But they said 'mobbed up family.' That we were criminals. That kills me.
~ Alexi Giannoulias
The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren
~ Ayn Rand
We don't give our criminals much punishment, but we sure give 'em plenty of publicity.
~ Will Rogers
De ce sunt oare to?i nebunii ?i criminalii atât de religio?i în ziua de azi?
~ David Lagercrantz
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.
~ David Mamet
Sinners cannot find God for the same reason that criminals cannot find a policeman: They aren't looking!
~ Billy Sunday
Every country has criminals who have to be fought. They can exist anywhere, including the government or the army - or outside the government and army.
~ Bashar al-Assad
Was not war itself a crime against God and humanity, and therefore, were not all those who sanctioned, engineered and conducted wars, war criminals?
~ Mahatma Gandhi
These monstrous criminals have demonstrated a vile and brutal affront against humanity.
~ Silvio Berlusconi
As historian Dick de Mildt argues, "By converting the criminal actors of the story into demon-like lunatics, we distance ourselves from them in a radical fashion, assuming them to belong to a different species which only remotely resembles us in physiognomy.
~ James Waller
A great wave of humiliation and shame swept over me. Shame that I belonged to a race that could be so dealt with; and shame for my country, that it, the great example of democracy to the world, should be the only civilized, if not the only state on earth, where a human being would be burned alive. My heart turned bitter within me. I could understand why Negroes are led to sympathize with even their worst criminals and to protect them when possible.
~ James Weldon Johnson
The drug dealers are all capitalists and criminals, selling rubbish at high prices. Marijuana and hash should be legalized and the rest should be prohibited.
~ Janwillem van de Wetering
The hotel, for all its sober state, was no longer fashionable. No one, in my memory, had ever known any one who went there; it was frequented by "politicians" and "Westerners," two classes of citizens whom my mother's intonation always seemed to deprive of their vote by ranking them with illiterates and criminals.
~ Edith Wharton
I do remember with great pleasure, if not terribly clearly, a play by Richard Foreman with music by Stanley Silverman called Hotel For Criminals, which I saw in a sinisterly suitable mansion in the cultured wilds of western Massachusetts in the summer of 1974, and which could be described as based loosely on Fantomas.
~ Edward Gorey
We don't punish criminals in our enlightened age, we cure 'em; and the cure is worse than punishment.
~ Alfred Bester
Criminals take advantage of weak laws, like giving driver's licenses to illegal immigrants.
~ Susana Martinez