Quotes About Criminal

But if I am a criminal, am I, then, an addict? Am I, then, a failure?

How annoyed I am with Society for wasting my time by making homosexuality criminal. The subterfuges, the self-consciousness that might have been avoided

The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be reguarded as a criminal offense.

In the criminal justice system you see the worst people on their best behavior, unlike the civil system, where the best people behave at their worst.

Actus non facit reum, nisi mens sit rea [The act is not criminal unless the intent is criminal].

Flagrante delicto ["Red-handed"].

a detective must occasionally be guided by his worst imaginings – which is to say that he must put himself in the mind of the criminal.

You're saying that you've managed to arrest a kid who's an insane criminal. You've put him in a prison with six other insane criminals, and you want Alex to pretend to be an insane criminal and move in with them. Well, you know what I think of that idea? It's insane!

Noir focuses on the criminal mind, not a whodunit: more why they did it and will they get away with it. The abnormal psychology is what fascinates me rather than the puzzle-solving aspect.

Eviction comes with a record. Just like a criminal record can hurt you in the jobs market, eviction can hurt you in the housing market. A lot of landlords turn folks away who have an eviction, and a lot of public housing authorities do the same.

Public housing is off-limits to you if you have been convicted of a felony. For a minimum of five years, you are deemed ineligible for public housing once you've been branded a felon. Discrimination in private housing market's perfectly legal.

Prosecutors use the conspiracy doctrine to punish two or more people who merely agree to commit a criminal act. They don't even have to actually perform the act; they just need to have agreed to do so.

I don't want to live in a society where we ask sporting leagues or place of employment to dole out harsher punishment than what the criminal justice system would.

The third factor is research, the big difference between the hard-nosed criminal and the super con man.

'Donnie Brasco' was 85 percent on the money. The only thing that they slanted was my feelings for Lefty and Sonny', and this idea that I didn't want to go through with seeing them in jail. I was never swayed. There was no conflict.

Healthy competition is good for the global economy. Criminal conduct is not. Rampant theft is not. Cheating is not.

One of his criminal associates hired me to represent him. That's how he found you, Hazel. He targeted you.

there had been changes to judges' rules in favour of the criminal,

To a man whose mind is free there is something even more intolerable in the sufferings of animals than in the sufferings of man. For with the latter it is at least admitted that suffering is evil and that the man who causes it is a criminal. But thousands of animals are uselessly butchered every day without a shadow of remorse. If any man were to refer to it, he would be thought ridiculous. And that is the unpardonable crime.

The Americans are certainly great hero worshippers, and always take their heroes from the criminal classes.

Confront all the angry thoughts, feelings, the jealousies and condemnations, to find their cause, seek the root of such feelings and then operate on that. Need of security and reassurance can cause criminal acts.

Need of security and reassurance can cause criminal acts. What can be removed is the motivation.

There is a side to Henry that is criminal, identifies itself to the criminal. In Cancer there was a total absence of feeling. Today his absence of feeling for France is appalling, inhuman, after ten years of life there. Why? I have sometimes a feeling for even a particular tree in Paris, a sudden tender remembrance of a certain street. Henry nothing.

Liberals defend criminal mobs to boost their own power and prestige. In a world of courts and rules, everyone is equal before the law. That's no good. Liberals need to be above the rest of society in order to impose the Rousseauian "general will" on us.