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Quotes About Criminal

Uncle Junior is a criminal, which makes him a villain, so it makes people want to watch him. My whole life as an actor has been preparing for something like this.
~ Dominic Chianese
The American people do not want people thumbing their nose at the law. It undercuts the very fabric of our society and the system of civil justice and of criminal justice as well.
~ Ernest Istook
Most public housing authorities automatically deny eligibility to anyone with a criminal record. No other country deprives people of the right to housing because of their criminal histories.
~ Susan Burton
A judge sometimes must release a criminal. He doesn't like it, she doesn't like it, but the law requires it. And the context of an election in which you are "soft on crime" betrays a misunderstanding of the judicial process and a misunderstanding of the Constitution.
~ Anthony Kennedy
I've played many criminals, but I loved playing somebody on the right side of the law who had a family and who had ethics.
~ Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
Love is the only criminal who, after stealing your heart, convinces you to celebrate her.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
I've read articles by child psychologists who have identified lack of self-esteem as the evil at the root of so much bad, even criminal behavior. I don't know if that's right. But even if it is, I don't believe Belle and Joe will gain self-esteem by constantly being told they're special just for being there.
~ Muffy Mead-Ferro
Aunt Lavinia always had a near-religious belief that it was wicked to inflict one's personal despair on others. Any display of self-pity or self-dissatisfaction she saw as a social cruelty that was very nearly criminal.
~ Caroline Blackwood
The prison-industrial complex and the military-industrial complex are here with us and are multi-billion dollar enterprises. We can make more money off the kid in Compton if he's a criminal instead of a scholar. It's business.
~ Henry Rollins
I'm very mindful of the need to ensure we have a criminal justice system in which people have confidence.
~ Chris Grayling
I think almost all manic depressives exhibit some kind of criminal behaviour, even if it's something as minimal as shoplifting, but then they often go on to bigger and better things - in my case, it was fraud.
~ Andy Behrman
ON SEPTEMBER 2, 2009, THE TRANSNATIONAL PHARMACEUTICAL GIANT Pfizer pled guilty to multiple criminal felonies. It had been marketing drugs in a way that may well have led to the deaths of people and that definitely led physicians to prescribe and patients to use pharmaceuticals in ways they were not intended.
~ Thom Hartmann
A criminal is undoubtedly a poor soul, who is punished for his poverty.
~ Thomas Bernhard
Starling looked at Crawford steadily, but she was too still. "Hannibal the Cannibal," she said.
~ Thomas Harris
As a former attorney general. I have the greatest respect for the criminal justice system. But it is not good at intelligence gathering.
~ Kelly Ayotte
The cause of this century's brutality is not simply the evil that lies in some men's hearts. It is also our collective failure to build on the Nuremberg precedent by ensuring that all such killers are brought to justice. -Toward An International Criminal Court
~ Kenneth Roth
teachings about the "infantile-perverse-criminal" unconscious have led people to make a dangerous monster out of the unconscious, that really very natural thing. As if all that is good, reasonable, beautiful and worth living for had taken up its abode in consciousness!
~ C.G. Jung
All of which would have been merely comical, had it not also reflected a very serious reality: most such officials, in their zeal to treat every criminal event as a chance to display supreme control of social order, had forgotten that lawbreakers most often operate quietly and in the shadows, places where men wearing body armor and military helmets not only were out of place, but made the task of investigating the dark deeds that take place in those shadows all the more difficult.
~ Caleb Carr
I don't believe in such a thing as the criminal mind. Everyone's mind is criminal, we're all capable of criminal fantasies and thoughts." - Karl Menninger
~ Gavin de Becker
All life is made up of trivial actions.... Every one of them leaves its little trace. Whether you are tracking a bear by its footprints through the forest, or a criminal through his nefarious deeds, it is the same thing. Both leave their spoor behind.
~ Gelett Burgess
For long ages, too, no notice whatever was taken of the criminals sin; he was regarded as harmful, not guilty, and looked upon as a piece of destiny; and the criminal on his side took his punishment as a piece of destiny which had overtaken him, and bore it with the same fatalism ... In general we may say that punishment tames the man, but does not make him better.
~ Georg Morris Cohen Brandes
Henry Kissinger is the greatest living war criminal in the world today, with the blood of millions of people in Vietnam and Cambodia and Laos and Chile and East Timor on his hands. He will never appear in a court or be behind bars.
~ George Galloway
Obama has a strong record on immigration enforcement, outdoing both Republican and Democratic predecessors. He has deported over 1 million immigrants, focusing on those with criminal records. As documented by many nonpartisan sources, by 2011, Obama had reduced illegal immigration crossings to net zero.
~ Donna Brazile
We must confront this Zionist entity. All ties of all kinds must be severed with this plundering criminal entity, which is supported by America and its weapons, as well as by its own nuclear weapons, the existence of which is well known. It will bring about their own destruction.
~ Mohammed Morsi