Quotes About Criminal

Much later, while I was recovering from being shot, I realized that the hunt for the last great Nazi war criminal had started because of a hunch I'd gotten while reading the newspaper.

If my life be not my own, it were criminal for me to put it in danger, as well as to dispose of it; nor could one man deserve the appellation of hero, whom glory or friendship transports into the greatest dangers, and another merit the reproach of wretch or misereant who puts a period to his life, from the same or like motives.

It is impious, says the modern European superstition, to put a period to our own life, and thereby rebel against our creator: and why not impious, say I, to build houses, cultivate the ground, or sail upon the ocean? In all these actions we employ our powers of mind and body to produce some innovation in the course of nature; and in non of them do we any more. They are all of them therefore equally innocent, or equally criminal.

Horror movies -- of the genuinely fantastic, supernatural variety -- had not been invented yet, at least not in America, where convention dictated that supernatural occurrences always be "explained away," usually as the disguise or machinations of a criminal.

It's nearly impossible for a criminal to come from a good mother.

There is one transcendant advantage belonging to the province of the State governments . . . -I mean the ordinary administration of criminal and civil justice.

Government is, and always has been, the greatest criminal threat to the peaceful members of society.

It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.

My dad once said that in criminal law you see terrible people on their best behavior in family law you see great people on their worst behavior.

Our impulses are our birthright. To alter personality would be unjust, almost criminal, for the impulses that make a fool or worse of us in certain circumstances may be necessary for our happiness.

Some trials look as much like the trial of an ordinary criminal case as a Hitchcock film looks like a home movie.

He was as honest as any criminal can hope to be.

Humanity is the crime; God is the criminal.

If Spiderman was real, and I was a criminal, and he shot me with his web, I would say, "Dude, thanks for the hammock."

How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!

You know what makes me the maddest?" Mark seemed confused and somewhat sullen. He took out his pipe and began to pack it from a leather pouch. "That I have to act like a criminal.

Mark had obviously contemplated it and rejected it. He was livid. "And why should I go to jail? Am I a criminal? Have I hurt anyone

Criminal,' Cynthia called his inability to kick back and let circumstances take their course. In his book, circumstances without close supervision had a tendency to wind up in the ditch.

All warfare that is not defensive is criminal.

Hey," he was saying, "guess what the most common word is in criminal tattoos." "I have no idea." " Love . Hands down. They love their mothers, they love some girl, they love Jesus. And they keep right on doing wrong.

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The motive of revenge is criminal if it creeps into the breast even in demanding the just punishment of a delinquent; much more if it push men to vindicate their own cause themselves by returning injury for injury, and wreaking wrongs on those that inflicted them.

Everywhere among the English-speaking race criminal justice was rude, and punishments were barbarous but the tendency was to do away with special privileges and legal exemptions.

For there to be equivalence [between a premeditated crime and a crime of "pure violence"], the death penalty would have to punish a criminal who had warned his victim of the date at which he would inflict a horrible death on him and who, from that moment onward, had confined him at his mercy for months. Such a monster is not encountered in private life.