A Criminal Quotes

#1. We should not televise trials. There's only one purpose for a criminal trial. It's to determine whether or not the defendant committed the crime. Anything that interferes or has the potential of interfering with that should automatically be prohibited.

Vincent Bugliosi

#2. Many a criminal has finally given himself over to the authorities because the accusations of a guilty conscience were worse than prison bars.

Billy Graham

#3. You'd think old age was a criminal offense, not a destination we're all heading to.

David Mitchell

#4. We have secrets, and we have the same secrets that criminals have. Sometimes the only difference between a criminal and a law-abiding citizen is that somebody found out the criminal's secret.

Jane Velez-Mitchell

#5. No one here is a criminal. No one is an addict. No one is a failure.

E. Lockhart

#6. The Netherlands is a wonderful country," said Sigerius. "If you're determined to be a bad egg, there's a great big professional circle of friends ready to help you. Whoever doesn't have the balls to just get out and work, but does have a criminal record, is given a nice subsidized job.

Anonymous

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

Michael Caine

#8. If I'm a criminal, and I'm confronted with a 7-foot tall cop and an albino cop, I'm gonna be so lost, I'm spilling my guts.

Joelle Carter

#9. To be a good actor you have to be something like a criminal, to be willing to break the rules to strive for something new.

Nicolas Cage

#10. A criminal is undoubtedly a poor soul, who is punished for his poverty.

Thomas Bernhard

#11. The Master said of Gong Yechang, "He is marriageable. Although he was once imprisoned and branded as a criminal, he was in fact innocent of any crime." The Master gave him his daughter in marriage.
(Analects 5.1)

Confucius

#12. You have a fighting spirit. I admire that, or would admire it should you choose to harness it to a worthier cause than that of someone considered a criminal subversive by his own national government.

Philip Roth

#13. The deviant that does not observe the trivial uses of the language is a poet, a deviant who violates the banal customs of society is a criminal.

William C. Brown

#14. So I was still guilty. And if I was not guilty because one cannot be guilty of betraying a criminal, then I was guilty of having loved a criminal.

Bernhard Schlink

#15. Whether a man is a criminal or a public servant is purely a matter of perspective.

Tom Robbins

#16. Scientists search for truth. Philosophers search for morality. A criminal trial searches for only one result: proof beyond a reasonable doubt.

Alan Dershowitz

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

Eoin Colfer

#18. I am no longer a criminal. I gave up that practice years ago.

Ronald Biggs

#19. If it is necessary for a criminal to be a consummate actress, then by all means assume her to be one.

Agatha Christie

#20. When you print out your manuscript and read it, marking up with a pen, it sometimes feels like a criminal returning to the scene of a crime.

Don Roff

#21. What can I do if everyone from the president to a junior bureaucrat is dying to convict me. If I am such a criminal, what was I doing outside jail before my marriage to Benazir?

Asif Ali Zardari

#22. To me-the foulest man on earth, more contemptible than a criminal, is the man who rejects men for being too good.

Ayn Rand

#23. Why do we assume that educating a criminal is merely helping him commit more sophisticated crimes? Why can't we assume that an education can give this person the tools to make more acceptable choices?

Laura Bates

#24. IF INDEED THESE VARIOUS ATTACKS IN DIFFERENT STATES ARE LINKED, then we're dealing with a set of highly complex ritual behaviors," said Dr. Lawrence Zucker. A criminal psychologist who served as consultant to Boston PD,

Tess Gerritsen

#25. There is no law in the world - there is no law unwritten, there's no law on the books - that's gonna stop a criminal from getting a gun.

Rush Limbaugh

#26. So the difference between a criminal and a hero is the order in which their vile crimes are committed. And justice comes with a sell-by date. In that case, you'd better hurry. You wouldn't want your heroism to spoil.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#27. A criminal remains a criminal whether he uses a convict's suit or a monarch's crown.

Victor Hugo

#28. [Barack] Obama believes you can hold enemy combatants, unlawful enemy combatants at Gitmo without a criminal trial because this is law of war detention.

Chris Matthews

#29. A criminal will never forgive you for preventing them from committing the crime that is really in their heart.

Norman Mailer

#30. I worked with Mikhail Saakashvili for more than six years. I was his right-hand man. He never accused me of anything during that time. But the minute I switched to the opposition, I was suddenly called a criminal. It was a political maneuver.

Irakli Okruashvili

#31. If anybody ever dares to compare Bob Dole to Clinton, then they're comparing a criminal to an honest man.

Sonny Bono

#32. When he felt like a criminal, he reminded himself that a land without law is a land without crime.

Anthony Marra

#33. I sincerely believe that I have served a criminal. I led my soldiers in good conscience ... but for a criminal government.

Walter Model

#34. You cannot "love" a dog out of her bad behavior, just as you can't "love" a criminal into stopping his crimes.

Cesar Millan

#35. I would certainly not want my child to be schizophrenic. I wouldn't want him or her to be a criminal either. If, on the other hand, I had a deaf child, it would help that I have developed a real admiration for Deaf culture.

Andrew Solomon

#36. In America if you're poor, you're worse than a criminal. You're nobody.

Nelson DeMille

#37. Look at them running to and fro about the streets, every one of them a scoundrel and a criminal at heart and, worse still, an idiot. But try to get me off and they'd be wild with righteous indignation. Oh, how I hate them all!

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#38. Forgiveness has nothing to do with absolving a criminal of his crime. It has everything to do with relieving oneself of the burden of being a victim
letting go of the pain and transforming oneself from victim to survivor.

C.R. Strahan

#39. Today's difference between Russia and the United States is that in Russia everybody takes everybody else for a spy, and in the United States everybody takes everybody else for a criminal.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

#40. Modus Operandi, or method of operation, is really a term that refers to the habits, techniques and peculiarities of behavior of a criminal. All criminals have a modus operandi,

Mauro V. Corvasce

#41. In the 1950s, buggery was a criminal offence. Now it's a requirement to receive benefits from the federal government.

Garry Breitkreuz

#42. I never decided to become an art forger. I was aware of my talent at an early age, and I used it foolishly. This developed over the years. In my heart, I don't see myself as a criminal.

Wolfgang Beltracchi

#43. If it is a crime to love the South, its cause and its President, then I am a criminal. I would rather lie down in this prison and die than leave it owing allegiance to a government such as yours.

Belle Boyd

#44. We can no longer tolerate what's going on in Ottawa and Edmonton. What I would challenge you to do is to put a lot of effort into trying to see whether there's a legal way of throwing our so-called leaders into jail because what they're doing is a criminal act.

David Suzuki

#45. If I was a criminal, stationery stores and bakeries would be the two kinds of places I would concentrate on.

John Turturro

#46. You know, I always liked that about you, Janet. You think like a criminal.

Starr Ambrose

#47. Apathy.

The reason you may wake up one day being not only a 2nd class citizen, but a criminal because of who you are - and then wonder why 'somebody' didn't do something when there was still time?

Christina Engela

#48. 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.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#49. Even a criminal has the right to a new life, but they made sure I did not have that. They just didn't stop calling me a prostitute for ever and ever and ever and ever.

Christine Keeler

#50. Well first of all, for a criminal practice there has to be a gun. It's pretty simple.

Tom McClintock

#51. Just tell me, baby."

"Do not - "

"I'm allowed to call you 'baby'
when I'm pretending to be a criminal. That's how criminals talk,

Audrey Bell

#52. You feel like a criminal. Knowing you can knock somebody out and know you can put somebody in a temporary coma, that's what you want to go for. It shows how strong, how powerful a person can be to be able to do that.

Henry Cejudo

#53. Smooth, but not a criminal.

Markham J. Geller

#54. The man who gives his own decisions priority over society is a criminal.

Alfred Bester

#55. I've been lucky-my looks haven't put me into one category. I don't look like a blue blood. I don't look like a criminal. I don't look like anything.

Tim Robbins

#56. None of my 'clients' - not Eichmann, not Stangl, not Mengele, and not even Hitler or Stalin - was born a criminal. Somebody had to teach them to hate: maybe the society, maybe the politics, maybe just a Jewish prostitute.

Simon Wiesenthal

#57. I am sure from my experience of juries that, in a criminal case especially, they will obey the law as declared by the Judge; they will take the law from the Judge, whether they like it or do not like it, and apply it honestly to the facts before them.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#58. Historically, terrorism falls in a category different from crimes that concern a criminal court judge.

Jurgen Habermas

#59. The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Publilius Syrus

#60. The killing of a criminal can be moral-but never its legitimation.

Walter Benjamin

#61. To be a criminal needs great unconsciousness. Meditation destroys your unconsciousness, opens the doors of light and suddenly what you were doing in the darkness starts disappearing.

Rajneesh

#62. Do not sleep under a roof. Carry no money or food. Go alone to places frightening to the common brand of men. Become a criminal of purpose. Be put in jail, and extricate yourself by your own wisdom.

Miyamoto Musashi

#63. I have knowledge; I'm responsible. If I sit by and do nothing while I have the ability to change, to help, then I'm just as much a criminal as any. Power begets responsibility...You should know that.

Brandon R. Chinn

#64. You have the knowledge of a businessman, the plans of a criminal mastermind, the actions of a cold-blooded killer, and the words of honor like those of a knight.

Kel Kade

#65. Momma, a welfare cheater. A criminal who couldn't stand to se her kids go hungry, or grow up in slumbs and end up mugging people in dar corners. I guess the system didn't want her to get off relief, the way it kept sending social workers around to be sure Momma wasn't trying to make things better.

Dick Gregory

#66. As an example, in Texas a licensing law was passed that requires computer-repair technicians to obtain a criminal justice degree or serve a three-year apprenticeship under a licensed private investigator.

Brian Phillips

#67. People had always said that Ove was bitter. But he wasn't bloody bitter. He just didn't go around grinning the whole time. Did that mean one had to be treated like a criminal? Ove hardly thought so. Something inside a man goes to pieces when he has to bury the only person who ever understood him.

Fredrik Backman

#68. Whattaya mean you ain't no criminal lawyer? You a lawyer right? And you in here, that means you also a criminal.

Kenneth Eade

#69. These were wise, modern children, and they knew: a mother could be a witch, a child could be a criminal. A librarian could be a thief.

Rebecca Makkai

#70. If you wish to tell me what crime I have committed, explain to me in what a crime consists. For as my conscience does not accuse me, I aver that I am not a criminal.

Alexandre Dumas

#71. You may turn into an archangel, a fool, or a criminal - no one will see it. But when a button is missing - everyone sees that.

Erich Maria Remarque

#72. I wanted to study painting and become a painter, but I had a huge flip-over in my life when I was about 18 or 19. I was part of a criminal environment; I got arrested and convicted, and I had to start thinking in a new way.

Aksel Hennie

#73. treat you like a criminal," he said, showing a slide of an inmate in striped prison garb. Then a slide of Bob Dylan came on the screen. "People want to own the music they love.

Walter Isaacson

#74. The passed Pawn is a criminal, who should be kept under lock and key. Mild measures, such as police surveillance, are not sufficient

Aron Nimzowitsch

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

Mikhail Lermontov

#76. I think there is a case for strong action and intervention when there is criminality and when the leaders are corrupt or behaving in a criminal fashion.

Jay Weatherill

#77. I think the novel form chose me. I was a writer before I became a criminal ... my first instinct was to write.

Gregory David Roberts

#78. Jay Carney, whose unenviable job is not to explain but to explain away what his employers say, calls the IRS's behavior "inappropriate. " No, using the salad fork for the entree is inappropriate. Using the Internal Revenue Service for political purposes is a criminal offense.

George Will

#79. I like you," I said honestly. "Even though you're probably a criminal and are going to get me thrown off the force. And you kicked me. Broke my nose. Made me gay and refused to kiss me." (Austin to Peter; "Shattered Glass

Dani Alexander

#80. The Black Panthers was what we would call today a criminal gang that was formed by Huey Newton. Now, interestingly enough, I knew Huey Newton before he formed the Black Panthers. He was a student of mine when I was a teacher, instructor at Oakland City College back in the very early 1960s.

Edwin Meese

#81. Let me be clear - no one is above the law. Not a politician, not a priest, not a criminal, not a police officer. We are all accountable for our actions.

Antonio Villaraigosa

#82. He exists and we have four people who identified him and I know who he is, where he is, what his phone number is, everything about him that one needs. All I need is a criminal trial so I can have him subpoenaed.

William Pepper

#83. I start out with the assumption that a lawyer in a criminal case is going to be incompetent - substantially so. I find my assumption to be rarely wrong. Yet society starts out with the very opposite assumption.

Vincent Bugliosi

#84. Young George spent more money on one day of his Inauguration Ceremonies than Richard Nixon did on his whole Campaign in 1972 - and Nixon was crucified as a Criminal Spendthrift with the ethics of a snake.

Hunter S. Thompson

#85. I confess to loving a good murder mystery - anything by Scott Turow or John Grisham. Maybe it's a holdover from my days as a criminal prosecutor in Seattle.

Gary Locke

#86. Might have to go to London," she murmured. "Huh. Wouldn't it be a kick in the head if I really did have to be out of the country hunting a criminal mastermind when Mavis goes into labor?"
"I, my ass. That goes to we or I'll hurt you

J.D. Robb

#87. An inmate in a Florida prison wrote to agree with me on the availability of guns, saying that a 'criminal can and will get a stolen gun faster than you can get your car washed.' He also points out that many criminals prefer guns gotten illegally, since they will be harder to trace.

Thomas Sowell

#88. If anybody had a reason to become a delinquent, to become a criminal, to be angry at the man, to be angry at the white man, to be angry at America, it's my dad, but he did not feel that way at all.

Larry Elder

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

E. Lockhart

#90. If someone doesn't want to be a criminal anymore, I can give them tools that can better their life. You have no idea how many people want to know what Scientology is.

Tom Cruise

#91. A criminal has only a stone in the cold chest
that does not breathe.
Amen, Petra Hermans
25-9-2016
God
Babaji

Petra Hermans

#92. I'm real bent on dialogue. I'm just a little bit crazy and when you put that along with 20 years as a criminal lawyer, it's pretty easy to come up with some interesting plots.

Christopher Darden

#93. I sit back and try to think. I've been discovering, much to my dismay, that I'm not a criminal mastermind or anything. I'm just brute force and my powers in no way include super-intelligence, which kind of pisses me off.

Kelly Thompson

#94. One is a criminal to some people and an artist to others. I can understand that. In a legal sense, I am a convicted criminal.

Wolfgang Beltracchi

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

Marie Corelli

#96. It strikes fear to my heart when Peter talks of later being a criminal, or of gambling; although it's meant as a joke, of course, it gives me the feeling that he's afraid of his own weakness.

Anne Frank

#97. They can't strike against smugglers! We're not the government. We are a criminal private-enterprise operation!

Bruce Sterling

#98. Everyone is a criminal! We are beset on all sides by antirevolutionary forces. Naturally, then, humans fall into three categories: the criminal, the not-yet-criminal, and the not-yet-caught.

Catherynne M Valente

#99. I can be jailed again at any time, it is very easy. They can say I am a criminal and just lock me up.

Chen Guangcheng

#100. My head is a prison I've been locked in from the start,
So if I'm treated like a criminal I might as well play the part.
(attrib: E. Tancarville)

Dan Garfat-Pratt