Top 100 Quotes About Criminals
#1. We cannot be sure that we ought not to regard the most criminal country as that which in some aspects possesses the highest civilization.
Havelock Ellis
#2. In the myopic world of the liberals, guns are responsible for evil instead of the perpetrator of evil. But criminals are not bound by our laws. That's what makes them criminals.
Rick Perry
#3. All the time I'm not writing I feel like a criminal. It's horrible to feel felonious every second of the day. It's much more relaxing to actually write.
Fran Lebowitz
#5. Government is, and always has been, the greatest criminal threat to the peaceful members of society.
Richard Ebeling
#6. Most criminals are stupid. They creep $500,000 homes in the Garden District, load up two dozen bottles of gin, whiskey, vermouth, and Collins mix in a $2,000 Irish linen tablecloth and later drink the booze and throw the tablecloth away.
James Lee Burke
#7. Germans must fight Jews, that organized body of world criminals against whom Christ, the greatest anti-Semite of all time, had fought.
Julius Streicher
#8. I don't buy that there's nothing we can do to stop criminals and the mentally ill from killing if they want to.
Mike Quigley
#9. The chance of a criminal getting caught,
is only slightly better than getting hit by lightning.
Michael Peterson
#10. Can one be a follower of Jesus Christ ... and have countries attacked. The lives, reputations and possessions of people destroyed and on the slight chance of the presence of a few criminals in a village, city, or convoy for example, the entire village, city or convoy set ablaze.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
#11. There were millions of such families anxious only for peace and quiet in their own little nests. These were the mounting blocks by which the criminals climbed to power and kept it.
Simon Wiesenthal
#12. Where princes are concerned, a man who is able to do good is as dangerous and almost as criminal as a man who intends to do evil.
Jean Francois Paul De Gondi
#13. These are Canadian and United States intelligence and law enforcement offices who are working in teams and who are using good intelligence and good law enforcement to really stop the criminals and terrorists before they ever get to the border.
Paul Cellucci
#14. Let soldiers on manoeuvres plant trees. Give police and criminals a shovel and a thousand seedlings.
John Wright
#15. J. Edgar Hoover very famously denied the existence of organized crime up until the Appalachian Meeting, I think, in 1957. It was interesting to me that he clearly had to know that there was such a thing as organized crime and organized criminals as far back as the '20s.
Terence Winter
#16. Our freedom is also incomplete, dear compatriots, as long as we are denied our security by criminals who prey on our communities, who rob our businesses and undermine our economy, who ply their destructive trade in drugs in our schools, and who do violence against our women and children.
Nelson Mandela
#17. I'm worried about greenwashing. I think we should come down on it very, very hard, whether it's with criminal intent or actively deceptive.
John Elkington
#19. I think any person who goes to Rikers is criminalized, even just for visiting. I go back every week to see my friends in there. When you go to see a criminal, you are by relation a criminal and subject to be treated like one.
Cecily McMillan
#20. Rip the prisons
open
put the
convicts
on
television
Norman Mailer
#21. A crime is a crime irrespective of the birth marks of the criminal.
Narendra Modi
#22. Bootleggers were romanticized by people like F. Scott Fitzgerald, for example. Gatsby is a bootlegger. And they were not thought of as evil criminals in the newspapers, either. There was a certain amount of affection for them.
Pete Hamill
#23. Laws directed against opinions affect the generous-minded rather than the wicked, and are adapted less for coercing criminals than for irritating the upright.
Baruch Spinoza
#24. Sharks are the criminals of the sea. Dolphins are the outlaws.
Tom Robbins
#25. This is preposterous. Why would I lie? I'm not a criminal. The criminals are the ones in the cells." - Mien
"The prisoners are the ones in the cells," Skulduggery corrected. "Criminals can be anyywhere.
Derek Landy
#26. Who else but that oracle of American liberalism, the New York Times, could run the puzzled headline: "Crime Keeps On Falling, but Prisons Keep On Filling." But? How about this wild theory: If you lock up the criminals, crime declines.
Charles Krauthammer
#27. When scores of indicted criminals sit in parliament who could believe in the rule of law ...
Donna Leon
#28. Basque and Celt. Criminals and barbarians. I didn't think there could be a more primitive pairing of genes.
Karen Marie Moning
#29. Criminals are the most decent and least offensive people among us.
Ernesto Sabato
#30. The need to be cared for is the base of everything. In the penitentiaries, you won't hear gangbangers and criminals say, 'No, I don't want to be cared for by nobody.' When you care about them, they'll open up to you.
Jim Brown
#31. The black homicide rate is seven times that of whites, and the George Zimmermans of the world are not the reason. Some 90 percent of black murder victims are killed by other blacks. Why should we care more about black criminals than their black victims?
Jason L. Riley
#32. (I think, legally speaking, there's a very solid case for impeaching every American president since the Second World War. They've all been either outright war criminals or involved in serious war crimes.) The
Noam Chomsky
#33. Cross the wrong state border with your gun, or wake up one morning to new legislation or a new presidential executive order, and suddenly you're the bad guy, not the good guy. No wonder some gun owners seem so touchy; they feel, at some level, like criminals in waiting.
Walter Kirn
#34. True modesty avoids everything that is criminal; false modesty everything that is unfashionable.
Joseph Addison
#35. the Los Angeles Times surmised that "hippies, property owners, . . . and police are involved in a conflict with social overtones that far transcend Venice." The police hated the hippies, "whom they regarded as wastrels infiltrated by hard-core criminals and left-wing political extremists.
John McMillian
#36. We must always remember that the police are recruited from the criminal classes.
Gore Vidal
#37. Criminals together. We're in hell, my little friend, and there's never any mistake there. People are not damned for nothing.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#39. The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.
Barry Goldwater
#40. Everyone was always in danger, after all. From cancer, from car crashes and plane crashes, from criminals. Most people managed denial; managed to pretend they were safe.
John Shirley
#41. We will never be able to understand the terrible things that happened between 1933 and 1945 if we deny from the outset that Hitler also had human characteristics, and if we fail to take into account not only his criminal energies, but also the appealing qualities he had.
Volker Ullrich
#42. I feel like I am doing a lot, but if someone asks me what exactly I have accomplished, I don't know ... putting my son to sleep, feeding him, taking care of things in the house amount to a lot of work. But, yes, I haven't arrested 14 criminals in one day or saved the world or anything of that sort!
Kajol
#43. It was outrageous that [Donald Trump] would be advocating [that] women who exercise their constitutional right and have autonomy over their healthcare decisions would be criminals, along with the doctors that served them. He did try to walk it back - I think pretty unconvincingly.
Hillary Clinton
#44. Governments commit more crimes upon persons and property and contribute more to their insecurity than all [the] criminals put together.
Josiah Warren
#45. Great things are accomplished by men who are not conscious of the impotence of man. Such insensitiveness is precious. But we must admit that criminals are not unlike our heroes in this respect.
Paul Valery
#46. Freedom without opportunity is a devil's gift, and the refusal to provide such opportunities is criminal
Noam Chomsky
#47. I'm Dan Gelber. As a federal prosecutor, I helped put away corporate criminals, corrupt politicians and violent gangs.
Dan Gelber
#48. Ty smiled slowly and took a step toward him. "You totally just outed us to the criminals," he said as he pointed a finger at Zane (Armed & Danderous)
Abigail Roux
#49. Youth should learn to think and act as a mass. It is criminal to think as individuals!
Che Guevara
#50. By 2009, [Richard] DeVos's son, Dick and daughter-in-law Betsy were major donors on the Koch lust and facing a $5.2 million civil fine of their own for violating Ohio's campaign-finance laws.
Jane Mayer
#51. When the true criminals are running around free, the only honorable place for a decent human being is in prisons.
Henry David Thoreau
#52. So the criminals win, that's what you're saying? For now they do. But it's a long game, Jamison. And I always play for the long game.
David Baldacci
#53. There is no question that abuse, drugs and exposure to violence at home can exacerbate someone's criminal tendencies enormously. But there are many, many criminals who don't come from that background.
Andrew Solomon
#54. In America there is a channel called TruTV which is just reruns of 'Cops' and 'World's Dumbest Criminals'. I could watch that the entire day.
Robert Pattinson
#55. The main difference between marketing and fraud is that criminals have to pay for their own alcohol.
Scott Adams
#56. You're saying the media is dangerous, immoral, and antidemocratic?" "Well . . . yes," Henderson said. "They don't recognize it in themselves, but they're basically criminals. In the classic sense of that word.
John Sandford
#57. If you're like me, you probably take your cell phone with you everywhere you go. That means that everywhere you go, you can be tracked and located through that cell phone. It's a feature of cell phones that's not often mentioned, but that is being used by law enforcement to catch criminals.
Audie Cornish
#58. The Claudians," I observed, "are a family of insane hereditary criminals.
John Maddox Roberts
#59. Most of the kids that I meet in the street are serious hardened criminals that I meet in the street, never had a mother and a father to love them, to protect them, to teach them right from wrong and lead them out of crime and gangs and stuff like that.
Steven Seagal
#60. All we can do is adapt the way we view this condition, not as a crime or a romantic affectation but as a disease that will kill. We need to review the way society treats addicts, not as criminals but as sick people in need of care.
Russell Brand
#61. The blood of criminals fertilises the soil of liberty.
Joseph Fouche
#62. -We're criminals, Farley. We believe in money-and survival.
Victoria Aveyard
#63. One of the hardest questions I have been asked is 'How will you manage the army if you are having menstrual cramps?' I have also been asked if I will have the courage to face criminals. My answer is that courage is not a matter of gender.
Josefina Vazquez Mota
#64. Criminal activity does have its appeal. Otherwise there wouldn't be so many criminals.
J.D. Robb
#65. That is why our masters in Washington are so anxious to disarm us. They are not afraid of criminals. They are afraid of a populace which cannot be subdued by tyrants.
Jeff Cooper
#66. Only when architect, bricklayer and tenant are a unity, or one and the same person, can we speak of architecture. Everything else is not architecture, but a criminal act which has taken on form.
Friedensreich Hundertwasser
#67. The chief problem in any community cursed with crime is not the punishment of the criminals, but the preventing of the young from being trained to crime.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#68. When Prohibition was first enacted in 1920, most people stockpiled alcohol, thinking they'd have enough to last them for years. By 1923, that was starting to run out, so your average person started to rely more and more on criminals.
Terence Winter
#69. The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.
Ayn Rand
#70. It would repel me less to be a hangman than a soldier, because the one is obliged to put to death only criminals sentenced by the law, but the other kills honest men who like himself bathe in innocent blood at the bidding of some superior.
George Santayana
#71. Parents are the mystified criminals, blinking in the docks, making it all the worse for themselves with every word they utter.
Michael Cunningham
#72. Creative people like to think in unconventional ways, dislike rules, are easily bored, are independent, like to experiment, and enjoy being their own bosses. Basically the same traits found in most criminals and sociopaths
Duncan Long
#73. Bel dames spent most of their time running after criminals in dingy, unfiltered cities, making enemies with other bel dames whose notes they stole, girlfriends they fucked, and sons they killed.
Kameron Hurley
#74. If the instigation for jihad [holy war] against the Jews and the Americans ... is considered a crime, then let history be a witness that I am a criminal.
Osama Bin Laden
#75. If you're a drug addict, then you've always got drugs, so you're a criminal. So you're gonna get into problems.
Russell Brand
#76. You totally just outed us to the criminals.
-Ty to Zane
Abigail Roux
#78. Most people lived their lives like criminals: act first, worry about the consequences later.
Nicholas Sparks
#79. It was not hard to believe a beautiful woman capable of murder, Margret thought.As it says in the sagas, Opt er flago i fogru skinni. A witch often has fair skin.
Hannah Kent
#80. Batman: You can't build a better world by killing criminals--it bankrupts your soul and society's by reinforcing the same cycle of violence.
Peter J. Tomasi
#81. I live in Miami, which can be a dangerous place, with a segment of the population capable of horrific acts of violence. And those are the police. The criminals are even worse.
Dave Barry
#82. The biggest criminals that I have met in life are working for the government. They make mass murderers look like amateurs.
Steven Magee
#83. What is considered sinful in one of the great religions to which citizens belong isn't necessarily sinful in the others. Criminal law therefore cannot be based on the notion of sin; it is crimes that it must define.
Pierre Trudeau
#84. If some beggar steals a bridle he'll be hung by a man who's stolen a horse.
Peire Cardenal
#85. In seeking to severely penalize criminals society by putting the criminals away behind safe walls actually provide them with the means of greater strength for future atrocities glorious and otherwise.
Jack Kerouac
#86. Though a non-co-operator, I shall gladly subscribe to a bill to make it criminal for anybody to call me mahatma and to touch my feet.
Mahatma Gandhi
#87. An incorrect theory, even if it cannot be inhibited by any contradiction that would refute it, is none the less incorrect, just as a criminal policy is none the less criminal even if it cannot be inhibited by any court that would curb it.
L. E. J. Brouwer
#88. You guys put them all on a boat and sent them over here to North America a couple of hundred years ago." "The English maybe would do such a thing. Is what they did with the criminals, so maybe they would send you the smelly cats. But no the Italians. We would no be so cruel.
Lynsay Sands
#89. Thru the auspices of the viewers who become - I think this is an import - in a democracy, become a working unit with law enforcement against the criminals.
Robert Stack
#90. There are criminals everywhere these days, you know. One might end up missing the police! Who would have thought that possible?
The Maid
The Informer by Steen Langtrup
Steen Langstrup
#91. There was a look of woe on his face that was almost comical. Raids, bullets, criminals ... no problem. A missing duster? Crisis.
Richelle Mead
#92. Mass media over-represents persons of color in negative ways, especially as criminals, relative to the share of crime actually done by such persons.
Tim Wise
#93. Do not be naive. Criminals cannot go unpunished. Nor can heroes.
Devin Grayson
#94. One who has a deaden conscience can never live within the confinements of the law.
Drexel Deal
#95. From a single crime know the nation.
Virgil
#96. I rank myself no higher in the scheme of things than a policeman - whose utility would disappear if there were no criminals.
Lord Salisbury
#97. What was my great sin? To have revealed the private property of the bank - well if this is being a criminal, then maybe I'm a great criminal.
Jose Mujica
#98. An artist must approach his work in the spirit of the criminal about to commit a crime.
Edgar Degas
#99. Criminals interest me, because they're driven by the same desires as we are, but they take these disastrous shortcuts and end up in a real mess.
Colin Wilson
#100. Criminals in a hurry are always the easiest to trace, Lundstr
Henning Mankell
