Quotes About Insanity Defense

#1. It was declared by Congress that marijuana makes people insane. But ... lawyers, defense lawyers, got the idea, OK, I can use this for an insanity defense.

Noam Chomsky

#2. One of the most corrosive aspects of the criminal justice system is its toleration of the insanity defense...Legitimate in some few cases, the insanity defense has been rendered farcical through its manipulation by so-called experts.

Robert K. Tanenbaum

#3. And the council doesn't recognize any kind of temporary insanity defense. Which was a real shame, because most of the councilmen had considered me crazy for most of my life.

Rachel Vincent

#4. [Jurors who are opposed to capital punishment are] more likely to believe that a defendant's failure to testify is indicative of his guilt, more hostile to the insanity defense, more mistrustful of defense attorneys and less concerned about the danger of erroneous convictions.

Thurgood Marshall

#5. Should he plead the insanity defense or the alien-told-me-to-do-it defense?

Wesley Chu

#6. Yeah, well you know what they say. Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense.

Stacy Mantle

#7. Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.

William Throsby Bridges

#8. Each additional idea is a gift to the future. Each additional idea producer is a source of wealth for future generations.

Ramez Naam

#9. A thing is not high if one can reach it; it is not great if one can reason it; it is not deep if one can see its bottom.

Ayn Rand

#10. Growing up as a kid in Detroit, way back, there was a movie station that would show old kinescope reproductions of old movies, and I remember seeing Bela Lugosi for the first time and being duly frightened out of my wits.

Edward Herrmann

#11. I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.

John Adams

#12. I attributed the incidence to temporary insanity, and in my own defense, I'd like to say I haven't run over anyone since.

Janet Evanovich

#13. If you want to be a leader who attracts quality people, the key is to become a person of quality yourself.

Jim Rohn