Quotes with criminal

  • The dreamer whose dreams are non-utilitarian has no place in this world. In this world the poet is anathema, the thinker a fool, the artist an escapist, the man of vision a criminal.
  • I have been a political activist most of my life and many groups have attempted to label me as a criminal because of my outspoken beliefs. I am not a criminal and I have never been one.
  • Concerning non-violence: it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks.
  • Not a season passes without new disclosures showing Nixon's numerous attempts at criminal use of his presidential powers and in fact the scorn he held for the rule of law.
  • The issue is privacy. Why is the decision by a woman to sleep with a man she has just met in a bar a private one, and the decision to sleep with the same man for $100 subject to criminal penalties?
  • A judge who cannot punish, in the end associates themselves with the criminal.
  • Inventing sources is not a crime in and of itself, although it certainly violates every code of journalistic ethics known to man. A criminal fraud case would require that the reporter's deceit had been malicious and resulted in financial gain.
  • Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.
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  • Bertrand Russell Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe A judge who cannot punish, in the end associates themselves with the criminal.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung A criminal becomes a popular figure because he unburdens in no small degree the consciences of his fellow man, for now they know once more where evil is to be found.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Brendan I. Koerner A duped newspaper or magazine could contend that a fiction-spouting journalist obtained part of his salary via fraud, and use a criminal proceeding to try and recoup that money. Given the profession's notoriously low wages, however, it's probably not worth the publicity headache and legal fees. No news organization has ever pursued such a case.
    Brendan I. Koerner
    American author (1974 - )
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  • Bill McCollum A trial without witnesses, when it involves a criminal accusation, a criminal matter, is not a true trial.
    Bill McCollum
    American lawyer and politician (1944 - )
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  • Shirley Lord Animals are considered as property only. To destroy or to abuse them, from malice to the proprietor, or with an intention injurious to his interest in them, is criminal. But the animals themselves are without protection. The law regards them not substantively. They have no RIGHTS!
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  • Bret Easton Ellis Are you as much of a criminal if you don't act when there's a crime taking place in front of you as you are one of the participants? That was something that I was thinking about a lot because there are many moments in 'Less Than Zero' where horrific things happen and Clay could do something about them, but his passivity stops him.
    Bret Easton Ellis
    American author, screenwriter, short-story writer, and director (1964 - )
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  • Malcolm X Concerning non-violence: it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks.
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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  • Brent Sexton Depending on the show, I've played a cop, a criminal, or a victim. So there's a range.
    Brent Sexton
    American actor (1967 - )
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  • Truman Capote Even an attorney of moderate talent can postpone doomsday year after year, for the system of appeals that pervades American jurisprudence amounts to a legalistic wheel of fortune, a game of chance, somewhat fixed in the favor of the criminal, that the participants play interminably.
    Truman Capote
    American writer (1924 - 1984)
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  • John F. Kennedy Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is also true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Albert Bushnell Hart 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.
    Albert Bushnell Hart
    American historian, writer, and editor (1854 - 1943)
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  • Charlotte Brontë I can so clearly distinguish between the criminal and his crime; I can so sincerely forgive the first while I abhor the last.
    Jane Eyre (1847) ch. 6
    Charlotte Brontë
    British Novelist (1816 - 1855)
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  • Assata Shakur I have been a political activist most of my life and many groups have attempted to label me as a criminal because of my outspoken beliefs. I am not a criminal and I have never been one.
    Assata Shakur
    American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) (1947 - )
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  • Mark Twain I know all those people. I have friendly, social, and criminal relations with the whole lot of them.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Belle Boyd 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
    American Confederate spy (1844 - 1900)
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  • Bernie Sanders In 1999, Hoffmann-LaRoche paid a $500 million criminal fine for leading a worldwide conspiracy to fix prices for certain vitamins.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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  • Barney Frank In a free society a large degree of human activity is none of the government's business. We should make criminal what's going to hurt other people and other than that we should leave it to people to make their own choices.
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Bob Ney In addition, the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act provides protection for those in the firearms industry from lawsuits arising out of the criminal or unlawful acts of people who misuse their products.
    Bob Ney
    American politician (1954 - )
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  • Nigel Farage In Britain, what we've done is say to 485 million people, 'You can all come, every one of you. You're unemployed? You've got a criminal record? Please come. You've got 19 children? Please come.' We've lost any sense of perspective on this.
    Nigel Farage
    British politician, activist, political commentator and broadcaster (1964 - )
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