(429 quotes found)
“The more laws that are written, the more criminals are produced.”
Lao-Tse
“The subject of criminal rehabilitation was debated recently in City Hall. It's an appropriate place for this kind of discussion because the city has always employed so many ex-cons and future cons.”
Mike Royko
“Publishers are notoriously slothful about numbers, unless they're attached to dollar signs -- unlike journalists, quarterbacks, and felony criminal defendants who tend to be keenly aware of numbers at all times.”
Hunter S. Thompson
“It is criminal to put our servicemen and women in harm's way and to put the lives of so many civilians on the line for the misguided frustrations of the Bush administration.”
Dave Matthews
“A person's mere propinquity to others independently suspected of criminal activity does not give rise to probable cause to search that person.”
Potter Stewart
“Everyone has favorite criminals. Mine are pimps. We can all rob a bank; we can all sell drugs. Being a pimp is a whole other thing.”
Chris Rock
“In fact, they recapitulate the story of Christianity word for word, like the inevitable course of some unsightly disease: criminal ignorance, brutish stupidity, self-righteous bigotry, paranoid fear of outsiders. For the cultist, psychiatrists, the media, Government agencies have become Satan incarnate. Like the fundamental Christians, they have to be right.”
William S. Burroughs
“Criminal prosecution and penalties provide deterrence in a way that civil judgments cannot,”
Bob Kruger
“A lot of these people who are there are criminals, and we need to get them out of our house,”
Cindy Sheehan
“An acquaintance of my husband with a long criminal record and a record of mental illness walked into a pawnshop, ... It took him about five minutes to purchase a shotgun. He handed it to Kurt on April 6, and on April 7 he was found dead. That's how easy it is.”
Courtney Love
