Quotes about Criminals

75 quotes about Criminals

We are guilty of many errors and many faults but our worst crime is abandoning the children, neglecting the fountain of life. Many of the things we need can wait. The child cannot. Right now is the time his bones are being formed, his blood is...

Quote by Gabriela Mistral about criminals

Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes

Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes

Quote by Confucius about criminals

The only serious crime I have ever committed in free...

The only serious crime I have ever committed in free society was bank robbery during the time I was a fugitive.

Quote by Jack Henry Abbott about criminals

Head Start graduates are more likely to graduate from high school and less likely to need special education, repeat a grade, or commit crimes in adolescence.

Quote by Joe Baca about criminals

The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of...

The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea.

Quote by John Adams about criminals

Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.

Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.

Quote by Honoré de Balzac about criminals

Behind every great fortune there is a crime.

Behind every great fortune there is a crime.

Quote by Honoré de Balzac about criminals

The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.

The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.

Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte about criminals

There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike...

There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.

Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte about criminals

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is...

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

Quote by Ray Bradbury about criminals

Any government that supports, protects or harbours...

Any government that supports, protects or harbours terrorists is complicit in the murder of the innocent and equally guilty of terrorist crimes.

Quote by George W. Bush about criminals

More of the interesting roles I've had have been villains.

More of the interesting roles I've had have been villains.

Quote by Armand Assante about criminals

I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes as...

I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inhuman humanity make villains.

Quote by George Gordon Byron about criminals

I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, had not Cervantes, in that all too true tale of Quixote, shown how all such efforts fail.

Quote by George Gordon Byron about criminals

For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of...

Quote by Albert Camus about criminals

Poverty is the mother of crime.

Poverty is the mother of crime.

Quote by Marcus Aurelius about criminals

Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions.

Quote by Agatha Christie about criminals

There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.

Quote by Bette Davis about criminals

Too much mercy... often resulted in further crimes which were fatal to innocent victims who need not have been victims if justice had been put first and mercy second.

Quote by Agatha Christie about criminals

As a rule, said Holmes, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify.

Quote by Arthur Conan Doyle about criminals

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