Quotes about criminals
Frank Herbert - God Emperor of Dune
Police are inevitably corrupted. ... Police always observe that criminals prosper. It takes a pretty dull policeman to miss the fact that the position of authority is the most prosperous criminal position available.
Emily Lloyd-Jones - Illusive
She’s a lunatic,” says Conrad.“Absolutely insane,” says Guntram.“Either completely fearless or utterly stupid,” says Conrad.“She’s going to fit right in,” says Guntram.
Nawal El Saadawi -
War criminals in the U.S. and Israel are not punished: no international court has the courage to put them on trial.
Steven Magee -
The biggest criminals that I have met in life are working for the government. They make mass murderers look like amateurs.
Anna C. Salter - And Other Sex Offenders
In all the interviews I have done, I cannot remember one offender who did not admit privately to more victims than those for whom he had been caught. On the contrary, most offenders had been charged with and/or convicted of from one to three victims. In the interviews I have done, they have admitted to roughly 10 to 1,250 victims. What was truly frightening was that all the offenders had been reported before by children, and the reports had been ignored.
Former LAPD Detective Mark Fuhrman - on Hannity & Colmes
I dealt with people like this for 20 years. They will get up every day. They will kill somebody and go have some chicken at KFC. You will catch them eating chicken and drinking a beer after they just murdered three people. Sean, these people are out there. They're all over the place.
M.F. Moonzajer -
Justice fails because victims used to be too kind and criminals too clever.
Norman Mailer - Deaths For The Ladies
rip the prisonsopenput theconvictsontelevision
Colson Whitehead - The Underground Railroad
The other patrollers were boys and men of bad character; the work attracted a type. In another country they would have been criminals, but this was America.
Samantha Leahy -
There's a fine line between career criminals and career professionals because most of us fall somewhere in between.
Robert A. Heinlein - The Cat Who Walks Through Walls
How is a sincere criminal, trying hard, going to get ahead in his profession if his victim fails to cooperate?
Arthur Conan Doyle - A Study in Scarlet
There are no crimes and no criminals in these days. What is the use of having brains in our profession? I know well that I have it in me to make my name famous. No man lives or has ever lived who has brought the same amount of study and of natural talent to the detection of crime which I have done. And what is the result? There is no crime to detect, or, at most, some bungling villainy with a motive so transparent that even a Scotland Yard official can see through it.
Arthur Conan Doyle - The Return of Sherlock Holmes
I do not know whether it came from his own innate depravity or from the promptings of his master, but he was rude enough to set a dog at me. Neither dog nor man liked the look of my stick, however, and the matter fell through. Relations were strained after that, and further inquiries out of the question.
Arthur Conan Doyle - The Bruce-Partington Plans
It is fortunate for this community that I am not a criminal.
Natascha Kampusch - 096 Days
Our society needs criminals like Wolfgang Priklopil in order to give a face to the evil that lives within and to split it off from ... It needs the images of cellar dungeons so as not to have to see the many homes in which violence rears its conformist, bourgeois head. Society uses the victims of sensational cases such as mine in order to divest itself of the responsibility for the many nameless victims of daily crimes, victims nobody helps – even when they ask for help.
Michelle Tea - Black Wave
Michelle had great admiration for criminals and crime, though only from a distance.
Tom Robbins - Another Roadside Attraction
Whether a man is a criminal or a public servant is purely a matter of perspective.
Leslea Wahl - The Perfect Blindside
Great. Relationship advice from one of America's most wanted.
NisiOisiN -
As the greatest of detectives makes the greatest of criminals, a specialist in investigation is also a specialist in murder.
Christina Engela - Loderunner
You can pass any law you like to make 'criminals' of those you don't like and then justify it with whatever stupid reasoning that appeals to you. Is that rule of law - or tyranny?
Drexel Deal - The Fight of My Life is Wrapped Up in My Father
One who has a deaden conscience can never live within the confinements of the law.
Paula Marantz Cohen - What Alice Knew: A Most Curious Tale of Henry James & Jack the Ripper
It is in our nature to enjoy atrocity so long as it continues to shock and remains comfortably removed from our own lives.
Graeme Galton - Forensic Aspects of Dissociative Identity Disorder
In cases of organized and multi-perpetrator abuse when the abuse occurs in the context of rituals and ceremonies, some elements of the experience may have been staged specifically with the intention of encouraging the disbelief of others if the victim were to report the crime. For example, someone reporting such a crime may mention that the devil was present, or that someone well-known was there, or that acts of magic were performed. These were tricks and deceptions by the abusers-often experien
Russell Baker -
A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia getting together to bump off the Godfather for not going to church on Sunday.
M.F. Moonzajer -
The problem with our sense of justice is we always seemed to be kind to beautiful and attractive criminals.
Stefan Molyneux -
The ones who are insane enough to think that they can rule the world are always the ones who do.
Drexel Deal - The Fight of My Life is Wrapped Up in My Father
Life is so fragile and unpredictable, especially when you are in a gang or in a life of crime. It’s like playing poker; you think to yourself that you have a good hand. However, it is only when you reveal your hand do you sometimes discover to your horror that someone else’s hand is better.
Michael Salter - Organised Sexual Abuse
Chapter 4,‘Organised abuse and the pleasures of disbelief’, uses Zizek’s (1991) insights into cite political role of enjoyment to analyse the hyperbole and scorn that has characterised the sceptical account of organised and ritualistic abuse. The central argument of this chapter is that organised abuse has come to public attention primarily as a subject of ridicule within the highly partisan writings of journalists, academics and activists aligned with advocacy groups for people accused of sexua
David King - Death in the City of Light: The Serial Killer of Nazi-Occupied Paris
Wives of criminals, Massau later reflected, were indeed an interesting lot. There are those who, real panthers in madness, defend their men with claws out; there are the cold and insensitive ones, who wrestling step by step, discuss each argument and answer your questions with other questions; there are the stubborn ones who can pass the entire night in total silence against the light of the interrogation; there are still others, who, shaken and in distress, discover as you do that they have liv
Ta-Nehisi Coates - Two Sons and an Unlikely Road to Manhood
Mostly they all were products of single parents, and in the most tragic category - black boys, with no particular criminal inclinations but whose very lack of direction put them in the crosshairs of the world.
Michael Caine -
...some men aren't looking for anything logical, like money. They can't be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn.
Jess C. Scott - Soulmates
The laws governed people’s happiness. To be lawless was to be happy.
Arthur Conan Doyle - Vol 2
My mind is like a racing engine, tearing itself to pieces because it is not connected up with the work for which it was built. Life is commonplace; the papers are sterile; audacity and romance seem to have passed forever from the criminal world. Can you ask me, then, whether I am ready to look into any new problem, however trivial it may prove?
Howard Tayler - Emperor Pius Dei
This document outlines our plan to perpetrate insurance fraud, insider trading, and character assassination....hopefully tripling our paycheck on this job.Okay, see? Those words I understand just fine. Use them more often.-Lieutenant Massey Reynstein & Captain Tagon
Munia Khan -
Every criminal has a good mind conquered by the devil
Erik Pevernagie -
Since we live in a world of appearances, people are judged by what they seem to be. If the mind can't read the predictable features, it reacts with alarm or aversion. Faces which don’t fit in the picture are socially banned. An ugly countenance, a hideous outlook can be considered as a crime and criminals must be inexorably discarded from society. ( "Ugly mug offense" )
Dan Garfat-Pratt - Citations: A Brief Anthology
My head is a prison I’ve been locked in from the start,So if I'm treated like a criminal I might as well play the part.(attrib: E. Tancarville)
Shannon L. Alder -
And when they dusted my mind for your fingerprints they found yours.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana - The Use and Misuse of Children
There is nothing morally wrong with buying stolen goods, unless you know that they were stolen.
Neil Gaiman - American Gods
There was only one guy in the whole Bible Jesus ever personally promised a place with him in Paradise. Not Peter, not Paul, not any of those guys. He was a convicted thief, being executed. So don't knock the guys on death row. Maybe they know something you don't.
Anthony T. Hincks -
When something is dirty you wash it. That's what my mum always said.Yet...When you have dirty money and you launder it, people jump up and down.I guess that's life.
Deyth Banger -
Sometimes criminals work and for cops and criminals have favourite cops... (Person of Interest)
Daniel Suarez - Change Agent
When privacy is criminalized, only criminals will have privacy.
Dane Whalen -
The 'thin blue line' is nothing more than the no snitching policy found in any other criminal gang.
Steven Magee -
Some of the most corrupt people that you will meet in life are working in corporate government law enforcement. They make criminals look like amateurs.
Friedrich Nietzsche - All Too Human
Our crime against criminals lies in the fact that we treat them like rascals.
Catherine Gould -
Not only do skeptics such as Lanning choose to ignore eyewitness/victim accounts of ritual criminal activity, they apparently also choose to overlook the significant number of cases of ritual abuse in which perpetrators have confessed to their crimes. In the Bottoms et al. (1991; 1993) study of 2,292 cases of ritual abuse, perpetrators in 30% of the child cases confessed to abusing one or more children, and perpetrators in 15% of adult cases confessed to perpetrating as well. In the case studied
Catherine Gould -
It has become fashionable in the last several years for the media to minimize and even dissemble about the data which so strongly support the existence of ritual abuse. Amazingly, this has happened even in relation to ritual abuse cases in which criminal convictions have been obtained. Parenting magazine (Ruben, 1994), for example, asserted that “far more cases (of ritual abuse) end in acquittal” than in conviction.In fact, 58% of the ritual abuse cases in the Finkeihor (1988) study that went to
Anna C. Salter - And Other Sex Offenders
Once, in a three-day taping that included several sadists, the material was so overwhelming that both the film crew and I got sick - I with a sinus infection, and the entire film crew with a flu so severe they had to delay their departure from the motel. Our immune systems had weakened, I believe, from the beating out souls had taken.
Michael Connelly - The Poet
There is a means to every end. A root to any cause. Sometimes the root is more evil than any cause, though it's the cause that is usually most vilified.
Nick Harkaway - The Gone-Away World
Law is error, you see. It's an attempt to write down a lot of things everyone ought to know anyway.