C Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with C. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Crimes against children are the most heinous crime. That, for me, would be a reason for capital punishment because children are innocent and need the guidance of an adult society.”
“Crimes against humanity in Gaza: is it really a 'buffer zone' - or a bigger plan? -- It's time to step back and ask if we want to support Israel if it wants to eject all Palestinians from their land.”
“Crimes are being committed 24/7, 365 days a year. My show aired one hour a day, and then a repeat at 2 a.m. So I am launching a website, a crime-fighting website, a community. I will be writing for the website and curating content. Also, we'll have social media, Facebook Live, and a podcast. I'm really excited about it, and I believe we will help people - find missing people, solve unsolved homicides.”
“Crimes are more effectually prevented by the certainty than the severity of punishment”
“Crimes are not to be measured by the issue of events, but by the bad intentions of men.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Cicero (Illustrated)
“Crimes can be redeemed, but nothing saves you from mediocrity.”
“Crimes generally punish themselves.”
Source: The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Poetical works. Dramas. The vicar of Wakefield
“Crimes increase as education, opportunity, and property decrease. Whatever spreads ignorance, poverty and, discontent causes crime.... Criminals have their own responsibility, their own share of guilt, but they are merely the hand.... Whoever interferes with equal rights and equal opportunities is in some real degree, responsible for the crimes committed in the community.”
“Crimes lead into one another. They who are capable of being forgers, are capable of being incendiaries.”
“Crimes of Passion, which is one of the best films I've done, will live strongly in my resume, even though it didn't do well”
“Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.”
Source: Letters to Roger Blin: reflections on the theater
“Crimes sometimes shock us too much; vices almost always too little.”
“Crimes spring from fixed ideas.”
Source: The Ego and His Own: The Case of the Individual Against Authority
“Crimes were committed to punish crimes, and crimes were committed to prevent crimes. The world has been filled with prisons and dungeons, with chains and whips, with crosses and gibbets, with thumbscrews and racks, with hangmen and heads-men — and yet these frightful means and instrumentalities have committed far more crimes than they have prevented.... Ignorance, filth, and poverty are the missionaries of crime. As long as dishonorable success outranks honest effort — as long as society bows and cringes before the great thieves, there will be little ones enough to fill the jails.”
“Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards.”
“Crimes, sins, nightmares, hunks of hair: it was surprising how many of them has something to dispose of. The more I charged, the easier it was for them to breathe freely once more.”
Source: Slaves of New York
“Criminal cases receive the attention of the press. The cruel and disagreeable things of life are more apt to get the newspaper space than the pleasant ones. It must be that most people enjoy hearing of and reading about the troubles of others. Perhaps men unconsciously feel that they rise in the general level as others go down.”
Source: The Story of My Life
“Criminal court is where bad people are on their best behavior. It's much more dangerous for lawyers and judges in family court, where good people are at their worst.”
“Criminal justice is about respecting the law and being respected by the law so there is a fundamental respect issue here.”
“Criminal justice" is what happens after a complicated series of events has gone bad. It is the end result of failure--the failure of a group of people that sometimes includes, but is never limited to, the accused person.”
Source: Let's Get Free: A Hip-Hop Theory of Justice
“Criminal justice, as it pertains to the Goldmans and Morgan Stanleys of the world, is not adversarial combat, with cops and crooks duking it out in interrogation rooms and courthouses. Instead, it's a cocktail party between friends and colleagues who from month to month and year to year are constantly switching sides and trading hats.”
“Criminal law has to do with relations between the misbehaving individual and his government...Criminal law establishes rules of conduct; their breach, if prosecuted and conviction follows, results in punishment.”
“Criminal law is one of the few professions where the client buys someone else's luck. The luck of most people is strictly non-transferrable. But a good criminal lawyer can sell all his luck to a client, and the more luck he sells the more he has to sell.”
“Criminal’ pompousness will not do; ‘civil’ pompousness is acceptable.”
“Criminal trials are fundamentally about individual accountability whereas truth commissions are less about the guilt of the perpetrator and more about the suffering of the victim. A criminal trial is only incidentally a therapeutic or cathartic process for victims. But truth commissions, as we saw in South Africa, have the advantage of giving tens of thousands of people the opportunity to tell their stories, and not only does that contribute to healing but it also contributes to reconciliation, especially when perpetrators also come and express contrition.”
“Criminalising dissent is one conspicuous sign of a failed state.”
Source: Inside Harare Alcatraz and Other Short Stories
“Criminality is always the result of poverty.”
“Criminality is always the result of poverty. Countries that experience such a fundamental change as we have - we had the apartheid regime and must now develop a multicultural democracy - must necessarily pass through a phase of high crime rates.”
“Criminality is now legal. I guess criminal racketeering these days would be like burning little children at the stake or something. That's about what it takes to get anyone to care.”
“Criminality should be exterminated by disabling all notorious and irreclaimable criminals.”
“Criminalization and interdiction have filled prisons and corrupted governments in country after country. However, increasingly potent drugs that can be synthetized in any basement make controlling access increasingly impossible. Legalization seems like a good idea but causes more addiction. Our strongest defense is likely to be education, but scare stories make kids want to try drugs. Every child should learn that drugs take over the brain and turn some people into miserable zombies and that we have no way to tell who will get addicted the fastest. They should also learn that the high fades as addiction takes over.”
Source: Good Reasons for Bad Feelings: Insights from the Frontier of Evolutionary Psychiatry
“Criminals are dumb as stumps. If they were smart they could go be investment bankers. Or judges.”
Source: Black Jack Point
“Criminals are just regular people who didn’t have time to read all the laws.”
“Criminals are never very amusing. It's because they're failures. Those who make real money aren't counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem.”
“Criminals are opportunists. If you've got a booming market, they're going to get away with more fraud.”
“Criminals are using non governmental organizations as fronts for their activities. Criminals are exploiting NGOs, NPOs, foundations, and commissions to undermine the government and the people. These organizations should be banned when they violate the law, oppose the government, or act against the interests of citizens, especially when they consistently side with lawbreakers instead of serving the public good. Many of these organizations are allegedly being used as vehicles for embezzlement and money laundering.”
“Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.”
Source: George Bernard Shaw: Collected Articles, Lectures, Essays and Letters: Thoughts and Studies from the Renowned Dramaturge and Author of Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Pygmalion, Arms and The Man, Saint Joan, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion
“Criminals have means motive and opportunity – Heros do too”
“Criminals have the same aspirations as everyone else. That's why they become criminals.”
“Criminals interest me, because they're driven by the same desires as we are, but they take these disastrous shortcuts and end up in a real mess.”
“Criminals kill journalists/hostages in France, devout Muslims pay the bill all over Europe.”
“Criminals know that lone travelers are an easy target and are probably carrying a lot of cash and valuables.”
“Criminals look at identity theft and say only 1 in 700 criminals gets convicted of it. And they look at check forgery and they know that for every 1,400 forgers arrested, only about 123 get convicted and about 26 go to jail. So the rewards are great, but the risks are very slim. So that's one of the reasons that make it very popular.”
“Criminals running the governments.”
“Criminals should be punished, not fed pastries.”
“Criminals/sinners-from the Black Panthers to FBI chiefs and White House Officials-appear on the scene, make their play, and get dragged off stage, but the lawyers remain, administrating and profiting from the action and booking the next show.”
Source: Neuropolitique
“Criminals think differently from people who behave responsibly.”
Source: Inside the Criminal Mind
“Criminals thrive on society's understanding.”
“Criminals thrive on the indulgence of society’s understanding.”
“Criminals together. We're in hell, my little friend, and there's never any mistake there. People are not damned for nothing.”