“I believe it is wrong to undermine public safety, and indeed public confidence in the concept of human rights, by allowing highly dangerous criminals and terrorists to trump the rights of the people of Britain to live in security and peace.” PeopleBelieveHumansI BelieveRightsSecurityDangerousTrumpConceptsSafetyHuman RightsCriminalsTerroristBritainAllowingPublic Safety Author:David Cameron
“Whenever you're going after something that belongs to you, anyone who's depriving you of the right to have it is a criminal. Understand that. Whenever you are going after something that is yours, you are within your legal rights to lay claim to it. And anyone who puts forth any effort to deprive you of that which is yours, is breaking the law, is a criminal.” LawEffortRightsClaimsLaysCriminalsDeprivingBreaking The LawLegal Rights Author:Malcolm X
“How pitiable is it to reflect, that although you were so fully convinced of the benevolence of the Father of Mankind, and of his equal and impartial distribution of these rights and privileges, which he hath conferred upon them, that you should at the same time counteract his mercies, in detaining by fraud and violence so numerous a part of my brethren, under groaning captivity and cruel oppression, that you should at the same time be found guilty of that most criminal act, which you professedly detested in others, with respect to yourselves” ShouldFoundFatherRightsViolenceMankindEqualMercyPrivilegeConvincedCriminalsOppressionGuiltyFraudDistributionBenevolenceBrethrenCaptivityGroaningRights And PrivilegesDetaining Author:Benjamin Banneker
“Today, the people who would use guns to violate rights have little trouble getting them, while those who would use them to defend their rights have increasing trouble getting them. ... Gun control is in effect a subsidy for criminals.” PeopleLittlesUseTodayRightsTroubleEffectsGunCriminalsGun ControlSubsidies Author:Sheldon Richman
“There are people who are always going to try to engage in activity that is illegal and they're going to try to subvert surveillance. But everybody should not give up their liberties and rights to privacy because some people are going to [do that]. We shouldn't stop or limit our basic liberties because some people are going to engage in criminal activities.” PeopleGivingShouldTryingLibertyRightsActivityLimitsGiving UpCriminalsPrivacyIllegalNot Giving UpSurveillance Author:Laura Poitras
“[T]he crucial question is not, as so many believe, whether property rights should be private or governmental, but rather whether the necessarily 'private' owners are legitimate owners or criminals. For ultimately, there is no entity called 'government'; there are only people forming themselves into groups called 'governments' and acting in a 'governmental' manner. All property is therefore always 'private'; the only and critical question is whether it should reside in the hands of criminals or of the proper and legitimate owners.” PeopleShouldBelieveHandsGovernmentActingRightsGroupsPropertyCriticalCriminalsOwnersCrucialEntityProperty Rights Author:Murray Rothbard
“If were going to change the laws, lets change them in ways which makes it easier to catch criminals, and yet at the same time protect the Second Amendment rights of our law-abiding citizens.” IfsWayLawRightsCitizensEasierProtectCriminalsAmendmentsAbidingSecond AmendmentLaw Abiding Citizen Author:John Dingell
“The United States has held out against taking part in any of the world consensus that there should be a court of human rights or that there should be an international court of criminal justice.” WorldShouldHumansStatesJusticeUnitedUnited StatesRightsCourtInternationalHuman RightsCriminalsConsensusCriminal Justice Author:Roger Waters
“The government has created a nation of paper criminals. People can be put in jail and lose civil rights and liberties through bureaucratic procedures.The only thing that is keeping you out of jail is government goodwill.” PeopleGovernmentNationsLosesLibertyRightsPaperCriminalsCivil RightsJailProceduresGoodwill Author:Ayn Rand
“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.” RealHandsOpportunityCausesCommunityResponsibilityPovertyRightsShareCrimeIgnoranceEqualDegreesIncreaseResponsibleGuiltPropertyCommittedSpreadCriminalsInterfereEqual RightsDiscontentDecreaseEqual Opportunity Author:Rutherford B. Hayes
“If someone can produce the law that keeps guns out of the hands of criminals but protects the right of law-abiding citizens to possess them, and doesn't infringe on those rights, I would consider that. But all the proposals I've seen do not achieve that goal. And we are missing a golden opportunity to have an important debate about violence in the USA. Violence in our society is the problem.” IfsImportantProblemHandsLawOpportunityGoalRightsViolenceAchieveMissingProduceCitizensProtectGunCriminalsDebateGoldenUsaOur SocietyProposalAbidingLaw Abiding CitizenGolden Opportunity Author:Marco Rubio
“When I went off to the army when I was 17 years old, I believed in America and the rights of freedom. But today I believe my government is lying to the American people and that my president, George Bush, is a criminal.” PeopleYearsBelieveGovernmentTodayAmericaLyingI BelievePresidentRightsArmyCriminals Author:Jack Herer
“No system of criminal justice can, or should, survive if it comes to depend for its continued effectiveness on the citizens' abdication through unawareness of their constitutional rights. No system worth preserving should have to fear that if an accused is permitted to consult with a lawyer, he will become aware of, and exercise, these rights.” IfsShouldJusticeRightsDependsCitizensExerciseShould HaveCriminalsLawyerAccusedEffectivenessCriminal JusticeConstitutional RightsUnawarenessAbdication Author:Arthur Goldberg
“A civilization without insanity, without criminals and without war, where the able can prosper and honest beings can have rights, and where man is free to rise to greater heights, are the aims of Scientology.” MenWarAbleGreaterRightsHonestCivilizationAimCriminalsInsanityHeightScientologyGreater Heights Author:L. Ron Hubbard
“Americans cannot comprehend how their fellow countrymen could not love their country. But the left's anti-Americanism is intrinsic to their entire worldview. Liberals promote the right of Islamic fanatics for the same reason they promote the rights of adulterers, pornographers, abortionists, criminals, and Communists. They instinctively root for anarchy against civilization. The inevitable logic of the liberal position is to be for treason.” CountryReasonLeftRightsPositionCivilizationRootsLogicFellowsCriminalsInevitableIslamicCommunistAnarchyFanaticsWorldviewTreasonCountrymenAmericanism Author:Ann Coulter