For someone attacked by criminals to be victimized a second time by a second-guessing legal system is wrong.
I think that's why we're always so fascinated with criminal stories because there but for the grace of God it could be us.
I think that NATO is itself a war criminal.
The stupidity of gossips is that they become frightened when they see your face, and a little word from your mouth makes them vibrate like an electrocuted criminal.
And who are the greater criminals-those who sell the instruments of death, or those who buy them and use them?
The advocates of a criminal are seldom artists enough to turn the beautiful terribleness of the deed to the advantage of the doer.
The one thing prostitution is not is a 'victimless crime. ' It attracts a wide species of preying criminals and generates a long line of victims, beginning with the most obvious and least understood - the prostitute herself.
Richard Stark writes a harsh and frightening story of criminal warfare and vengeance with economy, understatement and a deadly amoral objectivity-a remarkable addition to the list of the shockers that the French call roman noirs.
I mean, imagine how some unfortunate Master Criminal would feel, on coming down to do a murder at the old Grange, if he found that not only was Sherlock Holmes putting in the weekend there, but Hercule Poirot, as well. " ~ Bertram "Bertie" Wooster
To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace
For too long, the victims of crime have been the forgotten persons of our criminal justice system.
The victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal.
The feeble-minded, the neurotic, the criminal, perhaps, also, the artist, have unpredictability and perverted innocence in common.
The free circulation of citizens, which is sacrosanct, cannot become the free circulation of criminals.
All we had ever heard about record company people is that they were vampires and criminals. . . and they killed Elvis Presley.
Being summoned by the Athenians out of Sicily to plead for his life, Alcibiades absconded, saying that that criminal was a fool who studied a defence when he might fly for it.
Oh, I'm a dangerous criminal, I am,' said the dwarf cheerfully.
I don't think I'm a criminal, number one.
Nothing should be permitted to stand in the way of the preservation of the forests, and it is criminal to permit individuals to purchase a little gain for themselves through the destruction of forests when this destruction is fatal to the well-being of the whole country in the future.
There are certain irregularities which are not the subject of criminal law. But when the criminal law happens to be auxiliary to the law of morality, I do not feel any inclination to explain it away.