Ignorance, when it is voluntary, is criminal.
The punishment of a criminal is an example to the rabble; but every decent man is concerned if an innocent person is condemned.
One of greatest thieves this world has is procrastination, and he is still at large. Are we aiding and abetting the criminal?
It is the duty of the Judge in criminal trials to take care that the verdict of the jury is not founded upon any evidence except that which the law allows.
What most needs explanation is not why some people are criminals, but why most people are not.
From the standpoint of any sane person, the present problem of capitalist concentration is not only a question of law, but of criminal law, not to mention criminal lunacy.
I notice that when people have no sense of responsibility, you call them either criminals or geniuses.
If you get into crime you gotta know that everybody's a criminal and everybody's a liar, and everybody has the potential to backstab you, because it's not an honest profession. So don't go into crime and look for honesty.
The bourgeois today burns as heretics and hangs as criminals those to whom he erects monuments tomorrow.
The internal and international criminal gang will either be forced to work or simply exterminated.
Which is not really a hell of a lot to ask, Lord, because the final incredible truth is that I am not guilty. All I did was take your gibberish seriously. . . and you see where it got me? My primitive Christian instincts have made me a criminal.
It's almost impossible to separate the actions, or it's also, it's almost impossible to separate the oppression and exploitation, criminal oppression and criminal exploitation of the American negro from the color of the skin of the person who is the oppressor or the exploiter.
I've never been accused of a felony. I never spent time behind bars except for a few overnight jail times back in the Sixties. [But] I think there's a little bit of a criminal in all of us. Everybody's done something they don't want anybody to know about.
Just imagine if I would have come back to Germany with a victory. I had nothing to do with the Nazis, but they would have given me a medal. After the war I might have been considered a war criminal.
I've always liked the minds of criminals, they seem similar to artists.
Evading responsibility can lead to a life long pattern of criminal behavior.
When were we the most egalitarian country in the world? When we had the GlassSteagal Act, which prevented the banks from becoming the criminal operations that they've become.
War crimes will be prosecuted. War criminals will be punished. And it will be no defense to say, 'I was just following orders. '
Decades of progress made in bringing down crime are now being reversed by this [Barack Obama] administration's rollback of criminal enforcement.
I am sure from my experience of juries that, in a criminal case especially, they will obey the law as declared by the Judge; they will take the law from the Judge, whether they like it or do not like it, and apply it honestly to the facts before them.