Committing Crimes Quotes

• Laws that forbid the carrying of arms . . . disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes . . . Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.

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  Thomas Jefferson

  Men   Gun   Law  

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• If you come across illegal aliens committing crimes, other crimes, you deport them.

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  Joe Arpaio

  Aliens   Crime   Illegal  

  "Al Punto" with Jorge Ramos, www.univision.com. January 28, 2016.

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• Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.

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  George Bernard Shaw

  Men   Hands   Law  

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “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”, p.308, e-artnow

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• It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.

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  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  White   Derivatives   Crime  

  Martin Luther King, Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1989). “The trumpet of conscience”, HarperCollins

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• Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.

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  H. G. Wells

  Community   Criminals   Literature  

  Margaret Sanger, Michael W. Perry, H. G. Wells (2003). “The Pivot of Civilization in Historical Perspective: The Birth Control Classic”, p.54, Inkling Books

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• Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.

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  Jean Genet

  Real   Men   People  

  Jean Genet, Roger Blin (1969). “Letters to Roger Blin: reflections on the theater”

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• Laws that forbid the carrying of arms disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes.

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  Thomas Jefferson

  Gun   Law   Strong Arms  

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• Temptation said that we all dream of committing crimes, but that only the unbalanced make that macabre idea a reality.

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  Paulo Coelho

  Dream   Reality   Ideas  

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• The planet does nothing but support us, and we are constantly committing crimes against nature

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  Daphne Zuniga

  Nature   Support   Doe  

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• What matters is the way we Americans think about ourselves. We think about ourselves as incapable of committing crimes. Everything we do, we make a lot of errors, you know, you can't help it. Mistakes all over the place, but out of naïveté or, you know, misplaced kindness or something like that.

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  Noam Chomsky

  Kindness   Mistake   Thinking  

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• For a punishment to be just it should consist of only such gradations of intensity as suffice to deter men from committing crimes.

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  Cesare Beccaria

  Men   Crime   Intensity  

  Cesare Beccaria (1963). “On Crimes and Punishments”, Pearson College Division

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• You know what an effective deterrent to crime is? Jail! And do you know what kind of criminal penalty actually makes people think twice about committing crimes the next time? The kind that actually comes out of some individual's pocket, not fines that come out of the corporate kitty.

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  Matt Taibbi

  Thinking   Jail   People  

  "Justice Department's New Get-Tough Policy Is, Well, Not". Article by Matt Taibbi, www.rollingstone.com. February 20, 2013.

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• Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass.

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  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Glasses   Criminals   Earth  

  Essays "Compensation" (1841)

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• The laws that forbid the carrying of arms...disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. Can it be supposed that those who have the courage to violate the most sacred laws of humanity...will respect the less important and arbitrary ones... Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants, they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.

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  Cesare Beccaria

  Men   Gun   Law  

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• My father died early. My mother died early. I started hanging with the gangs. I'm on the streets; I'm committing crimes. And the music came along, and this music just took me on a different road.

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  Ice T

  Mother   Father   Different  

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• People have suffered and become insane for centuries by the thought of eternal punishment after death. Wouldn't it be better to depend on blind matter... than a god who puts out traps for people, invites them to sin, and allows them to sin and commit crimes he could prevent. Only to finally get the barbarian pleasure to punish them in an excessive way, of no use for himself, without them changing their ways and without their example preventing others from committing crimes.

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  Baron d'Holbach

  Death   Punishment   People  

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• There's a very complex connection between crime and addiction, because a lot of people are committing crime to either fuel their drug habit, which they're going to do anyway, whether it's legal or not, or under the influence of drugs, which they're going to do more, if it's legal.

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  Kevin Sabet

  People   Addiction   Drug  

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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