criminal quotes

Even an attorney of modest talent can postpone doomsday year after year, for the system of appeals that pervades American jurisprudence amounts to a legalistic wheel of fortune, a game ofchance, somewhat fixed in the favor of the criminal, that the participants play interminably.

-Truman Capote
  In Cold Blood, ch.4.

Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.

- Elizabeth Fry
Quoted in Rachel E Cresswell and Katharine Fry Memoir of the Life of Elizabeth Fry (1848).

I work for a government I despise for ends I think criminal.

-John Maynard, 1st Baron Keynes (of Tilton)
  Letter to Duncan Grant,15 Dec.

The Emperor Claudius Used to keep a baudius. When he got more criminal He ran a den on theViminal.

- Robert Paton Longden
  Quoted and first published in  Arnold Silcock, Verse and Worse (1952),'Potted Biography'.

Crime is a socio-political artifact, not a natural phenomenon.We can have as much or as little crime as we please, depending on what we choose to count as criminal.

- Herbert Leslie Packer
  The Limits of Criminal Sanction, p.364.

The criminal law is no use to decent people.

- George Bernard Shaw
  Sir Patrick.The Doctor's Dilemma, act 3.

'I call it a criminal thing in any one's great-great- grandfather to rear up a preposterous troop of sons and plant them all out in his own country', Lady Knox said to me with apparent irrelevance.'I detest collaterals. Blood may be thicker than water, but it is also a great deal nastier.'

-Martin Ross
  Some Experiences of an Irish R.M.,'Philippa's Fox-Hunt'.