Top 1200 Criminal Behavior Quotes & Sayings - Page 20
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Last updated on April 16, 2025.
Look at the whole criminal correction game, which is a big piece of our economy. It's just an invention. Crime is being invented to put people to work.
I've made it pretty clear that I can't legislate or dictate proper behavior. You can't. You do everything that you can.
In terms of behaving in a civic way, I feel my behavior is always exemplary.
More errors arise from inhibited indecision than from impulsive behavior.
Homosexual behavior has been exploited, and reveled in, and celebrated in art, for millennia.
Lack of forgiveness causes almost all of our self-sabotaging behavior.
The most important thing in changing human behavior is the person's motivation.
We are not interested in a proxy war. Our objective is to change Russia's behavior.
It's part of my life to feel like a criminal, to have eyes in my back and see if I'm being followed. It's a feeling that comes from street juggling because I have been arrested so many times.
My heart and passion has always been to reform the criminal justice system. I want to be a public servant, and I wanted to be a prosecutor because I felt it was the best way forward.
I never decided to become an art forger. I was aware of my talent at an early age, and I used it foolishly. This developed over the years. In my heart, I don't see myself as a criminal.
There's a lot of automation that can happen that isn't a replacement of humans but of mind-numbing behavior.
It seems that in Baltimore, one of the most violent cities in America, jurors are far more reluctant to convict criminal defendants than in the suburban enclaves that ring the city.
I am married to a happy camper. He's a criminal lawyer who thinks people are inherently good and will befriend him. His father, at 93, is the same way.
Like other human institutions, courts and juries are not perfect. One cannot have a system of criminal punishment without accepting the possibility that someone will be punished mistakenly.
I like analyzing human behavior. It's complex. That's what keeps me going.
Nothing is unimportant to a man plunged in despair. He is as credulous as a criminal sentenced to death who listens to a lunatic raving to him about how he can escape through the keyhole.
Crime makes for great drama and it's interesting because it delves into the darker side of us. Those kind of stories go way back, the detective and the criminal.
Criminal justice reformers prattle on about 'over-incarceration' in America when in fact our nation suffers from an under-incarceration problem.
While you are searching for a job, it is a good idea to be on your best behavior.
Evil isn't a cosmological riddle, only just selfish human behavior.
Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.
When you're the victim of the behavior, it's black and white; when you're the perpetrator, there are a million shades of gray.
It's hard to tell writers, especially in movies, that words are secondary. Behavior is important.
When we understand the needs that motivate our own and others behavior, we have no enemies.
I'm always concerned that I'm insulting the elder statesmen on the set by my crass behavior.
While not explicitly articulated in the Constitution, the presumption of innocence has, through Supreme Court opinions, become a fundamental tenet of our criminal-justice system, and rightly so.
The contradictions are what make human behavior so maddening and yet so fascinating, all at the same time.
There is no better test of a man's integrity than his behavior when he is wrong.
I was a cheap criminal; I did many, many wrongs. I admit that. Of course, if I could tell each person I'm sorry, I would.
The sillier the market's behavior, the greater the opportunity for the business like investor.
I don't always like my own behavior. I haven't known anyone who is perfect all the time.
Not one criminal charge has ever been brought to any bank executive associated with the 2008 crisis. And in fact, it gets worse. No bonuses and none of their equity was taken.
You can develop any habit or thought or behavior that you consider desirable or necessary.
Or - perhaps - I should just worry about my own behavior and let others be who they are.
Justification is the truly dramatic transition from the status of a condemned criminal awaiting a terrible sentence to that of an heir awaiting a fabulous inheritance.
As long as we continue to fight in between the jamming with all we have to save America from the current suicidal deathwish of the corrupt, criminal punks intentionally destroying the last best place.
A criminal becomes a popular figure because he unburdens in no small degree the consciences of his fellow man, for now they know once more where evil is to be found.
Deregulation created this epidemic of greed which according to the rules of capitalism was OK. Beyond that there was criminal behaviour. There have been no repercussions and it's hard to make your peace with.
On general principles, it is best that I should not leave the country. Scotland Yard feels lonely without me, and it causes an unhealthy excitement among the criminal classes.
We must work to build a criminal-legal system that is deeply rooted in a love for humanity, which begins with ending the federal death penalty in our country.
I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too.
People constantly complain to me about news coverage of criminal cases. 'What happened to the presumption of innocence?' they ask at almost every turn. Well, I'm tired of it.
Leadership is anytime you seek to influence the thinking, behavior, or development of others.
Boxing and wrestling are evidence that mankind has not rid itself of all savage behavior.
No architect is held responsible for the behavior of those who inhabit the structure he designed.
What we all want, really, is to be loved. That craving drives our worst behavior.
Far from protecting children, the abuse of Article 8 risks making them pawns - subject to coercion or worse - as part of a criminal's desperate struggle to stay in Britain.
As the Homeland faces evolving threats from natural disasters, violent opportunists, malign cyber actors, and transnational criminal organizations, the mission of DHS is as critical as ever.
I have friends in politics who really put the friendship to the test through their behavior.
Ordinarily, a person leaving a courtroom with a conviction behind him would wear a somber face. But I left with a smile. I knew that I was a convicted criminal, but I was proud of my crime.
No outward doors of a man's house can in general be broken open to execute any civil process; though in criminal cases the public safety supersedes the private.
President Trump has often crossed the line of what constitutes decent behavior.
Fully 95 percent of our behavior, feeling, and response is habitual.
Significant cuts to funding for the police, for the Crown Prosecution Service, for probation etc, have put the long-term viability of our criminal justice system in doubt.
People who have undergone a loss get a fair amount of leeway on their behavior.
I'm always interested in linking dance to mundane behavior that everyone can relate to.
At least 80 percent of American prisoners are grossly over-sentenced. The Supreme Court knows this, but shows scant concern for this human side of criminal justice.
Lowering the Lord’s standards to the level of a society’s inappropriate behavior is apostasy.
I've always believed in the goodness of people. I teach in prison. They all said, don't do it. Carry a gun, take Mace. Are you kidding? I guess, they're around so many criminal elements that they fear for.
