Top 120 Offenders Quotes & Sayings

Outside the practice of science itself, scientists have sometimes been the greatest offenders in adhering to dogmatic ideas against all the evidence.

Where ex-offenders are genuinely trying to turn a corner and live free from crime, it is vital we do all we can to support them.

I knew a girl so ugly, they use her in prisons to cure sex offenders.

And just as two wrongs don't make a right, rage against offenders is probably the worst way to try to correct them.

Amnesty, n. The state's magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish.

We have initiated programs for re-entry offenders, since some 500,000 to 600,000 offenders will come out of prison each year for the next three or four years. We want to have positive alternatives when they come back to the community.

Some of the people on death row today might not be there if the courts had not been so lenient on them when they were first offenders.

I think we do have to be conscious that sometimes there are different issues with women offenders than there are with men.

What I think we should be doing is refocusing all the prevention budgets, all the money spent on teen gangs and young offenders, on conception to age two at a rate of 2% a year.

For the offenders completing these short sentences whose lives are destabilised, and for society which incurs a heavy financial and social cost, prison simply isn't working.

Giving low-level offenders a second chance, no matter the color of their skin or the economic status they hold, can create opportunity for all of us.

The majority of our criminals that we lock up are non-violent offenders.

We must all take care to resist the tendency to focus too much attention on the role that criminals and prior offenders play in gun violence.

I want first-time offenders to think of their appearance in my courtroom as the second-worst experience of their lives - circumcision being the first.

Yet, when child sex offenders are brought to justice and serve time for their offenses, they are often released into unsuspecting communities and left free to resume their sexual attacks.

The DOE and DOD are among the most notorious offenders of our hazardous waste laws.

In the long run, a flexible sentencing procedure which works to rehabilitate offenders offers the best hope in the majority of cases in the Federal courts.

Time is the old justice that examines all such offenders, and let Time try.

Our reforms to criminal record disclosure will benefit ex-offenders, but there will a broader, more significant payoff for everyone in society.

We must do better by offenders who are sent to prison to make them less likely to return.

Under many current state laws, minors who have been victims of trafficking are charged as criminals and go to juvenile detention as offenders.

. . . the solution is not to toss youthful offenders into jail or prisons. We long ago recognized alcoholism to be a disease, and abondoned efforts to treat alcoholics simply by locking them up.

Everybody knows that the industrialized nations are the worst offenders.

Our research shows that nearly 60% of recent offenders who engaged with a community-based alcohol programme did not go on to reoffend in the two years following treatment. Offenders given a community sentence including mental health treatment have also shown to be significantly less likely to reoffend.

MERCY, n. An attribute beloved of detected offenders.

What defenders of the system typically fail to acknowledge is that the reason violent offenders comprise a fairly large percentage of the state prison population is because they typically receive longer sentences than non-violent offenders.

I am not saying 'Dum' flopped only because of piracy. But the money which went to the offenders could have gone to the producers of the film.

We are a humane society, and one which believes that we have to help rehabilitate offenders so they turn away from crime.

Many offenders have had immensely difficult upbringings and do not have the support of loving families and friends.

Fines are preferable to imprisonment and other types of punishment because they are more efficient. With a fine, the punishment to offenders is also revenue to the State.

I have said repeatedly that in this country we track library books better than we do sex offenders.

It is possible to imagine a society flushed with such a sense of power that it could afford to let its offenders go unpunished.

'The Sound of Music' did more damage to the industry than any other picture. Everyone tried to copy it. We were the biggest offenders.

I would love to be erased from our association with Pearl Jam or the Nymphs and other first time offenders.

The task of evangelism often involves preparing an open road so offenders can find their refuge in Christ.

Fines are preferable to imprisonment and other types of punishment because they are more efficient. With a fine, the punishment to offenders is also revenue to the State.

The idea is to make sure that these sex offenders are occupied with constructive matters and not focused on the children who may be knocking at their doors this Halloween

It is essential that we aggressively pursue all criminal offenders, especially those who commit these heinous crimes against women - and seek the maximum penalties under the law.

We mute the realization of malevolence- which is too threatening to bear - by turning offenders into victims themselves and by describing their behavior as the result of forces beyond their control.

There are over 500,000 registered sex offenders across the country, and statistics have shown that the recidivism rate for those criminals is high.

It is time to put more cops on the beat and remove our most violent repeat offenders from our neighborhood streets.

... the growing child must not be treated by those rigid rules of criminal procedure which confessedly fail to prevent offenses on the part of adults or cure adult offenders.

Familiarize yourself with the resources at hand to combat online bullying, and report offenders as often as you need to. Don't hesitate to report and block.

I don't like repeat offenders; I like dead offenders.

Too many communities are living in fear as violent crime rises. So we need to reform our justice system to keep our streets safe and protect the law-abiding majority. That means putting an end to soft sentences and punishing offenders by keeping them behind bars so that the public can be protected and the offenders can be rehabilitated.

In all the interviews I have done, I cannot remember one offender who did not admit privately to more victims than those for whom he had been caught. On the contrarty, most offenders had been charged with and/or convicted of from one to three victims. In the interviews I have done, they have admitted to roughly 10 to 1,250 victims. What was truly frightening was that all the offenders had been reported before by children, and the reports had been ignored.

Criticism is properly the rod of divination: a hazel switch for the discovery of buried treasure, not a birch twig for the castigation of offenders.

God's forgiveness extends to the worst offenders and to anyone who wishes to receive it-not because of who we are, but because of who He is.

Federal law provides very powerful tools, such as strict mandatory sentences, to go after repeat violent offenders who are illegally in the possession of a gun.

Politicians saying one thing and doing another, celebrities though are some of the worst offenders.

In addition, to punishing sexual offenders and protecting our children, we must also provide services, resources and counseling to the people who are victims of these horrible crimes.

The Sound of Music' did more damage to the industry than any other picture. Everyone tried to copy it. We were the biggest offenders.

It doesn't help to wait until something happens and then prosecute the offenders, especially if it's the idea of the offender to extinguish himself in the commission of the crime.

I don't think we should be putting first-time drug offenders in jail for five years. It's a waste of resources.

I work with youth offenders in LA, I've heard them speak and see how music manipulates them.

There is something that happens when victims and offenders meet. Offenders and victims are able to see each other as human beings, with names and families.

There is no zeal blinder than that which is inspired with a love of justice against offenders.

Nearly 100,000 sex offenders remain unregistered, and are moving freely about the country; the risk that they may strike again grows every day.

The practice of executing such offenders is a relic of the past and is inconsistent with evolving standards of decency in a civilized society.

Due to a Supreme Court decision, if these violent offenders cannot be sent home, our law enforcement officers have to release them into your communities.