#criminal

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. ↗

— Brad Pitt

#been #behaviour #beyond #capitalism #created

It's like the old rule-if you introduce a gun into the first act of a play, it's going to be used in the third act. So if you do a movie about criminals, you have to accept there's going to be Some action. ↗

— Harold Ramis

#accept #act #action #criminals #first

The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#becomes #breaking #crack #crime #criminals

When teachers try to teach, nurses try to nurse, small businesses try to serve their clients and the police try to arrest criminals, there is always a regulator or three breathing down their necks. Conservatives want to make people's lives easier. ↗

— John Redwood

#arrest #breathing #businesses #clients #conservatives

Everyone has favorite criminals. Mine are pimps. We can all rob a bank; we can all sell drugs. Being a pimp is a whole other thing. ↗

— Chris Rock

#being #criminals #everyone #favorite #mine

It's very important to go back and keep in mind the distinction between handling these events as criminal acts, which was the way we did before 9/11, and then looking at 9/11 and saying, "This is not a criminal act," not when you destroy 16 acres of Manhattan, kill 3,000 Americans, blow a big hole in the Pentagon. That's an act of war. ↗

— Dick Cheney

#act #acts #back #before #between

Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#criminal #dig #dungeons #educational #gentle

Yes, it is worse than thrown away, because every fair minded man must admit that the expenditure of this sum of money in the county for intoxicating liquor creates lawlessness, makes criminals, wrecks homes and brings trouble to innocent women and children. ↗

— Thomas Jordan Jarvis

#away #because #brings #children #county

There is nothing anyone can do anyway. The public has no power. The government knows I'm not a criminal. The parole board knows I'm not a criminal. The judge knows I'm not a criminal. ↗

— Jack Kevorkian

#anyway #board #criminal #government #i

I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal. ↗

— John Maynard Keynes

#despise #ends #government #i #i think