Criminal Law Quotes - Page 2

• El daño real y potencial del consumo de la droga no es lo suficientemente grande como para justificar la intrusión del derecho penal en el comportamiento privado, un paso que nuestra sociedad sólo da "con la mayor reticencia".

  Raymond P. Shafer

  Ley, Drogas, Delincuentes

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• The courts used to be, fair and square, the avengers of secular crimes; but nowadays they demand respect even for the criminal.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Respect, Squares, Justice

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• Muhammad professed to derive from Heaven, and he has inserted in the Koran, not only a body of religious doctrines, but political maxims, civil and criminal laws, and theories of science. The gospel, on the contrary, only speaks of the general relations of men to God and to each other - beyond which it inculcates and imposes no point of faith. This alone, besides a thousand other reasons, would suffice to prove that the former of these religions will never long predominate in a cultivated and democratic age, whilst the latter is destined to retain its sway at these as at all other periods.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Religious, Men, Law

  "How Will History Remember Obama's 'Cairo Speech'?" by Mary Grabar, www.frontpagemag.com. October 15, 2012.

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• El derecho penal tiene, desde el punto de vista de la virtud frustrada, el mérito de dar salida a esos impulsos de agresión que la cobardía, disfrazada de moral, frena en sus formas más espontáneas. La guerra tiene el mismo mérito. No debes matar a tu vecino, a quien tal vez odias genuinamente, pero con un poco de propaganda este odio puede ser transferido a alguna nación extranjera, contra la cual todos tus impulsos asesinos se convierten en heroísmo patriótico.

  Bertrand Russell

  Hate, War, Patriotic

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• With the greatest respect, we do not make the criminal law on the basis of opinion polls. A majority of 9:1 could be in favour of a ban in my constituency, but I would not regard that as conclusive, and I hope that we never would. If we start having opinion polls about all the unpleasant and distasteful habits and customs of some members of society, and suggesting that their findings should be made part of the criminal law, foxhunting would come way down the list, and quite a lot of strange enactments would have to go through the House.

  Kenneth Clarke

  Hunting, Law, House

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• German diligence is actually endurance.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Endurance, Criminals, Diligence

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• There are certain irregularities which are not the subject of criminal law. But when the criminal law happens to be auxiliary to the law of morality, I do not feel any inclination to explain it away.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Law, Criminals, Morality

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• Criminal law is one of the few professions where the client buys someone else's luck. The luck of most people is strictly non-transferrable. But a good criminal lawyer can sell all his luck to a client, and the more luck he sells the more he has to sell.

  William S. Burroughs

  Law, People, Luck

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• Me gustan mucho los diálogos. Estoy un poco loco y si a eso le sumas 20 años como abogado penalista, es bastante fácil idear tramas interesantes.

  Christopher Darden

  Crazy, Real, Years

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• I wanted to be a prosecutor - a criminal lawyer - because there's nowhere where the stakes are higher, where you can wake up every day and believe in what you're doing.

  Preet Bharara

  Believe, Criminals, Wake Up

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• This issue of expanding the reach of international criminal law by reliance on the use of Universal Jurisdiction by domestic courts needs to be balanced against the injustice of according impunity to those with strong geopolitical backing. It is notable that several western European countries backtracked on UJ after threats of retaliatory moves by the United States and Israel. There is no doubt that the domain of UJ is a geopolitical battleground.

  Richard A. Falk

  Country, Strong, Moving

  Fuente: www.counterpunch.org

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• Those who are talking sharia in Nigeria are really just politicians exploiting what they think is available. But if it should turn out that there are in fact whole sections of the country which believe that it is legitimate to chop off peoples hands because they stole a hen - if that should really turn out to be the genuine belief of responsible, educated people in the North than I would say there is no chance. But I do not believe that is the case. The sharia was always there but it was never force onto non-Muslims and it was not ever applied in the area of criminal law.

  Chinua Achebe

  País, Creer, Pensar

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• The main challenge is what to do in the face of double standards. Those who should be rendered accountable under international criminal law, the Kissingers of this world, enjoy de facto impunity, while those who come from countries that have long been targets of hegemonic abuse are used as poster children of accountability.

  Richard A. Falk

  Country, Children, Law

  Fuente: www.counterpunch.org

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• I see, from my vantage point as the vice-chair of the Legal Services Corporation, a serious crisis going on in this country. Eighty percent of low-income people have no access to the civil justice system, meaning anything but criminal law.

  Martha Minow

  País, Personas, Justicia

  Fuente: to.pbs.org

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• Lo primero que hay que decir es que el derecho penal ordinario de este país, la Ley de Derechos Humanos, la Ley de la Infancia, todas las leyes del país tienen prioridad, pero lo que también estoy diciendo es que en el contexto de un país laico, que es lo que Gran Bretaña es ahora, o al menos un país que pretende ser relativamente igualitario entre las religiones, debería haber cierto margen para permitir que las comunidades religiosas se gobiernen a sí mismas, siempre que sea consensuado y se respeten los derechos humanos de todos.

  Sadakat Kadri

  Country, Community, Human Rights

  Fuente: www.guernicamag.com

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• Tanto los derechos humanos como el derecho penal internacional ilustran el potencial contradictorio del derecho internacional. Por un lado, la imposición de normas de derechos humanos es un freno a la diplomacia intervencionista, especialmente si va unida al respeto de la norma jurídica de la autodeterminación. Pero, por otro lado, la protección de los derechos humanos crea un pretexto para la intervención, que cuenta con la aprobación del Consejo de Seguridad de la ONU en forma de norma de responsabilidad de proteger, como se utilizó en la intervención libia de 2011. Lo mismo ocurre con la responsabilidad penal internacional.

  Richard A. Falk

  Determination, Responsibility, Self

  Fuente: www.counterpunch.org

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• There's going to be a lot of remedies. [Donald Trump] is also subject to other conflicts laws.The bribery laws are intended to prevent conflicts, for example. He's subject to criminal law. He's subject to civil law. He's going to be subject to litigation. He's already in a lot of cases. This is going to come up in existing litigation and there's going to be new litigation.

  Norman L. Eisen

  Law, Criminals, Example

  Fuente: abcnews.go.com

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• It is the policy of the United States not to engage in torture, and there are federal criminal laws that prohibit torture.

  John Yoo

  Law, Criminals, United States

  Fuente: www.guernicamag.com

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• My father taught me to love detective fiction writers such as Raymond Chandler. When I decided to have a hard-boiled detective series I did a lot of studying before I wrote the first book. I learned police procedure, the California criminal law, and many areas outside my expertise.

  Sue Grafton

  Father, Book, Law

  Interview with Elise Cooper, crimespreemag.com. August 21, 2015.

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• I have made a career out of arguing that we shouldn't be criminalizing political differences. I've made a career out of arguing that the grand jury is an abusive institution. I have made a career out of arguing that we shouldn't stretch and expand the criminal law. I'm not going to change it because you think these are abnormal times. When Thomas Jefferson told the Justice Department that they had to prosecute Aaron Burr, and that he was going to have the chief justice impeached unless he found Aaron Burr guilty, those were special times too.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Thinking, Justice, Political

  Fuente: www.wbur.org

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• El Islam tiene una organización total de la vida que es completamente diferente de la nuestra; lo abarca sencillamente todo,... Hay una subordinación muy marcada de la mujer al hombre; hay un derecho penal muy estricto, de hecho, un derecho que regula todos los ámbitos de la vida, que se opone a nuestras ideas modernas sobre la sociedad. Hay que tener claro que no se trata simplemente de una confesión que pueda incluirse en el ámbito libre de una sociedad pluralista.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Men, Law, Organization

  "Tough-talking pope has history with Muslims, refuses to give in". www.washingtontimes.com. September 20, 2006.

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• Un crimen perseverado durante mil siglos deja de ser un crimen y se convierte en una virtud. Esta es la ley de la costumbre, y la costumbre sustituye a todas las demás formas de ley.

  Mark Twain

  Divertido, Humor, Derecho

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.230, Courier Corporation

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• I threw my whole life and lived my life in a certain way to make sure that I would never violate any law.. certainly never any criminal laws.. and always maintained that most important to me was my integrity, was my character, were my values.

  Kenneth Lay

  Integrity, Character, Responsibility

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• Una comunidad se embrutece infinitamente más por el empleo habitual del castigo que por la aparición ocasional del delito.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Humor, Punishment

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)”, p.1649, Delphi Classics

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• La economía política considera al proletario como un caballo, que debe recibir lo suficiente para poder trabajar. No lo considera, durante el tiempo en que no trabaja, como un ser humano. Esto se lo deja al derecho penal, a los médicos, a la religión, a los cuadros estadísticos, a la política y al cuco.

  Karl Marx

  Caballo, Médicos, Derecho

  Karl Marx (1975). "Primeros escritos", Vintage

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