Jack Vance Quotes

Each time I told them I didn't kill my wife.

Obstruction of justice requires a corrupt intent.

What you do to prevent further felonious assault, as long as the felon is still capable of action, is justified.

Many conspiracies are not criminal, even conspiracies that involve slamming somebody.

the act does not create guilt unless the mind is also guilty.

Why should I resign ... First of all, I am not guilty of any of these charges. Second, we have a constitution to follow.

The advocates of a criminal are seldom artists enough to turn the beautiful terribleness of the deed to the advantage of the doer.

What these memos do is they make legal acts that were criminal prior to these memos.

Because we find somethings distasteful is not justification enough for us to deem them criminal.

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.

Shocking writing is like murder: the questions the jury must decide are the questions of motive and intent.

If conduct is intentional, it could subject some of the criminal liability.

While I live, every criminal must die.

The criminal element now calculates that crime really does pay.

War crimes will be prosecuted. War criminals will be punished. And it will be no defense to say, 'I was just following orders.'

almost any object, including this book you hold, can turn up as Exhibit A in a murder trial.

Suppose by chance you do get picked up. What have you done? You shot a horse; that isn't first degree murder; in fact, it isn't even murder; in fact, I don't know what it is.

What did Doctor Doom really want? He wanted to rule the world. Now, think about this. You could walk across the street against a traffic light and get a summons for jaywalking, but you could walk up to a police officer and say "I want to rule the world," and there's nothing he can do about it, that is not a crime. Anybody can want to rule the world. So, even though he was the Fantastic Four's greatest menace, in my mind, he was never a criminal!

There is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action.

A crime is a crime irrespective of the birth marks of the criminal.

To whom do I owe the first apology? No one's been crueler than I've been to me.

It was declared by Congress that marijuana makes people insane. But . . . lawyers, defense lawyers, got the idea, OK, I can use this for an insanity defense.

Stealing to eat ain’t criminal—stealing to be rich is.

If I wasn't going to be a world-famous journalist and if I didn't have such respect for truth and justice, I could be an amazing master criminal.

We've got to address the systemic racism in our criminal justice system.