Mike Judge Quotes

If I was a bad character that got away with murder like we see on other shows, I do not think I would like it because that sends a message that you can do these horrible things and never pay for it.

You know that murder is wicked. If you saw your master kill a man, do you suppose this would be any excuse for you, if you should commit the same crime?

I think if we wish to live in any kind of a moral universe, we must hold the perpetrators of violence responsible for the violence they perpetrate. It's very simple. The criminal is responsible for the crime.

In the end, crime doesn't pay.

It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.

We have crime without punishment.

Pardon one offence and you encourage the commission of many.

Murder will out, this my conclusion.

Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth Truth-telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common: Every single one was a liar.

Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards.

Stealing, you'll go far in life. Actually, there is something funny about getting away with it.

The difference between a murderer and myself is only that I choose not to do it. But I'm capable.

My feeling is that the hero has now been defined by phrases like the odious one that we were all raised with - crimes does not pay. Of course it pays, you schmuck. That's not why we don't do it. We don't do it because it is wrong.

Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime.

What I'm doing is writing stories about women who care about justice. They are women who think about the difference between right and wrong, what's legal and illegal, ethical and unethical, moral and immoral.

You don't know what the [ethical] rules are until the gallows pull up in front of your door and they drag you out to hang you.

Freedom is the right to be wrong, not the right to do wrong.

If we started prosecuting people for sin, we’d all be in jail.

If I want to call somebody's name out, I want to make sure they've done wrong.

Rewarding law breakers produces more law breakers.

I think crime is probably driven more by morality than anything else.

When you're talking about villainy, then you're automatically circling around to talk about justice.

The hope of impunity is the greatest inducement to do wrong.

They used to take your horse and if they were caught they got hung for it. Now they take your car, and if they are caught it's a miracle.

I have a secret passion for mercy. . . but justice is what keeps happening to people.