Stanley Kubrick Quotes

During the Mueller investigation, Roger Stone lied to federal investigators and allegedly pressured one potential witness. Not good. Never good.

There’s simply nothing in there that would justify second degree murder.

And trying to break it down this way, to minor and major offenses, maybes and what-ifs, was like arguing over the origin of cracks in a broken egg. It was done. How it happened didn't matter anymore.

I'm demanding to be prosecuted. I'm begging to be prosecuted for perjury.

We cannot lightly allow the perpetrator of a serious crime to go free simply because that person believed his actions were reasonable and necessary to prevent some perceived harm.

Fortunately, the courts discharged me every time after they understood what I had done.

There's a difference between criminals and crooks. Crooks steal. Criminals blow some guy's brains out. I'm a crook.

There is a difference between jaywalking and grand larceny.

Treason is not own'd when 'tis decried; Successful crimes alone are justified.

The law is like a string, fixed at both ends but with a great deal of play in it — very loose, the line of the law — so you can stretch it this way or that, rearrange the arc of it so you are nearly always — short of blatant theft or cold-blooded murder — safely on the right side. That's a daunting thing to realize but true.

Citizens who take it upon themselves to do unusual actions which attract the attention of the police should be careful to bring these actions into one of the recognized categories of crimes and offences, for it is intolerable that the police should be put to the pains of inventing reasons for finding them undesirable.

Trump knows he's facing some pretty strong criminal liability when he leaves office, one way or another. Even if a sitting president can't be indicted, he's got to know his future looks like it's behind bars unless he cuts some sort of deal with the prosecutors.

This is a very grave matter, punishable by...well, I do not exactly know what, but something rather severe, I should imagine.

The case has been going on for so long that I've forgotten whether I'm really innocent or guilty.

Not suing others does not mean that others won't sue you.If people are desperate enough to think that they can gain some kind of financial advantage, they'll sue.

The law is a battery, which protects all that is behind it, but sweeps with destruction all that is outside.

Ainsi que la vertu, le crime a ses degre s. Crime, like virtue, has its degrees.

Who calls a lawyer rogue, may find, too lateUpon one of these depends his whole estate.

Let's say you have an ax. Just a cheap one, from Home Depot. On one bitter winter day, you use said ax to behead a man. Don't worry, the man was already dead. Or maybe you should worry, because you're the one who shot him.

Hillary Clinton should have been prosecuted and gone to jail.

I was against felonies when a misdemeanor would do.

Crime, like virtue, has its degrees.

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

Every bullet fired from the barrel of a police pistol was my bullet. If you call that murder, then I am the murderer.

The guilty is he who meditates a crime; the punishment is his who lays the plot.