Criminal Element Quotes

I've always been tremendously interested in criminal law. It goes to a deep interest I have in prisons and the criminal element, and what we do as a society with it. I've always been touched by the idea of criminality.

'Luke Cage' is about a reluctant superhero who lives in the shadows in Harlem. He has to decide if he's going to step up and fight for the heart of the city and defend the people against Cornell 'Cottonmouth' Stokes, my character, who kinda wants to keep everything in order and intact. I'm the criminal element in the story.

The current prohibition laws are forcing drug disputes to be played out with guns in our streets. We need to put a stop to this criminal drug element in our country.

While there is a lower class, I am in it. While there is a criminal element, I am of it. And while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.

Your Honor, years ago I recognized my kinship with all living beings, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on earth. I said then, and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it, and while there is a criminal element I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.

Either you were a hoodlum, or you were a puddle on the sidewalk.

The mob is a monster, with the hands of Briareus, but the head of Polyphemus,--strong to execute, but blind to perceive.

The crime part is the engine that moves the narrative and allows me to write the other things I want to write about.

If being a gangster were a prerequisite to being a musician, there'd be a lot less cello music, for example.

Crime has always been a regrettably consistent element of the human experience.

When we started out, there was so much cash involved that it attracted an element you'd rather not do business with.

Let me tell you, Alex. He's a crook. He's based here in Miami. He's a nasty piece of work." "He's mexican" Troy added.

If you look at 'The Sopranos,' there's this notion of a criminal element on its last legs.

In communities of color, such as Ferguson, it often feels like the police are protecting the white community from us instead of protecting our communities from the criminal element.

The internal and international criminal gang will either be forced to work or simply exterminated.

While we may have taken away some of the criminal element when we repealed prohibition, we certainly didn't solve the problem of alcoholism.