20th-century Criminal Quotes

Al Capone

Lee Harvey Oswald

Hans Frank

Rudolf Höss

Lucky Luciano

Abu Musab Zarqawi

Kevin Mitnick

And that is my definition of democracy, the right to be in a minority and not be suppressed

Lee Harvey Oswald

The hackers of my time were never in it to steal money. They could break into systems to get access to information. But it wasn't a for-profit venture. Today, you have organized crime using hacking.

If I could get angry at you, I would try to kill every one of you. If that's guilt, I accept it.

When I was a young man, I found out that if you hurt somebody bad enough, they'll leave you alone. When I tried to leave everybody alone and just do my own thing, everybody just wanted to hurt me. Until one day I just decided, well, I've had enough of this picking. And there were like six young men still figuring they were going to mess with my head. And we went to war. To their surprise, I was no longer taking the beating, I was giving it.

Richard Kuklinski

We don't pay taxes. Only the little people pay taxes.

Cease all interference in the religion, society, politics, and governance of the Muslims world. And leave us alone to establish the Islamic shura state, which will unite the Muslims of Earth in truth and justice.

Azzam the American

I killed nobody that didn't deserve killing. In all of these here killings there was no alternative. You couldn't call them cold-blooded killings.... It was either my life or theirs.

Greed is all right, by the way. I think greed is healthy. You can be greedy and still feel good about yourself.

Further, a document names and identifies the actual Red Light Bandits (plural), because in fact there are two.

I have spent the best years of my life giving people the lighter pleasures, helping them have a good time, and all I get is abuse, the existence of a hunted man.

Big deal. Death always went with the territory. See you in Disneyland.

Richard Ramirez

I have to go, but I can't explain the reasons of my choice to you. At this moment things are testifying against me. I fight for cause that can't be understood at this time, but one day people will see that I stood on the side of what is right.

Matteo Messina Denaro

Your Honor, I don't want to take up a lot of your time with my words. I believe I was given a fair trial and I think the sentence is proper and I am willing to accept it like a man. I don't wish to appeal... I desire to be executed on schedule, and I just wish to accept that with the grace and dignity of a man.

You can play jacks, and girls do that with a soft ball and do tricks with it. Oh, Oh, dog Biscuit, and when he is happy he doesn't get snappy.

I tried to commit suicide because I sacrificed everything for Hitler. And that man whom we sacrificed everything for left us all alone. If he had committed suicide four years before, it would have been all right.

I never wanted to be a crumb. If I had to be a crumb, I'd rather be dead.

In conclusion, my ambition is for informing literate dreamers about a new currency... in a few days, you'll know I'm conscience dreaming.

Jared Lee Loughner

To you who follow the American plan, we say that the Sunnis will be the spearhead in the fighting against the Jews, the Americans, and their supporters.

It was no secret in higher Party circles that the Jews were to be exterminated.

I'm sorry, counselor, I'd rather blow the goddamn case.

The battles are many, and the names used are varied. But the goal is one: a Crusader-Rafidite [Rafidites – Shiites, used derogatorily by Sunni extremists] war against the Sunnis.

Abu Musab Zarqawi

I just sought a way to be someone I wasn't. To be loved.

Mark David Chapman

Because there is something helpless and weak and innocent - something like an infant - deep inside us all that really suffers in ways we would never permit an insect to suffer.

I was not a cruel person. I didn't commit murder because I enjoyed causing pain. I had pets all my life and I wanted to be a veterinarian. I never was a bully, or provoked fights, or picked on people weaker than I was.

I had no intention of anyone ever finding out what I had done.