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• The legislator commands the future; to be feeble will avail him nothing: it is for him to will what is good and to perpetuate it; to make man what he desires to be: for the laws, working upon the social body, which is inert in itself, can produce either virtue or crime, civilized customs or savagery.

  Louis Antoine de Saint-Just

  Men, Law, Desire

  "Discours sur la Constitution à donner à la France". Speech to the National Convention, April 24, 1793.

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• The Revolution has grown cold; all its principles are weakened; there remains only red caps worn by intriguers. The exercise of terror has made crime blasé, as strong liquors made the palace blasé.

  Louis Antoine de Saint-Just

  Strong, Exercise, Principles

  Speech fragment, 1794.

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• Even though the crime rate has dropped in recent years, the United States has more police per capita then any other nation in the world.

  Michael Parenti

  Years, Political, Police

  "Democracy for the Few". Book by Michael Parenti, 1974.

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• There are more than a few people, especially among the cultural élite, who still publicly regret the fact that Germany sent Einstein packing, without realizing that it was a much greater crime to kill little Hans Cohn from around the corner, even though he was no genius.

  Hannah

  Regret, People, Germany

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• Men imitate the gods whom they adore, and to such miserable beings their crimes become their religion.

  Cyprian

  Men, Miserable, Adore

  Cyprian (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Saint Cyprian (Annotated Edition)”, p.49, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Your fate is to be yourself, both punishment and crime.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Being Yourself, Fate, Punishment

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• To avoid a future of war, crime, and bankruptcy, the individual must begin to plan his own destiny, and the best source for the necessary information comes down to us through the writings of the ancients. The greatest knowledge of all time should be available ... in a book that would be a monument, not merely a coffin.

  Manly Hall

  War, Book, Writing

  "The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Diamond Jubilee Edition)". Book by Manly P. Hall, 1988.

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• A painting is finished when to have done less would be considered a sin and more a crime.

  Ted Godwin

  Finishing, Would Be, Done

  Ted Godwin, Luther Pokrant (2002). “The Studio Handbook for Working Artists: A Survival Manual”, p.40, University of Regina Press

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• We are good citizens, and we cannot protect ourselves because you allow the criminals to run wild. ... I'd like you to come and live in the inner city for a week and see the importance of having a weapon. ... Go after the criminals and not the good people.

  Jesse Lee Peterson

  Running, Cities, People

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• If Americans actually have the conversation about our disastrous prison policies, we'll understand the trends all move in very dangerous directions: we lock up more people, for less violent crime, at ever greater expense, breeding more dangerous criminals who often come out unemployable, violent and isiolated.

  Dahlia Lithwick

  Moving, People, Locks

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• Almost no one under 60 remembers what fundraising was like before Watergate. Until the 1970s, campaign money was collected by "bagmen," familiar characters from the world of organized crime. As fans of Boardwalk Empire know, a bagman is a political fixer who walked around with stacks of $100 and $1,000 bills. At lower levels, he used brown paper bags. In presidential campaigns, the cash was more likely to be in briefcases. Classier that way.

  Jonathan Alter

  Character, Fundraising, Presidential

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• Publishers are humane men, and rarely commit crimes. Authors, however, are a hardened set, who usually perpertrate a felony every time they issue a book.

  Robert Barr

  Book, Men, Issues

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• Anarchists know that a long period of education must precede any great fundamental change in society, hence they do not believe in vote begging, nor political campaigns, but rather in the development of self-thinking individuals. We look away from government for relief, because we know that force (legalized) invades the personal liberty of man, seizes upon the natural elements and intervenes between man and natural laws; from this exercise of force through governments flows nearly all the misery, poverty, crime and confusion existing in society.

  Lucy Parsons

  Believe, Exercise, Men

  "The Principles of Anarchism". A Lecture by Lucy E. Parsons, lucyparsons.org.

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• Many Europeans, while admiring the strength and power of the American economy, undoubtedly feel that the system of social values which prevails in the United States, manifested in the acute problems evident in the inner cities and the level of violent crime, for example, leaves much to be desired.

  Paul Ormerod

  Social Values, Cities, United States

  "The Death of Economics". Book by Paul Ormerod, 1994.

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• I tell you, guilt dwells nowhere but in the eyes of the accuser. This men know even as they deny it, which is why they so often make murder their absolution. The truth of crime lies not with the victim but with the witness.

  R. Scott Bakker

  Lying, Eye, Men

  R. Scott Bakker (2008). “The Thousandfold Thought: The Prince of Nothing, Book Three (The Prince of Nothing)”, p.47, The Overlook Press

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• Whatever open-border libertarians think about immigration law, once the immigration scofflaw steals, trespasses, or vandalizes private property, said alien is guilty of crimes. To say, moreover, that the state's laws made masses of men and women commit such crimes is to voice the philosophy of determinism, not individualism.

  Ilana Mercer

  Philosophy, Men, Thinking

  "That Spot Of Bother On The Border". www.wnd.com. May 04, 2007.

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• 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!

  Stan Lee

  Thinking, Doctors, Light

  "Stan Lee's Amazing Marvel Universe". Book by Roy Thomas, 2006.

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• The prohibition of drugs causes crime. You don't have to legalize, just decriminalize it.

  Jesse Ventura

  Drug, Causes, Prohibition

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• My job is to investigate whether or not a crime is committed, can be proved and should be charged. I'm not going to comment on what to make beyond that. You know, it's not my jurisdiction, not my job, not my judgment.

  Patrick Fitzgerald

  Jobs, Judgment, Should

  "Cheney Aide Libby Indicted in Plame Case". "Talk of the Nation", www.npr.org. October 28, 2005.

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• There's a romance to danger. There's a romance to drinking, to drugs, to petty crime and to heartbreak and loneliness. All of those things can be used to make the story of our lives better.

  Joey Comeau

  Loneliness, Drinking, Romance

  Interview with Adrian Comeau, "I Am Other People" series, www.asofterworld.com.

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• You're damn right when you say I've shown people how to make a firebomb, I've done my time for my crimes, and I should be able to talk about them.

  Rod Coronado

  People, Done, Able

  "Feds arrest environment radical over S.D. speech" by Onell R. Soto, legacy.sandiegouniontribune.com. February 23, 2006.

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• I have been advised that you have decided to move forward with your story without my interview. This, despite the fact confirmed more than three weeks ago that I would make myself available on a date certain (6 July), after you spoke to other relevant Church personnel and toured Church facilities, and that I would provide information annihilating the credibility of your sources including the fundamental crimes against the Scientology religion that were the reasons for their removal from post.

  David Miscavige

  Moving, July, Church

  "A Letter from David Miscavige" by Joe Childs and Thomas C. Tobin, St Petersburg Times, June 23, 2009.

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• Armenians, as a people that have survived the Genocide, have a moral duty towards mankind and history in the prevention of genocides. We have done and will continue to do our best to support the persistent implementation of the Genocide Convention. Genocide cannot concern only one people, because it is a crime against humanity.

  Serzh Sargsyan

  People, Support, Humanity

  Speech by President Serzh Sargsyan in the Chatham House British Royal Institute of International Affairs, www.president.am. February 10, 2010.

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• It was measured that the splinters of the Armenian nation that had managed to miraculously escape the Genocide would not be able to recover from the blow, would disappear in the whirlpools on five continents, lose their national identity, and aptitude to be a political factor. But we, as a nation and as a state, were able to reappear at the international arena to affirm that we continue our eternal journey and that we are determined not to allow for such a crime to ever happen again.

  Serzh Sargsyan

  Blow, Journey, Political

  President Serzh Sargsyan's Address on the Commemoration of the 95th Anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, April 24, 2010.

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• There are crimes which no one would commit as an individual which he willingly and bravely commits when acting in the name of his society, because he has been (too easily) convinced that evil is entirely different when it is done 'for the common good.'...one might point to the way in which racial hatreds and even persecution are admitted by people who consider themselves, and perhaps in some sense are, kind, tolerant, civilized and even humane.

  Thomas Merton

  Names, People, Evil

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