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• Twice in his life Eugene Victor Debs took the long leap to the Ultima Thule of prison, passing beyond the realm of the acceptable into the nonacceptable, from respectability into the criminal community of the monster who was an enemy to the people.

  Marguerite Young

  Long, People, Community

  Marguerite Young (1999). “Harp Song for a Radical: The Life and Times of Eugene Victor Debs”, Knopf

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• If you've got a gun law that criminals will obey, why not just turn it into a murder law that criminals will obey-then we won't have to worry about the gun part.

  Andrew W. Ford

  Gun, Law, Worry

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• Every good army needs a couple of criminals.

  Dean Lombardi

  Couple, Army, Needs

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• Yet only the atrocities of the conquered are referred to as criminal acts; those of the conqueror are justified as necessary, heroic, and even worse, as the fulfillment of God's will.

  Jim Fergus

  Atrocities, Heroic, Justified

  Jim Fergus (2005). “The Wild Girl: The Notebooks of Ned Giles, 1932”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• It is painful for me to see when criminal elements of all kinds fire from my weapon.

  Mikhail Kalashnikov

  Fire, Ak 47, Elements

  "Whose bright idea was that?". Interview With Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. November 12, 2010.

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• I am very interested in loyalty, even if the person to whom one is loyal is flawed, criminal, or otherwise in the wrong.

  A.M. Homes

  Loyalty, Flawed, Persons

  A.M. Homes (2012). “May We Be Forgiven”, p.199, Granta Books

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• The test of every religious, political, or educational system, is the man which it forms. If a system injures the intelligence it is bad. If it injures the character it is vicious. If it injures the conscience it is criminal.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Education, Religious, Character

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• I really know nothing more criminal, more mean, and more ridiculous than lying. It is the production either of malice, cowardice, or vanity; and generally misses of its aim in every one of these views; for lies are always detected, sooner or later.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Lying, Mean, Vanity

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield (1855). “The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author”, p.156

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• I came to know that in many ways it was a crime to be Filipino in California .... I feel like a criminal running away from a crime I did not commit. And this crime is that I am a Filipino in America.

  Carlos Bulosan

  Running, California, America

  Carlos Bulosan (1973). “America is In the Heart: A Personal History”, p.7, University of Washington Press

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• It seemed so illogical to punish some poor criminal for doing something that civilization taught him how to do so he could have something that civilization taught him how to want. It seemed to him as wrong as if they had hung the gun that shot the man.

  Chester Himes

  Gun, Men, Civilization

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• Was I a criminal? No. I was a good member of society. Only my society and the one making the laws are different.

  Owsley Stanley

  Law, Different, Members

  "For the unrepentant patriarch of LSD, long, strange trip winds back to Bay Area" by Joel Selvin, www.sfgate.com. July 12, 2007.

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• It is easy to slip into a parallel universe. There are so many of them: worlds of the insane, the criminal, the crippled, the dying, perhaps of the dead as well. These worlds exist alongside this world and resemble it, but are not in it.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Dying, Insane, World

  "Girl, Interrupted". Book by Susanna Kaysen, 1993.

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• We Christians are debtors to all men at all times in all places, but we are so smug to the lostness of men. We've been 'living in Laodicea,' lax, loose, lustful, and lazy. Why is there this criminal indifference to the lostness of men? Our condemnation is that we know how to live better than we are living.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Christian, Men, Lazy

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• Those who attempt nothing themselves think every thing easily performed, and consider the unsuccessful always as criminal.

  Samuel Johnson

  Thinking, Modesty, Unsuccessful

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”

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• For my part, I believe that the vain, glorious and the violent will not inherit the earth. . . . In pursuance of that faith my friends and I take the hands of the dying in our hands. And some of us travel to the Pentagon, and others live in the Bowery and serve there, and others speak unpopularly and plainly of the fate of the unborn and of convicted criminals. It is all one.

  Daniel Berrigan

  Friendship, Believe, Fate

  Daniel Berrigan (1980). “We Die Before We Live: Talking with the Very Ill”, Harper San Francisco

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• The normal citizen looked at us and saw a mixture of gangster, hippy, criminal and ape. Once somebody rang us up with a nice voice and asked if they could do a feature article on us about how a commune works. They came and asked us questions, took our photos and disappeared. One week later the article appeared and it said: 'This kind of community stinks and if this is the future of Germany then we need Adolf back.'

  Chris Karrer

  Nice, Voice, Community

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• The lesson has already been learned with alcohol prohibition. We tried to engineer an alcohol-free society and ended up with huge criminal enterprises, government corruption, children lured into organized crime and random violence that took the lives of countless innocent people.

  Kurt Schmoke

  Children, Government, Random Violence

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• You've got criminal courts and child welfare officials refusing to do their jobs and protect children so they can shift the cases over to family court where predatory professionals can turn a dirty buck off the atrocities committed against children.

  Anne Stevenson

  Jobs, Children, Dirty

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• Experts say that children are not born criminals, nor pampered parasites. They are made that way by the environment in which they live.

  J. Edgar Hoover

  Children, Experts, Way

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• If one would discern the centers of dominance in any society, one need only look to its definitions of "virtue" and "vice" or "legal" and "criminal," for, in the strength to set standards, resides the strength to maintain control.

  Freda Adler

  Strength, Vices, Needs

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• If we'd lost the war, we'd all have been prosecuted as war criminals.

  Curtis LeMay

  War, Lost, Has Beens

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• Fabricating reality was criminal; editing it, commonplace.

  Amy Waldman

  Reality, Editing, Commonplace

  Amy Waldman (2011). “The Submission”, p.160, Random House

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• It seems that in Baltimore, one of the most violent cities in America, jurors are far more reluctant to convict criminal defendants than in the suburban enclaves that ring the city.

  David Simon

  Cities, America, Baltimore

  "The escalating breakdown of urban society across the US" by David Simon, www.theguardian.com. September 5, 2008.

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• When I find that so much of my life has stolen unprofitably away, and that I can descry by retrospection scarcely a few single days properly and vigorously employed, why do I yet try to resolve again? I try, because reformation is necessary and despair is criminal. I try, in humble hope of the help of God.

  Samuel Johnson

  Life, Hope, Humble

  "The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D".

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• Thousands are the children of poor foreigners, who have permitted them to grow up without school, education, or religion. All the neglect and bad education and evil example of a poor class tend to form others, who, as they mature, swell the ranks of ruffians and criminals. So, at length, a great multitude of ignorant, untrained, passionate, irreligious boys and young men are formed, who become the "dangerous class" of our city.

  Charles Loring Brace

  Education, Children, Growing Up

  "The Dangerous Classes of New York and Twenty Years' Work Among Them".

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