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• It is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness to steal a crown. The blame diminishes as the guilt increases.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Greatness, Guilt, Crowns

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• My rackets are run on strictly American lines and they're going to stay that way.

  Al Capone

  Funny, Running, Humor

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• I believe an international criminal court is very much to be desired.

  Harold Pinter

  Believe, Court, International

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• It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

  Voltaire

  Peace, Crazy, War

  "Rights". Book by Voltaire, 1771.

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• It does no harm just once in a while to acknowledge that the whole country isn't in flames, that there are people in the country besides politicians, entertainers, and criminals.

  Charles Kuralt

  Country, Flames, Justice

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• The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Philosophical, Men, Literature

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.171, Simon and Schuster

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• What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Happiness, Lying

  Aristotle (1953). “Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics”

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• Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.

  Blaise Pascal

  Strength, Umpires, Justice

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Blaise Pascal Thoughts: Selected and Translated”, p.56, Cambridge University Press

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• Liberals are stalwart defenders of civil liberties - provided we're only talking about criminals.

  Ann Coulter

  Hippie, Talking, Liberty

  Twitter post from Dec 9, 2015

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• Let the Lord judge the criminals.

  Tupac Shakur

  Thug, Rapper, Judging

  Song: I Wonder If Heaven Got A Ghetto, 1997

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• The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

  Samuel Butler

  Death, Doubt, Dying

  Samuel Butler (1951). “Notebooks: Selections Edited by Geoffrey Keynes and Brian Hill”

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• Everyone has favorite criminals. Mine are pimps. We can all rob a bank; we can all sell drugs. Being a pimp is a whole other thing.

  Chris Rock

  Funny, Humor, Drug

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• Alfred Nobel's discoveries are characteristic; powerful explosives can help men perform admirable tasks. They are also a means to terrible destruction in the hands of the great criminals who lead peoples to war.

  Pierre Curie

  Powerful, War, Mean

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• Discovering witnesses is just as important as catching criminals.

  Simon Wiesenthal

  Important, Catching, Witness

  Simon Wiesenthal (1976). “The sunflower”, Schocken

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• The possibility of bringing white-collar criminals to justice is ever receding over the horizon.

  Sara Paretsky

  White, Justice, New Horizons

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• The most absurd apology for authority and law is that they serve to diminish crime. Aside from the fact that the State is itself the greatest criminal, breaking every written and natural law, stealing in the form of taxes, killing in the form of war and capital punishment, it has come to an absolute standstill in coping with crime. It has failed utterly to destroy or even minimize the horrible scourge of its own creation.

  Emma Goldman

  War, Apology, Law

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.33, 谷月社

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• As governor, there isn't a lot I can do beyond that to crack down on crime. Law enforcement is really a local issue. It's the cops' job to tighten down on criminals.

  Jesse Ventura

  Jobs, Law, Issues

  Jesse Ventura (2000). “I Ain't Got Time to Bleed: Reworking the Body Politic from the Bottom Up”, p.33, Villard

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• Our systems are all go. At 9:30 Monday morning trading will resume on both markets, and the message will be given to criminals who foisted this on America that they lost.

  Richard Grasso

  Monday, Morning, America

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• I don't know anybody in the underworld. I make this stuff up. I don't know any criminals.

  James Ellroy

  Stuff, Underworld, Knows

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• Illegal immigration is crisis for our country. It is an open door for drugs, criminals, and potential terrorists to enter our country. It is straining our economy, adding costs to our judicial, healthcare, and education systems.

  Timothy Murphy

  Country, Doors, Drug

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• Nothing matters but the facts. Without them, the science of criminal investigation is nothing more than a guessing game.

  Blake Edwards

  Games, Guessing, Matter

  "Fictional character: Clouseau". "A Shot in the Dark", www.imdb.com. 1964.

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• For many centuries, suicides were treated like criminals by the society. That is part of the terrible legacy that has come down into society's method of handling suicide recovery. Now we have to fight off the demons that have been hanging around suicide for centuries.

  Judy Collins

  Suicide, Recovery, Fighting

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• If we're going to spend a lot of money to deal with the problem of 200 million guns in the country owned by 65 million gun owners, we ought to have a system which will work and catch criminals.

  John Dingell

  Country, Gun, Problem

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• Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth Truth-telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common: Every single one was a liar.

  J. Edgar Hoover

  Liars, Lying, Keys

  "What I Would Tell a Son," Family Weekly, July 14, 1963.

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• Life and liberty can be as much endangered from illegal methods used to convict those thought to be criminals as from the actual criminals themselves.

  Earl Warren

  Liberty, Used, Illegal

  Writing for the court, Spano v. New York 360 U.S. 321, 1959.

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