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• Now, get this as a technical fact, not a hopeful idea. Every time we have investigated the background of a critic of Scientology, we have found crimes for which that person or group could be imprisoned under existing law. We do not find critics of Scientology who do not have criminal pasts.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Past, Law, Ideas

  "Critics of Scientology". Scientology Bulletin, suppressiveperson.org. November 05, 1967.

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• Mike Stanton is our preeminent aficionado and raconteur of Rhode Island’s flamboyantly criminal political follies, and The Prince of Providence is the chronicle of a great American rogue, Mayor Buddy Cianci—a paragon of charisma and corruption.

  Philip Gourevitch

  Rhode Island, Islands, Political

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• There is no lasting hope in violence, only temporary relief from hopelessness.

  Kingman Brewster, Jr.

  Relief, Criminal Mind, Violence

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• I am conservative by temperament. I disapprove of criminal activity. I am very solidly and markedly on the side of authority. The truth is I would rather err on the side of too much authority than too little.

  James Ellroy

  Littles, Too Much, Sides

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• For a lawyer to do less than his utmost is, I strongly feel, a betrayal of his client. Though in criminal trials one tends to focus on the defense attorney and his client the accused, the prosecutor is also a lawyer, and he too has a client: the People. And the People are equally entitled to their day in court, to a fair and impartial trial, and to justice.

  Vincent Bugliosi

  Betrayal, People, Justice

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• If you do not want the State to act like a criminal, you must disarm it as you would a criminal; you must keep it weak. The State will always be criminal in proportion to its strength; a weak State will always be as criminal as it can be, or dare be, but if it is kept down to the proper limit of weakness - which, by the way, is a vast deal lower limit than people are led to believe - its criminality may be safely got on with.

  Albert J. Nock

  Believe, People, Weakness

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• Taking the State wherever found, striking into its history at any point, one sees no way to differentiate the activities of its founders, administrators and beneficiaries from those of a professional-criminal class.

  Albert J. Nock

  Class, Way, States

  "Our Enemy, the State" by Albert J. Nock (p. 50), 1935.

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• One of the hardest questions I have been asked is 'How will you manage the army if you are having menstrual cramps?' I have also been asked if I will have the courage to face criminals. My answer is that courage is not a matter of gender.

  Josefina Vazquez Mota

  Army, Answers, Matter

  "Josefina Vazquez Mota Challenges Mexico's Machismo". "El Universal" Newspaper, www.foxnews.com. February 7, 2012.

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• I used to wonder why God used a prop like the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil to inflict guilt on Adam&Eve, until I realized it could have been a steak or a plate of fries or a bagel. Anything. Making people feel guilty is a staple of religion and society in general. It works. And if you can transfer guilt from a real criminal to an innocent bystander, you've really got something going. It's a magic stage trick that can make a career.

  Jon Rappoport

  Real, Bystanders, Careers

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• In a laissez-faire society, there could exist no public institution with the power to forcefully protect people from themselves. From other people (criminals), yes. From one's own self, no.

  Karl Hess

  Self, People, Laissez Faire

  L. K. Samuels, Thomas Szasz, Douglas Casey, Brian Clelland, David Friedman (2017). “Facets of Liberty: A Libertarian Primer”, p.48, BookBaby

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• If all boys could be made to know that with every breath of cigarette smoke they inhale imbecility and exhale manhood ... and that the cigarette is a maker of invalids, criminals and fools-not men-it ought to deter them some. The yellow finger stain is an emblem of deeper degradation and enslavement than the ball and chain.

  Hudson Maxim

  Boys, Men, Cigarette Smoke

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• The Children's Safety Act will help protect children from the perpetrators of these vile crimes by strengthening notification requirements for sex offenders and increasing criminal penalties.

  James T. Walsh

  Sex, Children, Safety

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• We think it's reasonable to provide mandatory instant criminal background checks for every sale at every gun show. No loopholes anywhere for anyone.

  Wayne LaPierre

  Thinking, Gun, Checks

  "Meet the Press" with Chuck Todd, www.nbcnews.com. January 30, 2014.

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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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• 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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• 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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• A people [America] that does not prepare to fight should then be morally prepared to surrender. To fail to prepare soldiers and citizens for limited, bloody ground action, and then to engage in it, is folly verging on the criminal.

  T. R. Fehrenbach

  Fighting, America, People

  T. R. Fehrenbach (2014). “This Kind of War: The Classic Military History of the Korean War”, p.480, Open Road Media

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• We need to make a distinction between misled Iraqis, those who believe that they are carrying weapons to liberate Iraq from what they call occupation, and criminal gangs that came from outside and wants to wage a deadly war on the Iraqi people, killing women and children in mosques and churches.

  Jalal Talabani

  Children, War, Lying

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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