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• Henry Kissinger is the greatest living war criminal in the world today, with the blood of millions of people in Vietnam and Cambodia and Laos and Chile and East Timor on his hands. He will never appear in a court or be behind bars.

  George Galloway

  War, Blood, Hands

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• Sharks are the criminals of the sea. Dolphins are the outlaws.

  Tom Robbins

  Sharks, Sea, Dolphins

  "Still Life with Woodpecker". Book by Tom Robbins, 1980.

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• What sort of a brain-dead idiot does it take to actually believe that gun laws will prevent criminals from obtaining and carrying guns?

  Neal Boortz

  Believe, Gun, Law

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• In Santiago, the capital of the kingdom of Chile, at the moment of the great earthquake of 1647 in which many thousands lost their lives, a young Spaniard called Jeronimo Rugera was standing beside one of the pillars in the prison to which he had been committed on a criminal charge, and he was about to hang himself.

  Heinrich von Kleist

  Earthquakes, Pillars, Kingdoms

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• One of the most sensitive expressions of hope, capacity for change and potential vehicles for institutional health that I have read in my career in criminal justice.

  Scott Harshbarger

  Expression, Careers, Justice

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• Alafair Burke understands the criminal mind. Long Gone is both an education and an entertainment of the first order. This is a very clever and very smart novel by a very clever and smart writer. The dialogue crackles, the plot is intriguing, and the pacing is perfect.

  Karin Slaughter

  Clever, Smart, Order

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• We hunt and fish or we'll go nuts dealing with the criminal behavior of our elected officials.

  Ted Nugent

  Nuts, Behavior, Fishes

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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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• Letting someone down is not criminal action.

  Patrick McHenry

  Action

  "Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer", www.cnn.com. October 8, 2006.

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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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• 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 think it can be shown that the law makes ten criminals where it restrains one.

  Voltairine de Cleyre

  Thinking, Law, Ten

  Voltairine De Cleyre (2004). “The Voltairine de Cleyre Reader”, A K PressDistribution

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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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• 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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• 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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• When it comes to the issue of background checks, let's be honest - background checks will never be 'universal' - because criminals will never submit to them.

  Wayne LaPierre

  Issues, Honest, Checks

  "NRA: More Gun Control Not A Serious Proposal" by Christina Wilkie, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 29, 2013.

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• Any time, every time, you can damn the Prime Minister and so long as it is not a lie and a criminal lie, nothing happens to you.  You can say a lot of things.  You can write books about him, damning him.  So long as it is not a libel, go ahead.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Lying, Book, Writing

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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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• 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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• 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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