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• If we'd lost the war, we'd all have been prosecuted as war criminals. And I think he's right. He, and I'd say I, were behaving as war criminals.

  Robert McNamara

  War, Thinking, Lost

  Robert S. McNamara (2004). “Official Teacher's Guide for The Fog of War: An Errol Morris Film”

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• Out of 135 criminals, including robbers and rapists, 118 admitted that when they were children they burned, hanged and stabbed domestic animals.

  George W. Bush

  Children, Animal, Burned

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• Eliminating the death penalty...will not hinder the prosecutorial capacity to seek, or the court's ability to impose, 'life without parole' sentences for serious, heinous crimes and criminals.

  Scott Harshbarger

  Serious, Death Penalty, Law Enforcement

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• The criminal justice system, like any system designed by human beings, clearly has its flaws.

  Ben Whishaw

  Justice, Flaws, Humans

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I've been driven all my life by a spirit of adventure and a criminal level of optimism. I believed in my dreams because they were my only option. The people who make it to the top are addicted to their calling. You have to honor the gift God has given you. The people who get the call are the ones who'd be doing whatever it is they love, even if they weren't being paid.

  Quincy Jones

  Dream, Adventure, People

  Quincy Jones (2002). “Q: The Autobiography of Quincy Jones”, p.266, Three Rivers Press

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• Understand then all of you, especially the young, that to want to impose an imaginary state of government on others by violence is not only a vulgar superstition, but even a criminal work. Understand that this work, far from assuring the well-being of humanity is only a lie, a more or less unconscious hypocrisy, camouflaging the lowest passions we posses.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Lying, Passion, Government

  Passage written in 1908 for for 'The Law of Love and the Law of Violence'. "Equality in Liberty and Justice". Book by Antony Flew, p. 89, 2001.

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• The perfection of a thing consists in its essence; there are perfect criminals, as there are men of perfect probity.

  Mazo de la Roche

  Men, Essence, Perfect

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• A cement mixer collided with a prison van on the Kingston Pass. Motorists are asked to be on the lookout for 16 hardened criminals.

  Ronnie Corbett

  Prison, Funny Jokes, Crash

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• Never will they label our liberation struggle as criminal

  Bobby Sands

  Struggle, Labels, Republican

  Bobby Sands (1998). “Bobby Sands: Writings from Prison”, Mercier PressLtd

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• The libertarian sees the State as a giant gang of organized criminals, who live off the theft called "taxation" and use the proceeds to kill, enslave, and generally push people around. Therefore, any property in the hands of the State is in the hands of thieves, and should be liberated as quickly as possible. Any person or group who liberates such property, who confiscates or appropriates it from the State, is performing a virtuous act and a signal service to the cause of liberty.

  Murray Rothbard

  Hands, People, Liberty

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• His intelligence only exacerbated the guilt Kugel felt for bringing him into the world. It was one thing to have condemned a child to life, that was criminal enough, but life was a sentence more easily served by fools.

  Shalom Auslander

  Children, Guilt, World

  Shalom Auslander (2012). “Hope: A Tragedy: A Novel”, p.201, Penguin

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• Jay Carney, whose unenviable job is not to explain but to explain away what his employers say, calls the IRS’s behavior “inappropriate. ” No, using the salad fork for the entree is inappropriate. Using the Internal Revenue Service for political purposes is a criminal offense.

  George Will

  Jobs, Political, Purpose

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• The civil forfeiture law - if something so devoid of due process can be dignified as law - is an incentive for perverse behavior: Predatory government agencies get to pocket the proceeds from property they seize from Americans without even charging them with, let alone convicting them of, crimes. Criminals are treated better than this because they lose the fruits of their criminality only after being convicted.

  George Will

  Agency, Government, Law

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• They attack the victim, and then the criminal who attacked the victim accuses the victim of attacking him. This is American justice. This is American democracy and those of you who are familiar with it know that in America democracy is hypocrisy. Now, if I’m wrong, put me in jail; but if you can’t prove that democracy is not hypocrisy, then don’t put your hands on me.

  Malcolm X

  Hands, America, Jail

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• If it is a Miracle, any sort of evidence will answer, but if it is a Fact, proof is necessary

  Mark Twain

  Miracle, Answers, Criminal Mind

  Mark Twain (1962). “Letters from the earth”, Buccaneer Books

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• On general principles, it is best that I should not leave the country. Scotland Yard feels lonely without me, and it causes an unhealthy excitement among the criminal classes.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Country, Lonely, Travel

  "The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax" (1911)

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• Don't try to be fancy. Shoot for the center of mass. The world is full of decent people. Criminals we can do without.

  Jeff Cooper

  People, Trying, World

  Jeff Cooper (2006). “Principles of Personal Defense: Revised Edition”, p.44, Paladin Press

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• Society does not go down because of the activities of criminals,
  But because of the inactivities of the good people.

  Swami Vivekananda

  People, Doe, Inactivity

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• No man can delegate,... any right of arbitrary dominion over a 3rd person; for that would imply a right in the 1st person, not only to make the 3rd person his slave, but also a right to dispose of him as a slave to still other persons. Any contract to do this is necessarily a criminal one...To call such a contract a “constitution” does not at all lessen its criminality, or add to its validity.

  Lysander Spooner

  Men, Doe, Add

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• Why is non-commercial public expression considered criminal?

  Shepard Fairey

  Expression

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• Female genital mutilation targets little girls, baby girls - fragile angels who are helpless, who cannot fight back. It's a crime against a child, a crime against humanity. It's abuse. It's absolutely criminal and we have to stop it.

  Waris Dirie

  Girl, Baby, Children

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• Bottom line is that I have had a totally criminal moral code and operated with a totally criminal mind attitude that I have not fully confronted (even down to lying about lying and doing illegal things).

  Mike Rinder

  Attitude, Lying, Illegal Things

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• Part of the reason why movie bosses are so obsessed with crime movies is because they know that world and the criminals. And that's what they are - they would not hesitate to act illegally to achieve profit and gain.

  Peter Mullan

  Boss, World, Gains

  Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2003.

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• How awful for them [Hitler's victims] to see those swastikas, the SS men and the SA - people we'd never thought of as criminals.

  Leni Riefenstahl

  Men, People, Politics

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• I wonder that no criminal has ever pleaded the ugliness of your city as an excuse for his crimes.

  Oscar Wilde

  Cities, America, Wonder

  Oscar Wilde (2010). “Oscar Wilde in America: The Interviews”, p.70, University of Illinois Press

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