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Oscar Wilde
If England treats her criminals the way she has treated me, she doesn't deserve to have any.
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Bust of Marcus Aurelius
Poverty is the mother of crime.
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Will Rogers
We don't seem able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business?
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H. L. Mencken
The doctrine that the cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy is like saying that the cure of crime is more crime.
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Ambrose Bierce
Destiny: a tyrant's authority for crime, and a fool's excuse for failure.
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Gustave Flaubert
Some people commit a crime for no other reason than to see their name in print.
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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
When we execute a murderer, we probably make the same mistake as a child who strikes a chair it has bumped into.
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Voltaire
The punishment of criminals should serve a purpose: when a man is hanged he is useless.
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Lyndon B. Johnson
Whatever opens opportunity and hope will help to prevent crime and foster responsibility.
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Marcus Garvey
Hungry men have no respect for law, authority or human life.
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Denis Diderot
Anyone who takes it on himself, on his own authority, to break a bad law, thereby authorizes everyone else to break the good ones.
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Hubert Humphrey
There are not enough jails, not enough policemen, not enough courts to enforce a law not supported by the people.
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Errico Malatesta
He who throws a bomb and kills a pedestrian, declares that as a victim of society he has rebelled against society. But could not the poor victim object: "Am I society?"
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Daniel Defoe
Justice is always violent to the offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes.
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Barry Goldwater
Extremism in the pursuit of liberty is no vice. ... Moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
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James A. Garfield
Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
One man's justice is another's injustice; One man's beauty another's ugliness; One man's wisdom another's folly.
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Justice is truth in action.
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Louis Brandeis
Crime is contagious.
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W. E. B. Du Bois
The chief problem in any community cursed with crime is not the punishment of the criminal, but the preventing of the young from being trained to crime.
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