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We must always remember that the police are recruited from the criminal classes. — Gore Vidal
When the penalty for a policeman's mistake is to put a criminal back out on the street, then we are hurting America; we are hurting… — Gary Bauer
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,… — Heinrich von Kleist
I would that my photographs might be, not the coverage of a news event, but an indictment of war - the brutal corrupting viciousness of… — W. Eugene Smith
The maker of kitsch does not create inferior art, he is not an incompetent or a bungler, he cannot be evaluated by aesthetic standards; rather,… — Hermann Broch
I did not volunteer for the Waffen SS, but was, as were thousands of my year group, conscripted. I did not then know as a… — Gunter Grass
The actual and potential harm of use of the drug is not great enough to justify intrusion by the criminal law into private behavior, a… — Unknown Author
Youth should learn to think and act as a mass. It is criminal to think as individuals! — Che Guevara
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… — Scott Harshbarger
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… — Karin Slaughter
For the criminal who is weak and poor the narrow cell of death awaits; but honor and glory await the rich who conceal their crimes… — Khalil Gibran
The liberty of the press is indeed essential to the nature of a free state: but this consists in laying no previous restraints upon publications,… — William Blackstone
The Obama administration has had seven criminal leak investigations. That is more than twice the number of any previous administration in our history. It's on… — Jill Abramson
We hunt and fish or we'll go nuts dealing with the criminal behavior of our elected officials. — Ted Nugent
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
It is the invariable habit of bureaucracies, at all times and everywhere, to assume...that every citizen is a criminal. Their one apparent purpose, pursued with… — H. L. Mencken
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… — L. Ron Hubbard
I don't think I'm a criminal, number one. — Kenneth Lay
The last thing I would have ever expected to happen to me in my life would be that, in fact, I would be accused of… — Kenneth Lay
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… — Philip Gourevitch
Letting someone down is not criminal action. — Patrick McHenry
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… — James Ellroy
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… — Vincent Bugliosi
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… — Albert J. Nock
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… — Albert J. Nock

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