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"What then is capital punishment but the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calculated it may be, can be compared For there to be an equivalence, the death penalty would have to punish a criminal, who had warned his victim of the date at which he would inflict a horrible death on him, and who from that moment onward had confined him at his mercy for months. Such a monster is not encountered in private life." »Albert Camus
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"All children are essentially criminal." »Denis Diderot
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"The judge is condemned when the criminal is absolved." »Publilius Syrus
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"Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim." »Bertrand Russell
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"The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal." »Erich Fromm
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"Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal." »Albert Einstein
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"There is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress." »Mark Twain
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"Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal." »Elizabeth Fry, Journal entry
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"The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be reguarded as a criminal offense." »E.W. Dijkstra
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"A criminal is a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation." »Howard Scott, Economist
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"There is nothing in the Constitution that authorizes or makes it the official duty of a president to have anything to do with criminal activities." »Sam James Ervin, Jr.
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"criminal: A person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation." »Howard Scott
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"It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress." »Mark Twain
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"criminal A person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation." »Howard Scott
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"It could probably be show by facts and figures that there is no distinctively native American criminal class except Congress." »Mark Twain
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"More and more I come to value charity and love of one's fellow being above everything else... All our lauded technological progress--our very civilization--is like the axe in the hand of the pathological criminal." »Albert Einstein
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"Ignorance, when voluntary, is criminal, and a man may be properly charged with that evil which he neglected or refused to learn how to prevent." »Johnson
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"I don't like the idea that the police department seems bent on keeping a pool of unarmed victims available for the predations of the criminal class." »David Mohler
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"We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world and its efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read." »Mark Twain
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"What a crazy world we live in Trying to treat addiction as a legal problem, and trying to treat criminal misbehaviors using guns as a medical problem Beam me up, Scotty. Ain't no intelligent life down here." »Julie Cochrane
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"If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane." »Robert Green Ingersoll
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"No matter how one approaches the figures, one is forced to the rather startling conclusion that the use of firearms in crime was very much less when there were no controls of any sort and when anyone, convicted criminal or lunatic, could buy any type of firearm without restriction. Half a century of strict controls on pistols has ended, perversely, with a far greater use of this weapon in crime than ever before." »Colin Greenwood
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"I hold a creed, which no one ever taught me, and which I seldon mention, but in which I delight, and to which I cling, for it extends hope to all; it makes eternity a rest - a mighty home - not a terror and an abyss. With this creed, I can so clearly distinguish between the criminal and his crime, I can so sincerly forgive the first while I abhor the last; with this creed, revenge never worries my heart, degredation never too deeply disgusts me, injustice bever crushes me too low; I live in calm, looking to the end." »Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, page 62
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"As long as Nazi violence was unleashed only, or mainly, against the Jews, the rest of the world looked on passively and even treaties and agreements were made with the patently criminal government of the Third Reich.... The doors of Palestine were closed to Jewish immigrants, and no country could be found that would admit those forsaken people. They were left to perish like their brothers and sisters in the occupied countries. We shall never forget the heroic efforts of the small countries, of the Scandinavian, the Dutch, the Swiss nations, and of individuals in the occupied part of Europe who did all in their power to protect Jewish lives." »Albert Einstein
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"Existence, as we know it, is full of sorrow. To mention only one minor point every man is a condemned criminal, only he does not know the date of his execution. This is unpleasant for every man. Consequently every man does everything possible to postpone the date, and would sacrifice anything that he has if he could reverse the sentence. Practically all religions and all philosophies have started thus crudely, by promising their adherents some such reward as immortality. No religion has failed hitherto by not promising enough the present breaking up of all religions is due to the fact that people have asked to see the securities. Men have even renounced the important material advantages which a well-organized religion may confer upon a State, rather than acquiesce in fraud or falsehood, or even in any system which, if not proved guilty, is at least unable to demonstrate its innocence. Being more or less bankrupt, the best thing that we can do is to attack the problem afresh without preconceived ideas. Let us begin by doubting every statement. Let us find a way of subjecting every statement to the test of experiment. Is there any truth at all in the claims of various religions Let us examine the question." »Aleister Crowley
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