"Penalties serve to deter those who are not inclined to commit any crimes."
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"No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes."
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"We are extricating ourselves from a system that insulted our common humanity by dividing us from one another on the basis of race and setting us against each other as oppressed and oppressor. That system committed a crime against humanity."
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"The real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community of mankind."
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"Small crimes always precedes great ones."
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"The secret of a great success for which you are at a loss to account is a crime that has never been found out, because it was properly executed."
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"Crime is naught but misdirected energy."
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"The danger chiefly lies in acting well; no crime's so great as daring to excel."
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"I'm sure anyone who likes a good crime, provided it is not the victim."
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"The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless."
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"The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves."
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"Isn't all mankind ultimately executed for a crime it never committed?"
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"to teach without zest is a crime."
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"Society had a crime problem. It hired cops to attack crime. Now society has a cop problem."
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"The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes."
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"The expansion and sophistication of transnational crime represents one of the most dangerous threats we confront in the next millennium."
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"Collective crimes incriminate no one."
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"We easily forget crimes that are known to none but ourselves."
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"How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!"
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"If crime and disease are to be regarded as the same thing, it follows that any state of mind which our masters choose to call 'disease' can be treated as a crime and compulsorily cured."
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