"Every single human being is a unique human being. And, therefore, it's so criminal to do something to that human being, because he or she represents humanity."
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"Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves."
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"The more laws that are written, the more criminals are produced."
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"They [the Reagan Administration] want to put street criminals in jail to make life safer for the business criminals. They're against street crime, providing that street isn't Wall Street."
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"It is not the criminal things which are hardest to confess, but the ridiculous and shameful."
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"Laws directed against opinions affect the generous-minded rather than the wicked, and are adapted less for coercing criminals than for irritating the upright."
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"Oh, he was probably a member of the National Rifle Association. It was a group that helped criminals get guns so they could shoot citizens. It was a public service."
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"If anybody ever dares to compare Bob Dole to Clinton, then they're comparing a criminal to an honest man."
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"A century from now it will no more occur to a normal person to mate with a person eugenically unfit than to marry a habitual criminal."
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"What really raises one's indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering"
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"A judge who cannot punish, in the end associates themselves with the criminal."
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"A criminal who, having renounced reason ... hath, by the unjust violence and slaughter he hath committed upon one, declared war against all mankind, and therefore may be destroyed as a lion or tiger, one of those wild savage beasts with whom men can have no society nor security."
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"We cannot say that if a child is badly nourished he will become a criminal. We must see what conclusion the child has drawn."
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"It might be pardonable to refuse to defend some men, but to defend them negligently is nothing short of criminal."
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"The kind of violence, looting, destruction that we saw from a handful of individuals in Baltimore, there's no excuse for that. That's not a statement. That's not politics. That's not activism. That's just criminal behavior."
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"All children are essentially criminal."
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"A criminal remains a criminal whether he uses a convict's suit or a monarch's crown."
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"To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace"
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"If it is a Miracle, any sort of evidence will answer, but if it is a Fact, proof is necessary"
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"Since the state must necessarily provide subsistence for the criminal poor while undergoing punishment, not to do the same for the poor who have not offended is to give a premium on crime."
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