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"A new report shows that, in Virginia, gun violence has fallen as the sale of firearms has soared to a new record. In other news, a recent study shows that most criminals don't like getting shot at."
"Far too often we see attention paid to the firearm and not the criminal."
"The need to be cared for is the base of everything. In the penitentiaries, you won't hear gangbangers and criminals say, 'No, I don't want to be cared for by nobody.' When you care about them, they'll open up to you."
"Ordinarily, a person leaving a courtroom with a conviction behind him would wear a somber face. But I left with a smile. I knew that I was a convicted criminal, but I was proud of my crime."
"Danger arouses interest. Where death is involved, the vilest criminal invariably stirs a little compassion."
"Crime is naught but misdirected energy."
"I really feel like the sky is the limit with the Innocent Criminals today."
"Christ's crucifix shall be made an excuse for executing criminals."
"Nothing is so common as the wish to be remarkable.(attributed to)"
"Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass."
"The criminal is trying to solve his immediate problems."
"Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear."
"All the time I'm not writing I feel like a criminal. It's horrible to feel felonious every second of the day. It's much more relaxing to actually write."
"From the standpoint of any sane person, the present problem of capitalist concentration is not only a question of law, but of criminal law, not to mention criminal lunacy."
"If one would discern the centers of dominance in any society, one need only look to its definitions of "virtue" and "vice" or "legal" and "criminal," for, in the strength to set standards, resides the strength to maintain control."
"I know all those people. I have friendly, social, and criminal relations with the whole lot of them."
"It puts limits on criminals' rights to destroy unborn children without the permission of the woman."
"The function of education, therefore, is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. But education which stops with efficiency may prove the greatest menace to society. The most dangerous criminal may be the man gifted with reason, but with no morals."
"How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!"
"Publishers are notoriously slothful about numbers, unless they're attached to dollar signs - unlike journalists, quarterbacks, and felony criminal defendants who tend to be keenly aware of numbers at all times."
