"She must be assured that it is not a criminal offense to love at first sight."
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"The criminal is not alone when he returns to the scene of the crime; he is joined there by his victim, and both are driven by the same curiosity: to relive that moment which stamped past and future for each."
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"Morality and its victim, the mother - what a terrible picture! Is there indeed anything more terrible, more criminal, than our glorified sacred function of motherhood?"
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"atrophy of feeling creates criminals."
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"The right of a nation to determine its own form of government does not include the right to establish a slave society (that is, to legalize the enslavement of some men by others). There is no such thing as "the right to enslave." A nation can do it, just as a man can become a criminal- but neither can do it by right."
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"Ignorance, when it is voluntary, is criminal; and he may be properly charged with evil who refused to learn how he might prevent it."
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"The magnitude of the punishment matches the magnitude of the sin. Now a sin that is against God is infinite; the higher the person against whom it is committed, the graver the sin-it is more criminal to strike a head of state than a private citizen-and God is of infinite greatness. Therefore an infinite punishment is deserved for a sin committed against Him."
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"I've been lucky-my looks haven't put me into one category. I don't look like a blue blood. I don't look like a criminal. I don't look like anything."
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"Nobody can really compare a relationship in which the victim is 15 years old to one where she's 6. While both criminal, they're very different circumstances."
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"Truth suffers no loss if a vehement youth fails in finding it, in the same way that virtue and religion suffer no detriment if a criminal denies them."
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"It is not our criminal actions that require courage to confess, but those which are ridiculous and foolish."
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"Too much virtue can be criminal."
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"Evading responsibility can lead to a life long pattern of criminal behavior."
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"We've got fifty people at Gitmo that are too dangerous to be let go that will never go through a normal criminal trial. Let's create a new legal system, so they'll have their day in court."
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"The bourgeois today burns as heretics and hangs as criminals those to whom he erects monuments tomorrow."
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"You have to steal a lot. You have to have a criminal mentality to be a film director."
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"Criminals interest me, because they're driven by the same desires as we are, but they take these disastrous shortcuts and end up in a real mess."
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"As there is a use in medicine for poisons, so the world cannot move without rogues."
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"A satyagrahi would neither retaliate nor would he submit to the criminal, but seek to cure him by curing himself."
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"Police are inevitably corrupted. ... Police always observe that criminals prosper. It takes a pretty dull policeman to miss the fact that the position of authority is the most prosperous criminal position available."
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