"Art is rarely intelligible to the criminal classes."
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"I was made, by the law, a criminal, not because of what I had done, but because of what I stood for, because of what I thought, because of my conscience... If I had my time over I would do the same again. So would any man who dares call himself a man."
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"The most wicked criminals have God on their lips at all times, for God is the only one who can stomach them."
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"The criminal law is no use to decent people."
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"Sex criminals. Completely incurable... I suppose you could outlaw religion and these sex crimes would disappear in a generation or two, but we don't have time for rational solutions."
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"I really haven't seen this many people in one place since they took group photographs of all the criminals and lawbreakers in the Ronald Reagan administration."
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"Of course we're Criminals"
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"Hollywood no longer depicts reporters in ruthless pursuit of criminals, high and low. Now they are the criminals."
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"What a joke! Poor little rich girl's fallen in love with the Republic's most famous criminal."
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"Let experience solve it. To listen to mere speculation in such a case were criminal."
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"Jay Carney, whose unenviable job is not to explain but to explain away what his employers say, calls the IRS’s behavior “inappropriate. ” No, using the salad fork for the entree is inappropriate. Using the Internal Revenue Service for political purposes is a criminal offense."
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"A large part of the left is pro-Assad. In those circles, you can't criticize Assad, but you know he's a monstrous war criminal. And anyone who criticizes Assad is joining the US imperialists. That's just ludicrous."
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"When the true criminals are running around free, the only honorable place for a decent human being is in prisons."
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"The criminal is quite frequently not equal to his deed: he belittles and slanders it."
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"The advocates of a criminal are seldom artists enough to turn the beautiful terribleness of the deed to the advantage of the doer."
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"Our crime against criminals lies in the fact that we treat them like rascals."
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"The criminal type is the type of the strong human being under unfavorable circumstances: a strong human being made sick."
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"Be quiet! Anyone can spit in my face, and call me a criminal and a prostitute. But no one has the right to judge my remorse."
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"We’re being ripped off and screwed by a bunch of liars, thieves, crooks, and criminals, and they’re not the folks below. Don’t look in the streets, look in the corporate suites."
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"Look at the whole criminal correction game, which is a big piece of our economy. It's just an invention. Crime is being invented to put people to work."
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