"Crime is only the retail department of what, in wholesale, we call penal law."
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"When commenting on the turmoil and disorder of the world, If the other planets are inhabited, they must be using this earth as their insane asylum."
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"The Jews generally give value. They make you pay; but they deliver the goods. In my experience the men who want something for nothing are invariably Christians."
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"The early Christian rules of life were not made to last, because the early Christians did not believe that the world itself was going to last."
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"Such poverty as we have today in all our great cities degrades the poor, and infects with its degradation the whole neighborhood in which they live. And whatever can degrade a neighborhood can degrade a country and a continent and finally the whole civilized world, which is only a large neighborhood."
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"The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier."
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"Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it."
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"It exasperated her to think that the dungeon in which she had languished for so many unhappy years had been unlocked all the time, and that the impulses she had so carefully struggled with and stifled for the sake of keeping well with society, were precisely those by which alone she could have come into any sort of sincere human contact."
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"Freedom, my good girl, means being able to count on how other people will behave."
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"The camera can represent flesh so superbly that, if I dared, I would never photograph a figure without asking that figure to take its clothes off."
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"With the exception of capitalism, there is nothing so revolting as revolution."
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"Brains are not everything."
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"Nobody supposes that doctors are less virtuous than judges; but a judge whose salary and reputation depended on whether the verdict was for plaintiff or defendant, prosecutor or prisoner, would be as little trusted as a general in the pay of the enemy."
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"Set me anything to do as a task, and it is inconceivable the desire I have to do something else."
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"Those who are looking for paradise on Earth should come and see Dubrovnik."
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"Our laws make law impossible; our liberties destroy all freedom; our property is organized robbery; our morality an impudent hypocrisy; our wisdom is administered by inexperienced or mal-experienced dupes; our power wielded by cowards and weaklings; and our honour false in all its points. I am an enemy of the existing order for good reasons"
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"We're human beings we are - all of us - and that's what people are liable to forget. Human beings don't like peace and goodwill and everybody loving everybody else. However much they may think they do, they don't really because they're not made like that. Human beings love eating and drinking and loving and hating. They also like showing off, grabbing all they can, fighting for their rights and bossing anybody who'll give them half a chance."
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"I hate the poor and look forward eagerly to their extermination."
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"While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal living conditions on this earth?"
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"What is both surprising and delightful is that the spectators are allowed, and even expected, to join in the vocal part of the game...There is no reason why the field should not try to put the batsman off his stroke at the critical moment by neatly timed disparagements of his wife's fidelity and his mother's respectability."
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