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"What then is capital punishment but the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calculated it may be, can be compared? For there to be an equivalence, the death penalty would have to punish a criminal, who had warned his victim of the date at which he would inflict a horrible death on him, and who from that moment onward had confined him at his mercy for months. Such a monster is not encountered in private life."	Albert Camus
"How many crimes are committed simply because their authors could not endure being wrong."	Albert Camus
"More and more I come to value charity and love of one's fellow being above everything else... All our lauded technological progress--our very civilization--is like the axe in the hand of the pathological criminal."	Albert Einstein
"Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal."	Albert Einstein
"As long as Nazi violence was unleashed only, or mainly, against the Jews, the rest of the world looked on passively and even treaties and agreements were made with the patently criminal government of the Third Reich.... The doors of Palestine were closed to Jewish immigrants, and no country could be found that would admit those forsaken people. They were left to perish like their brothers and sisters in the occupied countries. We shall never forget the heroic efforts of the small countries, of the Scandinavian, the Dutch, the Swiss nations, and of individuals in the occupied part of Europe who did all in their power to protect Jewish lives."	Albert Einstein
"Existence, as we know it, is full of sorrow. To mention only one minor point: every man is a condemned criminal, only he does not know the date of his execution. This is unpleasant for every man. Consequently every man does everything possible to postpone the date, and would sacrifice anything that he has if he could reverse the sentence. Practically all religions and all philosophies have started thus crudely, by promising their adherents some such reward as immortality. No religion has failed hitherto by not promising enough; the present breaking up of all religions is due to the fact that people have asked to see the securities. Men have even renounced the important material advantages which a well-organized religion may confer upon a State, rather than acquiesce in fraud or falsehood, or even in any system which, if not proved guilty, is at least unable to demonstrate its innocence. Being more or less bankrupt, the best thing that we can do is to attack the problem afresh without preconceived ideas. Let us begin by doubting every statement. Let us find a way of subjecting every statement to the test of experiment. Is there any truth at all in the claims of various religions? Let us examine the question."	Aleister Crowley
"Those who would administer wisely must, indeed, be wise, for one of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity."	Andrew Carnegie
"If you believe that discrimination exists, it will."	Anthony J. D'Angelo
"Banning gun shows to reduce violent crime will work about as well as banning auto shows to reduce drunken driving."	Bill McIntire
"It does no harm just once in a while to acknowledge that the whole country isn't in flames, that there are people in the country besides politicians, entertainers, and criminals."	Charles Kuralt
"In none of the cases examined in this study was the existence of these [gun registration] records of any assistance in detecting a crime and no one questioned during the course of this study could offer any evidence to establish the value of the system of registering weapons."	Colin Greenwood
"No matter how one approaches the figures, one is forced to the rather startling conclusion that the use of firearms in crime was very much less when there were no controls of any sort and when anyone, convicted criminal or lunatic, could buy any type of firearm without restriction. Half a century of strict controls on pistols has ended, perversely, with a far greater use of this weapon in crime than ever before."	Colin Greenwood
"I don't like the idea that the police department seems bent on keeping a pool of unarmed victims available for the predations of the criminal class."	David Mohler
"It's [the Brady Act] taking manpower and crime-fighting capability off the streets."	Dennis Martin
"If God kills, lies, cheats, discriminates, and otherwise behaves in a manner that puts the Mafia to shame, that's Okay, he's God. He can do whatever he wants. Anyone who adheres to this philosophy has had his sense of morality, decency, justice and humaneness warped beyond recognition by the very book that is supposedly preaching the opposite."	Dennis McKinsey
"History … is, indeed, little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind."	Edward Gibbon
"The strongest bulwark of authority is uniformity; the least divergence from it is the greatest crime."	Emma Goldman
"The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal."	Erich Fromm
"Surely a tired woman on her way to work at six in the morning on a subway deserves the right to get there safely . everyone who changes his or her life because of crime . have been denied a basic civil right."	George Herbert Walker Bush
"When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues."	Honoré de Balzac
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Emma Goldman	Erich Fromm	George Herbert Walker Bush
Honoré de Balzac	James Earl Jones	Jean Genet
Jefferson Davis	John Morley	J(ohn) Edgar Hoover
Lowell Duckett	Lyndon Baines Johnson	Margot Asquith
Marion Shepilov Barry, Jr.	Marquis de Sade	Martin Luther King, Jr.
Mignon McLaughlin	Sam(uel) James Ervin, Jr.	Sir Walter Besant
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov	Woody Allen