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"The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal."	Erich Fromm
"Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man."	Jean Genet
"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
"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
"Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth ... Truth-telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common: Every single one was a liar."	J(ohn) Edgar Hoover
"Organized crime constitutes nothing less than a guerilla war against society."	Lyndon Baines Johnson
"The world is filled with violence. Because criminals carry guns, we decent law-abiding citizens should also have guns. Otherwise they will win and the decent people will lose."	James Earl Jones
"Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them."	Martin Luther King, Jr.
"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
"It's [the Brady Act] taking manpower and crime-fighting capability off the streets."	Dennis Martin
"Banning gun shows to reduce violent crime will work about as well as banning auto shows to reduce drunken driving."	Bill McIntire
"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
"The head never rules the heart, but just becomes it's partner in crime."	Mignon McLaughlin
"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
"Where it is duty to worship the sun, it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat."	John Morley
"My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music."	Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
"It is no secret that organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year. This is quite a profitable sum, especially when one considers that the Mafia spends very little for office supplies."	Woody Allen
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