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“If one can't be a great artist or a great soldier, the next best thing is to be a great criminal.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, “This Side of Paradise” - 1920

“Most people lived their lives like criminals: act first, worry about the consequences later.” Nicholas Sparks, “The Lucky One” - 2008

“In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.” George Orwell, “1984” - 1949

“Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.” Oscar Wilde, “Intentions” - 1891

“would not one tiny crime be wiped out by thousands of good deeds?” Fyodor Dostoyevsky, “Crime and Punishment” - 1867

“It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery. The most commonplace crime is often the most mysterious because it presents no new or special features from which deductions may be drawn.” Arthur Conan Doyle, “A Study in Scarlet” - 1887

“Ingratitude is among them a capital crime, as we read it to have been in some other countries: for they reason thus; that whoever makes ill returns to his benefactor, must needs be a common enemy to the rest of mankind, from whom he has received...” Jonathan Swift, “Gulliver's Travels” - 1726

“But, as often happens, a crime committed with extraordinary audacity is more successful than others.” Fyodor Dostoyevsky, “The Brothers Karamazov” - 1880

“It was as if she had been made afresh, out of new elements, and must perforce be permitted to live her own life, and be a law unto herself, without her eccentricities being reckoned to her for a crime.” Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The Scarlet Letter” - 1850

“The death-penalty inflicted upon criminals may be looked on in much the same light: it is in order that we may not fall victims to an assassin that we consent to die if we ourselves turn assassins.” Jean-Jacques Rousseau, “The Social Contract” - 1762

“In a well-governed State, there are few punishments, not because there are many pardons, but because criminals are rare; it is when a State is in decay that the multitude of crimes is a guarantee of impunity.” Jean-Jacques Rousseau, “The Social Contract” - 1762

“I assert most unhesitatingly, that the religion of the south is a mere covering for the most horrid crimes,—a justifier of the most appalling barbarity,—a sanctifier of the most hateful frauds,—and a dark shelter under, which the darkest,...” Frederick Douglass, “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave” - 1845

“The workings of the mind discover oft Dark deeds in darkness schemed, before the act. More hateful still the miscreant who seeks When caught, to make a virtue of a crime.” Sophocles, “Antigone” - c. 441 BC

“AMNESTY, n. The state's magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish.” Ambrose Bierce, “The Devil's Dictionary” - 1911

“He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.” Leonardo da Vinci, “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci” - 1478 – 1519

“How many condemnations have I seen more criminal than the crimes themselves?” Michel de Montaigne, “The Essays of Michel de Montaigne” - 1580

“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, “Getting Even” - 1971

“the more society treats drug addiction as a crime, the more money drug dealers will make 'relieving' the suffering of the addicts.” Jay-Z, “Decoded” - 2010

“DESTINY, n. A tyrant's authority for crime and fool's excuse for failure.” Ambrose Bierce, “The Devil's Dictionary” - 1906

“There was only one guy in the whole Bible Jesus ever personally promised a place with him in Paradise. Not Peter, not Paul, not any of those guys. He was a convicted thief, being executed. So don’t knock the guys on death row. Maybe they know...” Neil Gaiman, “American Gods” - 2001

“The source of every crime, is some defect of the understanding; or some errour in reasoning, or some sudden force of the passions.” Thomas Hobbes, “Leviathan” - 1651

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