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Police always observe that criminals prosper. It takes a pretty dull policeman to miss the fact that the position of authority is the most prosperous criminal position available.
- Frank Herbert
One way to make sure crime doesn't pay would be to let the government run it.
- Ronald Reagan
What else is the electric chair or lethal injection than human sacrifice?
- Madeleine L'Engle
For nothing is more dangerous than to live where the public license of crime prevails; yea, there is no pestilence so destructive, as that corruption of morals, which is opposed neither by laws nor judgments, nor any other remedies.
- John Calvin
Any government that supports, protects or harbours terrorists is complicit in the murder of the innocent and equally guilty of terrorist crimes.
- George W. Bush
Wouldn't you want to be indicted by the govenment for a high crime? It's a great thrill. It's an honor. It's a compliment. It's fun. I'm enjoying every minute of it!
- Abbie Hoffman
For the criminal who is weak and poor the narrow cell of death awaits; but honor and glory await the rich who conceal their crimes behind their gold and silver and inherited glory.
- Khalil Gibran
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
- Aesop
Technological progress is like an ax in the hands of a pathological criminal.
- Albert Einstein
When you go to your local police officer, your police chief in the town you live in, big or small, he will tell you the vast majority of the weapons recovered at a crime scene are either stolen weapons, and/or they have been 'lost' or stolen.
- Joe Biden
Authority can be faked. That's why impersonating a police officer is a crime. Sometimes the outward appearances of authority can be deceiving.
- John Ortberg
Righteous indignation is the alibi of mobs and murderers.
- Richard Paul Evans