Quotes 141 till 160 of 254.
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One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.
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One way or the other, we are determined to deny Iraq the capacity to develop weapons of mass destruction and the missiles to deliver them. That is our bottom line.
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Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year. This is quite a profitable sum, especially when one consider that the Mafia spends very little for office supplies.
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Our failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq thus far has been deeply troubling, and our intelligence-gathering process needs thorough and unbiased investigation.
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Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.
Wolkenatlas (2008) -
People have told me about organized crime in the fashion industry, but I can't talk about that. I'm looking to stay alive.
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Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.
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Religion teaches you to be satisfied with nonanswers. It's a sort of crime against childhood.
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Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an excuse for persecution, and our profoundest scientific insight is made into a means of mass destruction.
Last Philosophical Testament: 1943-68 -
Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself.
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Scandinavian crime fiction has become a great success all across the world and rightfully so. Sjowall and Wahloo ushered in a whole generation of Swedish crime writers, many of whom are now available in English.
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Self-determination, the autonomy of the individual, asserts itself in the right to race his automobile, to handle his power tools, to buy a gun, to communicate to mass audiences his opinion, no matter how ignorant, how aggressive, it may be.
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Slums may well be breeding-grounds of crime, but middle-class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium.
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Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.
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Society secretly delights in crime, excesses, and violated prohibitions of all sorts.
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Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.
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Some people act as though art that is for a mass audience is not good art, and I think this has been a very negative thing. I know that I have wanted very much to write books that are accessible to the widest audience possible.
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