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"Police not enforcing laws results in a high crime rate that is formally reported as a low crime rate in police statistics."

"If you let loose a law, it willdo as a dog does. It will obey its own nature, not yours. Suchsense as you have put into the law (or the dog) will be fulfilled.But you will not be able to fulfil a fragment of anything you haveforgotten to put into it."

"Understand now, I'm purely a fiction writer and do not profess to be an earnest student of political science, but I believe strongly that such a law as one prohibiting liquor is foolish, and all the writers, keenly interested in human welfare whom I know, laugh at the prohibition law."

"The law. Lady Frances, is an uncertain animal. It has twists and turns that surprise the non-legal mind."

"My biggest problem is that my flight is to depart from Denpasar International Airport in Indonesia, where the penalty for drug trafficking is death by firing squad."

"The universal law is very simple, but we look at it in a complex way."

"The police frequently do not enforce the rule of law."
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"The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds."

"Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime."

"The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority."

"One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say."

"The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers."
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