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"Crime butchers innocence to secure a throne, and innocence struggles with all its might against the attempts of crime."
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"The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless."

"Once again, off this skinny prick of a copper went. BANG! SLAP! PUNCH! It was more like a Batman movie! He could hit me all night, but it wouldn't make any difference."

"I guess having one hundred and four condoms full of heroin in your guts and the thought of a firing squad in your head make will make most things seem insignificant."

"They think giving people longer prison sentences is going to teach people a lesson. Well that is just fantasy, as we just take our drugs and violence in to the prison. Our brothers and sisters, pals or rivals outside plug the gap that has been left by the dealer that was selling the crack or smack in the first place. Just like kamikazes, when one is dead, fifty queue up to take their place."

"The doctor seemed especially troubled by the fact of the robbery having been unexpected, and attempted in the night-time; as if it were the established custom of gentlemen in the housebreaking way to transact business at noon, and to make an appointment, by the twopenny post, a day or two previous."

"On general principles it is best that I should not leave the country. Scotland Yard feels lonely without me, and it causes an unhealthy excitement among the criminal classes."

"As a rule, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify."

"All day we've witnessed each other's crimes. You killed no one today? But how many did you leave to die?"
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"Any law which violates the inalienable rights of man is essentially unjust and tyrannical; it is not a law at all."

"Atheism is aristocratic; the idea of a great Being that watches over oppressed innocence and punishes triumphant crime is altogether popular."

"Any institution which does not suppose the people good, and the magistrate corruptible, is evil."

"Again, it may be said, that to love justice and equality the people need no great effort of virtue; it is sufficient that they love themselves."

"The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant."

"Crime butchers innocence to secure a throne, and innocence struggles with all its might against the attempts of crime."
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