“To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace”

— Malcolm X

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American human rights activist 1925–1965

Luiz Carlos Alborghetti (1945–2009) Italian-Brazilian radio commenter, showman and political figure

Original: (pt) Bandido é bandido, malandragem! E bandido você tem que mandar matar!

(pt) Source: [9 December 2009, Morre Luiz Carlos Alborghetti, dono do bordão 'bandido bom é bandido morto', https://extra.globo.com/tv-e-lazer/morre-luiz-carlos-alborghetti-dono-do-bordao-bandido-bom-bandido-morto-209786.html, Portuguese, Extra, Editora Globo S/A, 31 March 2019]

“It is quite normal to be racist, but it is criminal to remain one.”

Pierre Bourgault (1934–2003) Canadian politician

Il est presque normal d'être raciste, mais il est criminel de le demeurer.
La Culture. Écrits polémiques. Lanctôt Éditeur, 1996 p.297, tome 2

“Those terrorists will carry their determination to disrupt society to any lengths. Once again we have a hunger strike at the Maze Prison in the quest for what they call political status. There is no such thing as political murder, political bombing or political violence. There is only criminal murder, criminal bombing and criminal violence. We will not compromise on this. There will be no political status.”

Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013) British stateswoman and politician

Speech in Belfast (5 March 1981) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/104589
First term as Prime Minister

“The criminalization of debt was the criminalization of the very basis of human society.”

David Graeber (1961) American anthropologist and anarchist

Source: Debt: The First 5,000 Years (2011), Chapter Eleven, "Age of the Great Capitalist Empires", p. 334

“I sincerely believe that I have served a criminal. I led my soldiers in good conscience… but for a criminal government.”

Walter Model (1891–1945) German field marshal

To Colonel Theodor Pilling, Lieutenant Colonel Roger Michael, Major Winrich Behr in the evening of April 20, 1945. They tuned in the Wehrmacht receiver, and listened Joseph Goebbels's speech marking the Hitler's Birthday. Quoted in "Battle for the Ruhr" - Page 378 - by Derek S. Zumbro - 2006

“So I was still guilty. And if I was not guilty because one cannot be guilty of betraying a criminal, then I was guilty of having loved a criminal.”

Bernhard Schlink book The Reader

Source: The Reader

“The category of 'criminal' (according to incontrovertibly correct libertarian political theory) entails the outlaw criminal class—it needs no introduction—and the legalized criminal class: the politicians.”

Ilana Mercer South African writer

"Jihad's Triumph On Westminster Bridge" https://townhall.com/columnists/ilanamercer/2017/03/30/jihads-triumph-on-westminster-bridge-n2306480 Townhall.com, March 30, 2017
2010s, 2017

“To secure approval one must remain within the bounds of conventional mediocrity. Whatever lies beyond, whether it be greater insight and virtue, or greater stolidity and vice, is condemned. The noblest men, like the worst criminals, have been done to death.”

John Lancaster Spalding (1840–1916) Catholic bishop

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 196

“The law punishes the criminal after he has been successful: it is no use to us.”

John Wyndham book The Midwich Cuckoos

The Midwich Cuckoos (1957), ch 18 - p.182 [Eric]

“Government is, and always has been, the greatest criminal threat to the peaceful members of society.”

Richard Ebeling (1950) American economist

Jacob G. Hornberger, editor, The Tyranny of Gun Control, “Introduction,” Fairfax, VA, Future of Freedom Foundation (FFF), (1997) p. xii

“To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace”

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