“Every society has the criminals it deserves.”
Emma Goldman (1868–1940) anarchist known for her political activism, writing, and speeches
Source: Red Emma Speaks
“A society gets the criminals it deserves.”
Source: Killing the Shadows
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Robert F. Kennedy book The Pursuit of Justice
The Pursuit of Justice http://books.google.com/books?id=o3mHAAAAMAAJ&q=&quot;Every+society+gets+the+kind+of+criminal+it+deserves+What+is+equally+true+is+that+every+community+gets+the+kind+of+law+enforcement+it+insists+on&quot; pt. 3, "Eradicating Free Enterprise in Organized Crime," (1964) <br class="br"> Alexander Lacassange https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandre_Lacassagne Attribution of original quote
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David Graeber (1961) American anthropologist and anarchist
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Alfred de Zayas (1947) American United Nations official
Report of the Independent Expert on the promotion of a democratic and equitable international order on the adverse impacts of free trade and investment agreements on a democratic and equitable international order http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/IntOrder/Pages/Reports.aspx. <br class="br">2015, Report submitted to the UN General Assembly
Donald J. Trump (1946) 45th President of the United States of America
2010s, 2016, August, Speech at rally in Wilmington, North Carolina (August 9, 2016)
“Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.”
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
“The man who gives his own decisions priority over society is a criminal.”
Alfred Bester book The Stars My Destination
Source: The Stars My Destination (1956), Chapter 14 (p. 221).
“Because federal hate crime laws criminalize thoughts, they are incompatible with a free society.”
Ron Paul (1935) American politician and physician
Unconstitutional Legislation Threatens Freedoms, May 7, 2007 freerepublic.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1830822/posts <br class="br">2000s, 2006-2009
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