Fiction, A Clockwork Orange (1962)
“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
“A criminal is a criminal, street-smarts! And a criminal you gotta have to kill!”
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]
Jack Kevorkian (1928–2011) American pathologist, euthanasia activist
Quoted in "Between the dying and the dead: Dr. Jack Kevorkian's life and the battle to Legalize Euthanasia" - Page 247 - by Neal Nicol, Harry Wylie - 2006
2000s, 2006
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 <br class="br">2010s, 2017
Julius Malema (1981) South African political activist
On 4 March 2018, at the launch of the EFF's election registration campaign, Standard Bank arena, Johannesburg. As quoted by Bonolo Selebano in DA is a typical bully – Malema https://www.pressreader.com/south-africa/the-new-age-free-state/20180305/281698320249805, The New Age (Free State) (5 March 2018)
Jomo Kenyatta (1893–1978) First prime minister and first president of Kenya
(1974) cited by David Crystal, "English as a Global Language" (2003), Cambridge University Press, ISBN 9780521530323, p. 124.
“Whether a man is a criminal or a public servant is purely a matter of perspective.”
Tom Robbins book Another Roadside Attraction
Source: Another Roadside Attraction (1971)
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
“Thus the killing of a god may sometimes come to be confounded with the execution of a criminal.”
James Frazer book The Golden Bough
Source: The Golden Bough (1890), Chapter 57, Public Scapegoats
Context: For when a nation becomes civilized, if it does not drop human sacrifices altogether, it at least selects as victims only such wretches as would be put to death at any rate. Thus the killing of a god may sometimes come to be confounded with the execution of a criminal.
