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“Why are drugs so profitable? Essentially, many argue, it’s because they are illegal. By making drugs a criminal enterprise, it creates an enormous black market economy where drugs fetch far greater prices than they would if legal.”

Ifs Black Economy Greater Drug Criminals Arguing Enormous Enterprise Illegal Profitable Market Economy Fetch

Author:James Morcan

“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.”

Men Has Beens Done Lying Virtue Greater Worst Bounds Vices Insight Criminals Secure Mediocrity Approval Conventional

Book:Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion

“If Americans actually have the conversation about our disastrous prison policies, we'll understand the trends all move in very dangerous directions: we lock up more people, for less violent crime, at ever greater expense, breeding more dangerous criminals who often come out unemployable, violent and isiolated.”

People Ifs Moving Greater Dangerous Crime Policy Conversation Prison Criminals Violent Expenses Trends Locks Breeding Violent Crimes Lock Up

Author:Dahlia Lithwick

“To organize work in such a manner that it becomes meaningless, boring, stultifying, or nerve-racking for the worker would be little short of criminal; it would indicate a greater concern with goods than with people, an evil lack of compassion and a soul-destroying degree of attachment to the most primitive side of this worldly existence.”

Source: SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL

“I never knew a critic who made it his business to lash the faults of other writers that was not guilty of greater himself--as the hangman is generally a worse malefactor than the criminal that suffers by his hand.”

Made Hands Suffering Greater Faults Critics Criminals Guilty Made It Lashes Not Guilty Hangman

Book:The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison

Source: The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison

“By far the greater part of violence that humans inflicted on each other is not the work of criminals or mentally deranged, but of normal, respectable citizens service of the collective ego. One can go so far as to say that on this planet "normal" equals insane. What is it that lies at the root of this insanity? Complete identification with thought and emotion, that is to say, ego.”

Humans Lying Emotion Greater Violence Planets Citizens Ego Normal Roots Criminals Insane Insanity Collectives Respectable Identification Deranged Thoughts And Emotions

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“I wish to give officials greater discretion. The State's authority will be increased thereby. I wish to transform the non-political criminal police into a political instrument of the highest State authority.”

Giving States Political Wish Greater Authority Highest Police Instruments Criminals Officials Discretion Non Political

Book:Secret conversations with Hitler: the two newly-discovered 1931 interviews

Source: Secret conversations with Hitler: the two newly-discovered 1931 interviews

“A civilization without insanity, without criminals and without war, where the able can prosper and honest beings can have rights, and where man is free to rise to greater heights, are the aims of Scientology.”

Men War Able Greater Rights Honest Civilization Aim Criminals Insanity Height Scientology Greater Heights

Author:L. Ron Hubbard