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“We wanted to describe society from our left point of view. Per had written political books, but they'd only sold 300 copies. We realised that people read crime and through the stories we could show the reader that under the official image of welfare-state Sweden there was another layer of poverty, criminality and brutality.”

People Book States Stories Shows Wanted Political Left Views Poverty Written Crime Reader Point Of View Welfare Officials Copies Layers Realised Brutality Sweden Welfare State Criminality

Author:Maj Sjowall

“The crimes committed by the North Vietnamese regime against the Vietnamese people were minor compared to the crimes committed by the Khmer Rouge against the Cambodians, but for us on the left they were emotionally far more significant.”

People Left Crime Committed Significant Regimes Minors Vietnamese Rouge Khmer Rouge

Author:James Donald

“Nothing that is not a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency, especially when it regards religion or party. In either of these cases, though a man perhaps does but his duty in changing his side, he not only makes himself hated by those he left, but is seldom heartily esteemed by those he comes over to.”

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Book:The spectator

Source: The spectator

“A lot is said, by foreigners and the left, about America being a violent society. Yet if you subtract the crime statistics for its largest cities places that have been under the strict political control of so-called "progressives", sometimes for many generations what remains, the real America, is the most peaceful, productive, prosperous, and truly progressive civilization in all of human history.”

“Neurotics, who cause less distress to themselves and their neighbours than those in the other category, are at war with their own natures. Their right hands are in conflict with their left. Psychotics, and it is those who commit purposeless crimes and prefer death to life, are at war with their environment. Right and left hands strike against the womb that carries them.”

War Hands Left Causes Psychology Environment Crime Conflict Strikes Commit Carrie Categories Distress Womb Neighbour Left Hand

Book:The meaning of treason

Source: The meaning of treason

“It's not the best between my family and me. There are so many crimes left unpunished, debts unpaid, white elephants in the middle of the room that no one will even offer a peanut to. We are in the red, emotionally speaking.”

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Book:I Have Chosen to Stay and Fight

Source: I Have Chosen to Stay and Fight

“I prophesy in the name of the Lord God of Israel, unless the United States redress the wrongs committed upon the Saints in the state of Missouri and punish the crimes committed by her officers that in a few years the government will be utterly overthrown and wasted, and there will not be so much as a potsherd left . . .”

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Author:Joseph Smith, Jr.

“The criminal left belongs not in a dormitory, but in a penitentiary.”

Left Crime Criminals Punishment Dormitory

Book:The real Spiro Agnew: commonsense quotations of a household word

Source: The real Spiro Agnew: commonsense quotations of a household word

“Morality is a burglar's tool whose merit lies in never being left behind at the scene of the crime.”

Lying Left Behinds Crime Morality Scene Tools Merit Left Behind Burglars

Book:Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms

Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms