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Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law.
Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law.
Organized crime constitutes nothing less than a guerilla war against society.
Organized crime constitutes nothing less than a guerilla war against society.
 Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our 
inclination.
 [Lat., Factis ignoscite nostris
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 Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our 
inclination.
 [Lat., Factis ignoscite nostris
  Si scelus ingenio scitis abesse meo.] 
 Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime.
 [It., Oh! ben provvide il cielo,
  Ch' read more 
 Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime.
 [It., Oh! ben provvide il cielo,
  Ch' uom per delitto mai lieto non sia.] 
Every crime destroys more Edens than our own.
Every crime destroys more Edens than our own.
 I realized I had been paying hit men to slaughter
cows for my table... and I stopped, but not for read more 
 I realized I had been paying hit men to slaughter
cows for my table... and I stopped, but not for 6 months
in which I rationalized. 
Crime is a product of social excess.
Crime is a product of social excess.
He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.
He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.
Whenever man commits a crime heaven finds a witness.
Whenever man commits a crime heaven finds a witness.