Crime And Criminals Quotes by Maximilien Robespierre, Napoleon Bonaparte, E. W. Howe, H. L. Mencken, Daniel J. Boorstin, Virgil and many others.
Crime butchers innocence to secure a throne, and innocence struggles with all its might against the attempts of crime.
The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.
Many a man is saved from being a thief by finding everything locked up.
The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
The world of crime is a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event.
From a single crime know the nation.
No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been.
Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit.
Crime is a fact of the human species, a fact of that species alone, but it is above all the secret aspect, impenetrable and hidden. Crime hides, and by far the most terrifying things are those which elude us.
He that is robbed, not wanting what is stolen, him not know t, and he’s not robbed at all.
Crime is naught but misdirected energy.
Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.
We don’t seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business?
The study of crime begins with the knowledge of oneself. All that you despise, all that you loathe, all that you reject, all that you condemn and seek to convert by punishment springs from you.
To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace
As one reads history … one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted.
A crime persevered in a thousand centuries ceases to be a crime, and becomes a virtue. This is the law of custom, and custom supersedes all other forms of law.
