A nation is no better than its charlatans.
Crime Quotes
The thief is no danger to the beggar.
Success consecrates the foulest crimes.
A little stealing is a dangerous part, But stealing largely is a noble art; ‘Tis mean to rob a hen roost, or a hen, But stealing thousands makes us gentlemen.
For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ. (Hamlet)
The informer is the worst rogue of the two.
Didst thou never hear – That things ill got had ever bad success? And happy always was it for that son Whose father for his hoarding went to hell? (Henry VI)
Crime wouldn’t pay if the government ran it.
And who are the greater criminals – those who sell the instruments of death, or those who buy them and use them?
Crime, like disease, is not interesting; it is something to be done away with by general consent, and that is all about it.
