Certainly it is absurd to say that a man who has been taken three or four times running in crimes of violence deserves another chance. In many a case he has had half a dozen chances. Society simply can’t endure criminals who stand ready at all times to butcher innocent people for gain… I agree […]
Crime Quotes
We enact many laws that manufacture criminals, and then a few that punish them.
It is wit to pick a lock, and steal a horse, but wisdom to let it alone.
The objection to sterilizing criminals is mainly theological, and hence irrational… Certainly the chances that he will produce criminal children are sufficiently strong to justify subjecting him to the trivial injury and inconvenience of sterilization. On the one hand the sentimentalists argue that crime is a disease, and on the other hand they deny that […]
The kingly office is entitled to no respect. It was originally procured by the highwayman’s methods; it remains a perpetuated crime, can never be anything but the symbol of a crime. It is no more entitled to respect than is the flag of a pirate.
The greater the man, the greater the crime.
Crime is an overhead you have to pay if you want to live in the city.
Fear follows crime, and is its punishment.
There is a black sheep in every flock.
The greatest crimes are to associate another with God, to vex your father and mother, to murder your own species, to commit suicide, and to swear to lie.
