This man, although he may not actually have committed the crime attributed to him, is nevertheless morally culpable, because he is the enemy of our existing institutions. (Massachusetts judge, of Nicola Sacco, accused of armed robbery, 1920)
Crime Quotes
Don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time.
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 […]
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.
If the truth be known, we are on the verge of losing an entire generation of our young people, killing and dying in the streets of America.
Organized crime constitutes nothing less than a guerrilla war against society.
Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.
What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.
To equal robbery with murder is to reduce murder to robbery, to confound in common minds the gradations of iniquity, and incite the commission of a greater crime to prevent the detection of a less. If only murder were punished with death, very few robbers would stain their hands in blood; but when by the […]
