We enact many laws that manufacture criminals, and then a few that punish them.
Crime Quotes
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.
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 […]
We are the people our parents warned us about.
Singularity is almost invariably a clue. The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more difficult is it to bring it home.
