Crime Quotes

The number of malefactors authorizes not the crime.

I don’t worry about crime in the streets; it’s the sidewalks I stay off of.

When you stress individualism, as this country does; materialism, as this country does; personal weaponry, as this country does; and racial hatred, which is part of our heritage as white Europeans; and then you add the volatile ingredient of “nothing left to lose,” which we foster through social policy, you will get what America got: […]

All crime is a kind of disease and should be treated as such.

Obviously crime pays, or there’d be no crime.

Why do they put pictures of criminals up in the Post Office? What are we supposed to do, write to them? Why don’t they just put their pictures on the postage stamps so the mailmen can look for them while they deliver the mail?

As some day it may happen that a victim must be found, I’ve got a little list, I’ve got a little list Of society offenders who might well be underground And who never would be missed, who never would be missed!

Have you ever noticed how all newspaper composite pictures of wanted criminals resemble Jesse Jackson?

If hen-stealing prevail to a plainly unendurable extent, will you station police-officers on every hen-roost; and keep them watching and cruising incessantly to and fro over the parish, in the unwholesome dark, at enormous expense, with almost no effect? Or will you not try rather to discover where the fox’s den is, and kill the […]

There was a widely held but unprofessed belief in Mississippi that a good sherrif must be a little crooked to insure law and order. Whiskey whoring and gambling were simply facts of life, and a good sherrif must be knowledgeable in these affairs to properly regulate them and protect the christians. Those vices could not […]