Crime And Criminals Quotes

The study of crime begins with the knowledge of oneself. All that you despise, all that you loathe, all that you reject, all that you condemn and seek to convert by punishment springs from you.

From a single crime know the nation.

Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit.

A community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurence of crime.

The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.

Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions.

Many a man is saved from being a thief by finding everything locked up.

To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace

Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on.

The study of crime begins with the knowledge of oneself.

Crime is naught but misdirected energy.

A crime persevered in a thousand centuries ceases to be a crime, and becomes a virtue. This is the law of custom, and custom supersedes all other forms of law.

We make our own criminals, and their crimes are congruent with the national culture we all share. It has been said that a people get the kind of political leadership they deserve. I think they also get the kinds of crime and criminals they themselves bring into being.

We enact many laws that manufacture criminals, and then a few that punish them.

Abscond - to move in a mysterious way, commonly with the property of another.

Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

Every rascal is not a thief, but every thief is a rascal.

He that is robbed, not wanting what is stolen, him not know t, and he's not robbed at all.

The world of crime is a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event.

The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.

Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves.

No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been.

No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes.

All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature; the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost - the most legitimate - passion nature has bred into us and, without doubt, the most agreeable one.

Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.

Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass.

Crime seems to change character when it crosses a bridge or a tunnel. In the city, crime is taken as emblematic of class and race. In the suburbs though, it's intimate and psychological, a mystery resist to generalization, a mystery of the individual soul.

The mood and temper of the public in regard to the treatment of crime and criminals is one of the most unfailing tests of the civilisation of any country.

We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business?

As one reads history ... one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted.

Eliminating the death penalty...will not hinder the prosecutorial capacity to seek, or the court's ability to impose, 'life without parole' sentences for serious, heinous crimes and criminals.

Crime butchers innocence to secure a throne, and innocence struggles with all its might against the attempts of crime.

The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.

Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.

Crime is a fact of the human species, a fact of that species alone, but it is above all the secret aspect, impenetrable and hidden. Crime hides, and by far the most terrifying things are those which elude us.

So long, and thanks for all the fish.

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

The most absurd apology for authority and law is that they serve to diminish crime. Aside from the fact that the State is itself the greatest criminal, breaking every written and natural law, stealing in the form of taxes, killing in the form of war and capital punishment, it has come to an absolute standstill in coping with crime. It has failed utterly to destroy or even minimize the horrible scourge of its own creation.