The strong man with the dagger is followed by the weaker man with the sponge. First, the criminal who slays; then the sophist who defends the slayer.
Crime Quotes
I have too great a soul to die like a criminal.
Society prepares the crime, the criminal commits it.
He talked of going to Streatham that night. Taylor: “You’ll be robbed if you do; or you must shoot a highwayman. Now I would rather be robbed than do that; I would not shoot a highwayman.” Johnson: “But I would rather shoot him in the instant when he is attempting to rob me, than afterwards […]
Providence sees to it that no man gets happiness out of crime.
Talking of the Justitia hulk at Woolwich, in which criminals were punished, by being confined to labour, (Johnson) said “I do not see that they are punished by this; they must have worked equally had they never been guilty of stealing. They now only work; so, after all, they have gained; what they stole is […]
I think crime pays. The hours are good, you travel a lot.
Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a law breaker, it breeds contempt for the law.
It is no secret that organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year. This is quite a profitable sum, especially when one considers that the Mafia spends very little for office supplies.
In America, the crime clock continues to click: one murder every 22 minutes, one rape every 5 minutes, one robbery every 49 seconds, and one burglary every 10 seconds. And the cost of crime continues to mount: $78 billion for the criminal justice system, $64 billion for private protection, $202 billion in loss of life […]
