The thief is no danger to the beggar.
Crime Quotes
For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ. (Hamlet)
A little stealing is a dangerous part, But stealing largely is a noble art; ‘Tis mean to rob a hen roost, or a hen, But stealing thousands makes us gentlemen.
Didst thou never hear – That things ill got had ever bad success? And happy always was it for that son Whose father for his hoarding went to hell? (Henry VI)
The informer is the worst rogue of the two.
And who are the greater criminals – those who sell the instruments of death, or those who buy them and use them?
Crime wouldn’t pay if the government ran it.
Al Capone was to crime what J. P. Morgan was to Wall Street, the first man to exert national influence over his trade.
Crime, like disease, is not interesting; it is something to be done away with by general consent, and that is all about it.
The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.