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)
Crime Quotes
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.
This man, although he may not actually have committed the crime attributed to him, is nevertheless morally culpable, because he is the enemy of our existing institutions. (Massachusetts judge, of Nicola Sacco, accused of armed robbery, 1920)
Don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time.
Certainly it is absurd to say that a man who has been taken three or four times running in crimes of violence deserves another chance. In many a case he has had half a dozen chances. Society simply can’t endure criminals who stand ready at all times to butcher innocent people for gain… I agree […]
