| |  | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fear follows crime, and is its punishment | | Voltaire | | | He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it. | | Seneca | | | He who profits by a crime commits it | | Seneca | | | I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too. | | Thomas Jefferson | | | 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. | | Woody Allen | | | | | Poverty may be the mother of crime, but lack of good sense is the father | | Jean de la Bruyere | | | Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue. | | Seneca | | | | | The greatest crimes do not arise from a want of feeling for others but from an over-sensibility for ourselves and an over-indulgence to our own desires | | Edmund Burke | | | The punishment of criminals should be of use; when a man is hanged he is good for nothing | | Voltaire | | | The real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community of mankind | | Joseph Conrad | | | The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly. | | Theodore Roosevelt | | | We are easily shocked by crimes which appear at once in their full magnitude, but the gradual growth of our own wickedness, endeared by interest, and palliated by all the artifices of self-deceit, gives us time to form distinctions in our own favor, | | Samuel Johnson | | | We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business | | Will Rogers | | | | | Quotes: 1 - 16 of 16 | Pages: 1 | | | |
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