Quotes about Crime

There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.

There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime and the earth is made of glass. Commit a crime, and it seems as if a coat of snow fell on the ground, such as reveals in the woods the track of every partridge, and fox, and squirrel.

When the biblical premise of man being evil by nature is forsaken, society begins to believe that a criminal isn't really responsible for his crimes. People believe instead that societal conditions and life's circumstances are responsible, so the criminal gets a slap on the hand for violent crime since evil is no longer called evil. The lawbreaker is deemed rather to be sick or insane, and he receives rehabilitative treatment rather than punishment.

LAZY AND IRRESPONSIBLE This isn't a politically correct position to have, but I'm convinced that the lack of moral character in many black men is the primary cause of the breakdown of the black family, high crime rates, domestic violence, and other social problems within the black community.

Say, heavenly pow'rs, where shall we find such love? Which of ye will be mortal to redeem man's mortal crime, and just th' unjust to save.

There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.

Wherever a man commits a crime, God finds a witness. Every secret crime has its reporter.

Evil men, obsessed with ambition and unburdened by conscience, must be taken very seriously - and we must stop them before their crimes can multiply.

When trying a case [the famous judge] L. Cassius never failed to inquire "Who gained by it?" Man's character is such that no one undertakes crimes without hope of gain.

Nothing incites to money-crimes like great poverty or great wealth.

Capital punishment is against the best judgment of modern criminology and, above all, against the highest expression of love in the nature of God.

Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.