Crime And Criminals Quotes - Page 2

• Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on.

  Robert Kennedy

  Law, Community, Police

  Robert F. Kennedy (1964). “The Pursuit of Justice”, New York : Harper & Row

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• To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace

  Malcolm X

  Criminals, Crime, Disgrace

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• Many a man is saved from being a thief by finding everything locked up.

  E. W. Howe

  Funny, Humor, Men

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• Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions.

  Agatha Christie

  Attitude, Soul, Mind

  Agatha Christie (1956). “Surprise Endings by Hercule Poirot: Including The A. B. C. Murders, Murder in Three Acts, and Cards on the Table”

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• The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.

  H. L. Mencken

  Funny, Humor, Criminals

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.271, Knopf

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• So long, and thanks for all the fish.

  Douglas Adams

  Democracies Have, Long, Dolphins

  Douglas Adams (2009). “So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish”, Pan Macmillan

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• A community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurence of crime.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Humor, Punishment

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)”, p.1649, Delphi Classics

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• Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit.

  Freda Adler

  Funny, Philosophical, Humor

  "Sisters in Crime: The Rise of the New Female Criminal". Book by Freda Adler, 1975.

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• As one reads history ... one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Humor, Punishment

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “Aphorisms”, p.50, Oscar Wilde

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• From a single crime know the nation.

  Virgil

  Crime, Knows, Nations

  Virgil (1930). “Virgil”

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• The study of crime begins with the knowledge of oneself. All that you despise, all that you loathe, all that you reject, all that you condemn and seek to convert by punishment springs from you.

  Henry Miller

  Spring, Punishment, Study

  Henry Miller (1970). “The Air-Conditioned Nightmare”, p.87, New Directions Publishing

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• The mood and temper of the public in regard to the treatment of crime and criminals is one of the most unfailing tests of the civilisation of any country.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Country, Tests, Criminals

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• Eliminating the death penalty...will not hinder the prosecutorial capacity to seek, or the court's ability to impose, 'life without parole' sentences for serious, heinous crimes and criminals.

  Scott Harshbarger

  Criminals, Serious, Death Penalty

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