785 quotes found
“Many commit the same crimes with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime another a crown.”
“One crime is everything two nothing.”
“Whoever profits by the crime is guilty of it.”
“It is not the thief who is hanged but one who was caught stealing.”
“We enact many laws that manufacture criminals and then a few that punish them.”
“Yet each man kills the thing he loves By each let this be heard Some do it with a bitter look Some with a flattering word The coward does it with a kiss The brave man with a sword.”
“A small demerit extinguishes a long service.”
“And the thing has been said and said well have no scruple. Take it and copy it.”
“Jupiter is slow looking into his notebook but he always looks.”
“The number of malefactors authorizes not the crime.”
“No one is entirely useless. Even the worst of us can serve as horrible examples.”
“The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.”
“He who excuses himself accuses himself. (Qui s'excuse s'accuse.)”
“The study of crime begins with the knowledge of oneself.”
“Fear succeeds crime - it is its punishment.”
“All punishment is mischief. All punishment in itself is evil.”
“Speaking generally punishment hardens and numbs it produces concentration it sharpens the consciousness of alienation it strengthens the power of resistance.”
“He only may chastise who loves.”
“If England treats her criminals the way she has treated me she doesn't deserve to have any.”
“It is fairly obvious that those who are in favour of the death penalty have more affinity with assassins than those who are not.”
