Crime

There's not a crimeIf once rung on the counter of this world.

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Society already understands that the criminal is not he who washes our dirty linen in public, but he who dirties the linen.

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Nor all that heralds rake from coffin'd clay,Can blazon evil deeds, or consecrate a crime.

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There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.

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If the church ... does not make God's liberation of the oppressed central in its mission and proclamation, how can it rest easy with a condemned criminal as the dominant symbol of its message?

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Guide the people by law, subdue them by punishment; they may shun crime, but will be void of shame. Guide them by example, subdue them by courtesy; they will learn shame, and come to be good.

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The real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community of mankind.

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But many a crime deemed innocent on earthHave each their record, with a curse annex'd.

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The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.

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It is written ' Thou shalt not kill,' so because he has killed, are we to kill him? No, that's impossible.

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Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass.

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Criminals are a superstitious cowardly lot.

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Crime is naught but misdirected energy. So long as every institution of today, economic, political, social, and moral, conspires to misdirect human energy into wrong channels; so long as most people are out of place doing the things they hate to do, living a life they loathe to live, crime will be inevitable, and all the laws on the statutes can only in crease, but never do away with, crime.

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Never think that war, no matter how necessary, no matter how justified, is not a crime.

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Plan harm for another and harm yourself most,the evil we hatch always comes home to roost.

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My servant ... was numbered with the transgressors.

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When the sentence for a crime is not quickly carried out, people's hearts are filled with schemes to do wrong.

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The unpunished crime is never regretted. We weep over the consequence, not over the fault.

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Any time you think of a decent crime, there are fifty ways to fuck it up. If you can think of twenty-five, you're a genius.

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Why? What crime has he committed?" asked Pilate. But they shouted all the louder, "Crucify him!

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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.

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The prisoner is not the one who has committed a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over.

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The stinking puddle from which usury, thievery and robbery arises is our lords and princes. They make all creatures their property—the fish in the water, the birds in the air, the plant in the earth must all be theirs. Then they proclaim God's commandments among the poor and say, "You shall not steal."

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People seem good while they are oppressed, but they only wish to become oppressors in their turn: life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.

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Foul deeds will rise,Though all the earth o'erwhelm them, to men's eyes.

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If little faults, proceeding on distemper,Appear before us?

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Between the acting of a dreadful thingLike a phantasma, or a hideous dream.

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Beyond the infinite and boundless reachArt thou damn'd, Hubert.

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Tremble, thou wretch,Unwhipp'd of justice.

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There shall be doneA deed of dreadful note.

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Theft is only punished because it violates the right of property; but this right is itself nothing in origin but theft.

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From a single crime know the nation.

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Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.

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The sole means of ridding man of crime is to rid him of freedom.

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A man who has no excuse for crime, is indeed defenceless!

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Crime is not punished as an offense against God, but as prejudicial to society.

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Every crime destroys more Edens than our own.

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A crafty knave needs no broker.

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'Tis no sin love's fruits to steal;These have crimes accounted been.

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Ars fit ubi a teneris crimen condiscitur annis.

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With his hand upon the throttle-valve of crime.

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Yet each man kills the thing he loves, The brave man with a sword.

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