Whoever profits by the crime is guilty of it.
Men are not punished for their sins, but by them. – Elbert Hubbard
Behind every great fortune there is a crime. – Honore de Balzac
There not enough jails, not enough police, not enough courts to enforce a law not supported by the people.
Society invites the crime, and criminals accept the invitation. – Vikrant Parsai
He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it. – Seneca
The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime. – Mignon McLaughlin
Society prepares the crime, the criminal commits it. – Henry Thomas Buckle
Crime does not pay as well as politics. – Alfred Newman
To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace. – Malcolm X
All crime is a kind of disease and should be treated as such. – Mahatma Gandhi
Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal. – Elizabeth Fry
All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride. – Sophocles
When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw. – Nelson Mandela
Rape is a more heinous crime than murder since the rape victim dies throughout the period she lives. – Amit Abraham
We enact many laws that manufacture criminals, and then a few that punish them. – Allen Tucker
By each crime and every kindness, we birth our future. – David Mitchell
What a greater crime. Than loss of time. – Thomas Tusser
Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime. – Aristotle
The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual crime. -Max Stirner
Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic. – G.K. Chesterton
Crime brings together honest men and concentrates them. – Emile Durkheim
I need not pause to explain that crime is not a disease. It is criminology that is a disease. – G.K. Chesterton
If, someday, we all go to prison for downloading music; I hope they separate us by genres.
And maybe that’s was her biggest crime of all. Making him fall in love with her. – Maya Banks
The worst kind of victim was the kind that was aware of nothing. – B. Barmanbek
Criminal: a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation. – Howard Scott
Some actions are even baser than the people who commit them. – Joaquim Maria Machado de Assi
It is a great injustice to persecute homosexuality as a crime, and cruelty too – Sigmund Freud
The punishment of criminals should be of use; when a man is hanged he is good for nothing. – Voltaire
The worst crime is faking it. – Kurt Cobain
The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague. – Napoleon Bonaparte
For the powerful, crimes are those that others commit. – Noam Chomsky
A good act does not wash out the bad, nor a bad act the good. Each should have its own reward. – George R.R. Martin
The worlds worst crimes are not committed by the hungry people; they are committed by the over-fed!
He who profits by a crime commits it. – Seneca
The bad consequences of crimes live longer than the actual crime.
If you share your friend’s crime, you make it your own.
A criminal remains a criminal whether he uses a convict’s suit or a monarch’s crown. – Victor Hugo
If poverty is the mother of crime, then stupidity is its father.
Punishment creates crime. – Silvia Hartmann
Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year and spends very little on office supplies. – Woody Allen
Little crimes breed big crimes. You smile at little crimes and then big crimes blow your head off. – Terry Pratchett
It’s about time law enforcement got as organized as organized crime. – Rudy Giuliani
If you do big things they print your face, and if you do little things they print only your thumbs. – Arthur Bugs Baer
A crime is born in the gap between the morality of society and that of the individual. – Hakan Nesser
It is shocking how many crimes the Bible contains. The Governor’s wife should cut them all out and paste them into her scrapbook. – Margaret Atwood
Organized crime constitutes nothing less than a guerilla war against society. – Lyndon Baines Johnson
In these electric times the criminal receives a cosmopolitan reputation. It is a privilege he shares with few other artists. – Israel Zangwill
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