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Quotes about crime and criminals

  • Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man. (Adler Freda)
  • How vainly shall we endeavor to repress crime by our barbarous punishment of the poorer class of criminals so long as children are reared in the brutalizing influences of poverty, so long as the bite of want drives men to crime. (Adler Freda)
  • There is no crime of which I do not deem myself capable. (Adler Freda)
  • Crime is naught but misdirected energy. (Adler Freda)
  • Crime generally punishes itself. (Adler Freda)
  • There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion. (Adler Freda)
  • We are often deterred from crime by the disgrace of others. (Adler Freda)
  • Many a man is saved from being a thief by finding everything locked up. (Adler Freda)
  • After all, crime is only a left-handed form of human endeavor. (Adler Freda)
  • He threatens many that hath injured one. (Adler Freda)
  • Many commit the same crime with a different destiny; one bears a cross as the price of his villainy, another wears a crown. (Adler Freda)
  • Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is also true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on. (Adler Freda)
  • Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear. (Adler Freda)
  • If poverty is the mother of crime, lack of good sense is the father. (Adler Freda)
  • There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess. (Adler Freda)
  • There is a new billboard outside Time Square. It keeps an up-to minute count of gun-related crimes in New York. Some goofball is going to shoot someone just to see the numbers move. (Adler Freda)
  • He reminds me of the man who murdered both his parents, and then when the sentence was about to be pronounced, pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was orphan. (Adler Freda)
  • Not failure, but low aim, is crime. (Adler Freda)
  • The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor. (Adler Freda)
  • We may live without friends; we may live without books. But civilized men cannot live without cooks. (Adler Freda)
  • 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. (Adler Freda)
  • It is because they took the easy way out that rivers, and people, go crooked. (Adler Freda)
  • He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it. (Adler Freda)
  • A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else. (Adler Freda)
  • All criminals turn preachers under the gallows. (Adler Freda)
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