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Crime generally punishes itself. (Baden Michael)
There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion. (Baden Michael)
We are often deterred from crime by the disgrace of others. (Baden Michael)
Many a man is saved from being a thief by finding everything locked up. (Baden Michael)
After all, crime is only a left-handed form of human endeavor. (Baden Michael)
He threatens many that hath injured one. (Baden Michael)
Many commit the same crime with a different destiny; one bears a cross as the price of his villainy, another wears a crown. (Baden Michael)
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. (Baden Michael)
Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear. (Baden Michael)
If poverty is the mother of crime, lack of good sense is the father. (Baden Michael)
There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess. (Baden Michael)
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. (Baden Michael)
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. (Baden Michael)
Not failure, but low aim, is crime. (Baden Michael)
The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor. (Baden Michael)
We may live without friends; we may live without books. But civilized men cannot live without cooks. (Baden Michael)
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. (Baden Michael)
It is because they took the easy way out that rivers, and people, go crooked. (Baden Michael)
He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it. (Baden Michael)
A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else. (Baden Michael)
All criminals turn preachers under the gallows. (Baden Michael)
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