Quotes on Criminals Crime

No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes.

To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace

No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been.

Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on.

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

As one reads history ... one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted.

Crime is naught but misdirected energy.

Every rascal is not a thief, but every thief is a rascal.

The world of crime is a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event.

The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.