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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. ~

Henry Miller

~ The idea that the sole aim of punishment is to prevent crime is obviously grounded upon the theory that crime can be prevented, which is almost as dubious as the notion that poverty can be prevented. ~

Henry Louis Mencken

~ Whenever a human being, through the commission of a crime, has become exiled from good, he needs to be reintegrated with it through suffering. The suffering should be inflicted with the aim of bringing the soul to recognize freely some day that its infliction was just. ~

Simone Weil

~ Fear follows crime, and is its punishment. ~

Voltaire

~ As the bull market goes on, people who take great risks achieve great rewards, seemingly without punishment. It's like crime without punishment or sex without sin. ~

Ron Chernow

~ The insistence of the Danish government to refrain from apologizing and its refusal to punish the criminals and take action to prevent this crime from being repeated... shows that the notions of freedom of speech have no roots, especially when it comes to Muslims. ~

Osama bin Laden

~ It is a great injustice to persecute homosexuality as a crime, and cruelty too. ~

Sigmund Freud

~ It is little wonder that rape is one of the least-reported crimes. Perhaps it is the only crime in which the victim becomes the accused and, in reality, it is she who must prove her good reputation, her mental soundness, and her impeccable propriety. ~

Freda Adler

~ Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime ~

Benjamin Disraeli

~ Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime. ~

Mohamed Abdel Moneim Fayed

~ No actual tyrant known to history has ever been guilty of one-hundredth of the crimes, massacres, and other atrocities attributed to the Deity in the Bible. ~

Stephen Valentine Patrick William Allen

~ Justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes. ~

Samuel Butler

~ Failure seems to be regarded as the one unpardonable crime, success as the all-redeeming virtue, the acquisition of wealth as the single worthy aim of life. The hair-raising revelations of skullduggery and grand-scale thievery merely incite others to surpass by yet bolder outrages and more corrupt combinations. ~

Charles Francis Adams II

~ War should be made a crime, and those who instigate it should be punished as criminals. ~

Charles Evans Hughes

~ He who allows oppression shares the crime. ~

Desiderius Erasmus

~ Poverty is like punishment for a crime you didn't commit. ~

Eli Khamarov

~ Curst greed of gold, what crimes thy tyrant power has caused ~

Virgil

~ Destiny, n. A tyrant's authority for crime and fool's excuse for failure. ~

Ambrose Bierce

~ Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes. ~

Confucius

~ Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others. ~

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

~ The hypocrite's crime is that he bears false witness against himself. What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all other vices except this one. Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core. ~

Hannah Arendt

~ He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it. ~

Seneca

~ Society prepares the crime, the criminal commits it ~

Henry Thomas Buckle

~ He who profits by a crime commits it ~

Seneca

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

Joseph Conrad

~ Fear follows crime, and is its punishment ~

Voltaire

~ Crime is a logical extension of the sort of behavior that is often considered perfectly respectable in legitimate business ~

Robert Rice

~ Crime is a product of social excess ~

Vladimir Lenin

~ Crime is a fact of the human species, a fact of that species alone, but it is above all the secret aspect, impenetrable and hidden. Crime hides, and by far the most terrifying things are those which elude us. ~

George Bataille

~ Despite crime's omnipresence, things work in society, because biology compels it. Order eventually restores itself, by psychic equilibrium. ~

Camille Paglia

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