One way to make sure crime doesn't pay would be to let the government run it.
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Technology breeds crime and we are constantly trying to develop technology to stay one step ahead of the person trying to use it negatively.
Crime does not pay as well as politics.
Perhaps our imagination needs crime stories to fulfill some craving we have, as a way to assuage a darkness in ourselves.
One of the things that Dostoevsky talks about is that no character is too high to fall and no character is too low to be redeemed. 'Crime and Punishment' began with a person going out and consciously becoming a cold-blooded murderer, and it took 800 pages and an epilogue before the person finally asked for forgiveness.
I make movies for teenage boys. Oh dear, what a crime.
Atheism is aristocratic the idea of a great Being that watches over oppressed innocence and punishes triumphant crime is altogether popular.
Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.
No crime is so great as daring to excel.
Small aim is a crime have great aim.
In the deregulated realm of US banking and finance, crime does occasionally pay for its foul deeds, not in prison time but by making modest rebates to the victims.
Sometimes the crime follows the punishment, which only serves to prove the foresight of the Great God.""That's what my grandmother used to say," said Brutha automatically."Indeed? I would like to know more about this formidable lady.""She used to give me a thrashing every morning because I would certainly do something to deserve it during the day," said Brutha."A most complete understanding of the nature of mankind,
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.
Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.
There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.
Cops and robbers resemble each other, so there's not a lot to learn in terms of learning the logistics of committing the crime or investigating the crime.
Crime, family dissolution, welfare, and low levels of social organization are fundamentally a consequence of the disappearance of work.
For some, the very act of intelligence gathering seems illegitimate when applied to the crime of terrorism.