crime

We enact many laws that manufacture criminals and then a few that punish them.

Whoever profits by the crime is guilty of it.

And the thing has been said and said well have no scruple. Take it and copy it.

Fear succeeds crime - it is its punishment.

He who excuses himself accuses himself. (Qui s'excuse s'accuse.)

The number of malefactors authorizes not the crime.

Many commit the same crimes with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime another a crown.

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.

A small demerit extinguishes a long service.

The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.

All punishment is mischief. All punishment in itself is evil.

Crime like virtue has its degrees.

One crime is everything two nothing.

No one is entirely useless. Even the worst of us can serve as horrible examples.

Jupiter is slow looking into his notebook but he always looks.

Speaking generally punishment hardens and numbs it produces concentration it sharpens the consciousness of alienation it strengthens the power of resistance.

Prisons don't rehabilitate they don't punish they don't protect so what the hell do they do?

The study of crime begins with the knowledge of oneself.