quotations about crime
Few criminals die sensible of their crimes.
NORMAN MACDONALD
Maxims and Moral Reflections
We're the judge and the jury
The hangman, the convict
It's too late for fury
Our indictment was handpicked
So step up to the gallows
And accept your sentence
For being so shallow
You must pay your penance
And oh we had so much time
How could we commit the worst crime?
DEPECHE MODE
"The Worst Crime"
What a position of transcendent horror must that be, where the perpetrator of a great crime, till then a stranger to positive guilt, finds himself suddenly cut off, and forever, from all human sympathy, isolated from hope, the tenant of a solitary cell, and with a wide, impassable gulf yawning between him and that great brotherhood of which he has ceased to be a part--no longer regarded as a man, but as a monster in the shape of one, from whom Mercy herself turns away, and for whom Pity even has no tears!
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE
Intuitions and Summaries of Thought
Crime is to man as fleas are to dog, the likelihood of its presence increases as the quality of one's personal circumstances decreases.
JEROME P. CRABB
Crime Quotes and Quibbles
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.
HANNAH ARENDT
epilogue, Eichmann in Jerusalem
Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.
ARISTOTLE
Politics
When, then, we ask why a crime was done, we believe it not, unless it appear that there might have been some desire of obtaining some of those which we called lower goods, or a fear of losing them. For they are beautiful and comely; although compared with those higher and beatific goods, they be abject and low.
ST. AUGUSTINE
Confessions
Crime has always been a regrettably consistent element of the human experience.
MARK FROST
The List of Seven
It's the denial of pleasure that leads to cancer. It's the repression of desire that leads to the crime. So I skip the middleman. Allowing myself the crime in the first place.
RICK REMENDER
Uncanny X-Force, December 2010
We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them -- to try to understand what you have done, why you have done it. That way, you can begin to forgive yourself. That's very important. If you don't forgive yourself you'll never be able to forgive anybody else and you'll go on committing the same crimes forever.
JAMES BALDWIN
Another Country