Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good
become the slaves of the impious; might makes read more

Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good
become the slaves of the impious; might makes right; fear
silences the power of the law.
[Lat., Prosperum ac felix scelus
Virtus vocatur; sontibus patent boni;
Jus est in armis, opprimit leges timor.]

If you do big things they print your face, and if you do little things they print only your thumbs.

If you do big things they print your face, and if you do little things they print only your thumbs.

The greatest crimes do not arise from a want of feeling for others but from an over-sensibility for ourselves and read more

The greatest crimes do not arise from a want of feeling for others but from an over-sensibility for ourselves and an over-indulgence to our own desires

I never killed anybody, I never raped anybody, I never committed no crimes that weren't honorable.

I never killed anybody, I never raped anybody, I never committed no crimes that weren't honorable.

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

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

For whoever meditates a crime is guilty of the deed.
[Lat., Nam scelus intra se tacitum qui cogitat ullum,
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For whoever meditates a crime is guilty of the deed.
[Lat., Nam scelus intra se tacitum qui cogitat ullum,
Facti crimen habet.]

Obviously crime pays, or there'd be no crime.

Obviously crime pays, or there'd be no crime.

The guilty is he who meditates a crime; the punishment is his who
lays the plot.
[It., Il read more

The guilty is he who meditates a crime; the punishment is his who
lays the plot.
[It., Il reo
D'un delitto e chi'l pensa: a chi l' ordisce
La pena spetta.]

All crime is a kind of disease and should be treated as such.

All crime is a kind of disease and should be treated as such.