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Obviously crime pays, or there'd be no crime.
Obviously crime pays, or there'd be no crime.
Crime is a product of social excess.
Crime is a product of social excess.
Fear follows crime, and is its punishment.
Fear follows crime, and is its punishment.
What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.
What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.
By his own verdict no guilty man was ever acquitted.
[Lat., Se judice, nemo nocens absolvitur.]
By his own verdict no guilty man was ever acquitted.
[Lat., Se judice, nemo nocens absolvitur.]
Every crime destroys more Edens than our own.
Every crime destroys more Edens than our own.
He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.
He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.
Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.
Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.
It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.
It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.