What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.

What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.

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

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

Every crime destroys more Edens than our own.

Every crime destroys more Edens than our own.

Fear follows crime, and is its punishment.

Fear follows crime, and is its punishment.

Providence sees to it that no man gets happiness out of crime.

Providence sees to it that no man gets happiness out of crime.

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.

Society prepares the crime, the criminal commits it

Society prepares the crime, the criminal commits it

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

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

There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being read more

There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.