He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.

He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.

Whenever man commits a crime heaven finds a witness.

Whenever man commits a crime heaven finds a witness.

Purposelessness is the fruitful mother of crime.

Purposelessness is the fruitful mother of crime.

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.

And who are the greater criminals--those who sell the instruments of death, or those who buy them and use them?

And who are the greater criminals--those who sell the instruments of death, or those who buy them and use them?

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

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

'Tis no sin love's fruits to steal;
But the sweet thefts to reveal;
To be taken, to read more

'Tis no sin love's fruits to steal;
But the sweet thefts to reveal;
To be taken, to be seen,
These have crimes accounted been.

Whoever profits by the crime is guilty of it.

Whoever profits by the crime is guilty of it.

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