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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.
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.
It is worse that a crime, it is a blunder.
[Fr., C'est plus qu'un crime, c'est une faute.]
It is worse that a crime, it is a blunder.
[Fr., C'est plus qu'un crime, c'est une faute.]
Where crime is taught from early years, it becomes a part of
nature.
[Lat., Ars fit ubi a read more
Where crime is taught from early years, it becomes a part of
nature.
[Lat., Ars fit ubi a teneris crimen condiscitur annis.]
A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenceless!
A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenceless!
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.
Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law.
Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law.
Purposelessness is the fruitful mother of crime.
Purposelessness is the fruitful mother of crime.
