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.

Whenever man commits a crime heaven finds a witness.

Whenever man commits a crime heaven finds a witness.

He who profits by a crime commits it

He who profits by a crime commits it

Purposelessness is the fruitful mother of crime.

Purposelessness is the fruitful mother of crime.

Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime.
[It., Non nella pena,
Nel delitto read more

Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime.
[It., Non nella pena,
Nel delitto e la infamia.]

I have too great a soul to die like a criminal.

I have too great a soul to die like a criminal.

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.

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.]