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Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good
become the slaves of the impious; might makes read more
Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good
become the slaves of the impious; might makes right; fear
silences the power of the law.
[Lat., Prosperum ac felix scelus
Virtus vocatur; sontibus patent boni;
Jus est in armis, opprimit leges timor.]
Crime is a product of social excess.
Crime is a product of social excess.
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.
It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.
A crafty knave needs no broker.
A crafty knave needs no broker.
With his hand upon the throttle-valve of crime.
With his hand upon the throttle-valve of crime.
If blue collar jobs are leaving
and white collar jobs are outsourced
what color collar jobs are left?
If blue collar jobs are leaving
and white collar jobs are outsourced
what color collar jobs are left?
There's not a crime
But takes its proper change out still in crime
If once rung on read more
There's not a crime
But takes its proper change out still in crime
If once rung on the counter of this world.
Sport hunting is a crime. My sympathies are with the fox.
Sport hunting is a crime. My sympathies are with the fox.
