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If you do big things they print your face, and if you do little things they print only your thumbs.
If you do big things they print your face, and if you do little things they print only your thumbs.
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?
Organized crime constitutes nothing less than a guerilla war against society.
Organized crime constitutes nothing less than a guerilla war against society.
A crafty knave needs no broker.
A crafty knave needs no broker.
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
Fear follows crime, and is its punishment.
Fear follows crime, and is its punishment.
Nor all that heralds rake from coffin'd clay,
Nor florid prose, nor honied lies of rhyme,
Can read more
Nor all that heralds rake from coffin'd clay,
Nor florid prose, nor honied lies of rhyme,
Can blazon evil deeds, or consecrate a crime.
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.]
It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.
It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.