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.

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

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

There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime and the earth is made read more

There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime and the earth is made of glass.

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.

The punishment of criminals should be of use; when a man is hanged he is good for nothing

The punishment of criminals should be of use; when a man is hanged he is good for nothing

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

I realized I had been paying hit men to slaughter
cows for my table... and I stopped, but not for read more

I realized I had been paying hit men to slaughter
cows for my table... and I stopped, but not for 6 months
in which I rationalized.

The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.
[Lat., Poena potest demi, culpa perennis erit.]

The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.
[Lat., Poena potest demi, culpa perennis erit.]

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?