Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions.
When do you notice an individual murder least? When it is one of a series of related murders.
We think with horror now of the days when we burnt witches. I believe the day will come when we will shudder to think that we ever hanged criminals.
There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
That the punishment of criminals should be rendered useful. A man that is hanged is no longer useful; but a man condemned to the public works is still serviceable to his country, and a living lecture against crime.[Que les supplices des criminels soient utiles. Un homme pendu n’est bon à rien, et un homme condamné aux ouvrages publics sert encore la patrie et est une leçon vivante.]
It’s at the back of a lot of crimes. The desire to assert one’s personality.
If you find a dagger planted by your pillow tomorrow morning – let the criminal who put it there beware!
Crimestop means the faculty of stopping short, as though by instinct, at the threshold of any dangerous thought.
A thousand times more crimes have been committed in the name of love than in the name of hate.
When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport: when the tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity. The distinction between Crime and Justice is no greater.
When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals.
What kind of man would put a known criminal in charge of a major branch of government? Apart from, say, the average voter.
