Some of the greatest criminals I have known had the faces of angels. A malformation of the grey cells may coincide quite easily with the face of a Madonna.
Only crimes could take place in darkness. Punishment had to be done in the light.
One has only to let the criminal talk – sooner or later he will tell you everything.
Now there is no murder without a motive.
Nothing incites to money-crimes like great poverty or great wealth.
No crime can be successful without luck!
Murder can sometimes seem justified, but it is murder all the same.
Man is an unoriginal animal. Unoriginal within the law in his daily respectable life, equally unoriginal outside the law. If a man commits a crime, any other crime he commits will resemble it closely.
Loyalty it is a pestilential thing in crime. Again and again it obscures the truth.
Little crimes breeding big crimes. You smile at little crimes and then big crimes blow your head off.
It’s a wicked world, and when a clever man turns his brains to crime it is the worst of all.
In war you do not exercise the right of private judgement. That is what is so dangerous. Once a man is imbued with the idea that he knows who ought to be allowed to live and who ought not – then he is halfway to becoming the most dangerous killer there is – the arrogant criminal who kills not for profit – but for an idea. He has usurped the functions of le bon Dieu.
