For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.
Albert Camus

Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.
Will Rogers

We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business?
Will Rogers

The prisoner is not the one who has commited a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over.
Henry Miller

It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No; if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It is a blunder, though, and is punished as such. A poor man is despised the whole world over.
Jerome K. Jerome

Not failure, but low aim, is crime.
James Russell Lowell

Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.
James Russell Lowell

The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
H. L. Mencken

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
George Bernard Shaw

Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
Evelyn Waugh

Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.
Ambrose Bierce

Crime is a product of social excess.
Vladimir Lenin

Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.
H. G. Wells

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.
Honore de Balzac

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.
Agatha Christie

Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Poverty is not the root cause of crime.
Rush Limbaugh

If you commit a crime, you're guilty.
Rush Limbaugh

There's a simple way to solve the crime problem: obey the law; punish those who do not.
Rush Limbaugh