Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

One crime has to be concealed by another.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

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

Despotism is a long crime.
Victor Hugo

Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.
Victor Hugo

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

Addiction should never be treated as a crime. It has to be treated as a health problem. We do not send alcoholics to jail in this country. Over 500,000 people are in our jails who are nonviolent drug users.
Ralph Nader

Crime is naught but misdirected energy.
Emma Goldman

How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!
Michel de Montaigne

Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime.
Vittorio Alfieri

Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime.
Vittorio Alfieri

To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked.
Vittorio Alfieri

People have told me about organized crime in the fashion industry, but I can't talk about that. I'm looking to stay alive.
Calvin Klein

First of all, do any of you here think it's a crime to help a suffering human end his agony? Any of you think it is? Say so right now. Well, then, what are we doing here?
Jack Kevorkian

To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.
George Santayana

The expansion and sophistication of transnational crime represents one of the most dangerous threats we confront in the next millennium.
Rand Beers

Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.
W. H. Auden

Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.
John Ruskin