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Quotes about crime and criminals
Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit. (Adler Freda)
Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year. This is quite a profitable sum, especially when one consider that the Mafia spends very little for office supplies. (Adler Freda)
No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been. (Adler Freda)
Every rascal is not a thief, but every thief is a rascal. (Adler Freda)
Crime is a fact of the human species, a fact of that species alone, but it is above all the secret aspect, impenetrable and hidden. Crime hides, and by far the most terrifying things are those which elude us. (Adler Freda)
The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague. (Adler Freda)
The world of crime is a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event. (Adler Freda)
If poverty is the mother of crime, lack of good sense is the father. (Adler Freda)
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. (Adler Freda)
The fear of burglars is not only the fear of being robbed, but also the fear of a sudden and unexpected clutch out of the darkness. (Adler Freda)
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. (Adler Freda)
Slums may well be breeding-grounds of crime, but middle-class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium. (Adler Freda)
One crime is everything, two is nothing. (Adler Freda)
The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged. (Adler Freda)
Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society. (Adler Freda)
Successful crimes alone are justified. (Adler Freda)
There is no society known where a more or less developed criminality is not found under different forms. No people exists whose morality is not daily infringed upon. We must therefore call crime necessary and declare that it cannot be non-existent, that the fundamental conditions of social organization, as they are understood, logically imply it. (Adler Freda)
We cannot be sure that we ought not to regard the most criminal country as that which in some aspects possesses the highest civilization. (Adler Freda)
Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that, unsuspected, ripens with the flower of the pleasure that concealed it. (Adler Freda)
Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass. (Adler Freda)
Crime expands according to our willingness to put up with it. (Adler Freda)
Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards. (Adler Freda)
The lyricism of marginality may find inspiration in the image of the outlaw, the great social nomad, who prowls on the confines of a docile, frightened order. (Adler Freda)
The man who is admired for the ingenuity of his larceny is almost always rediscovering some earlier form of fraud. The basic forms are all known, have all been practiced. The manners of capitalism improve. The morals may not. (Adler Freda)
Repudiating the virtues of your world, criminals hopelessly agree to organize a forbidden universe. They agree to live in it. The air there is nauseating: they can breathe it. (Adler Freda)
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