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Crime

"He who cannot prevent a crime when he can, encourages it." ~Seneca

"The great thieves lead away the little theif." ~Diogenes the Cynic

"The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more difficult it is to bring it home." ~Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

"The chief problem of any community cursed with crime is not the punishment of the criminals, but the preventing of the young from being trained to crime." ~W.E.B. Du Bois

"The number of malefactors authorizes not the crime." ~Thomas Fuller

"The argument that capital punishment degrades the state is moonshine, for if that were true then it would degrade the state to send men to war... The state, in truth, is degraded in its very nature: a few butcheries cannot do it any further damage." ~ H. L. Mencken

"Hanging one scoundrel, it appears, does not deter the next. Well, what of it? The first one is at least disposed of." ~ H. L. Mencken