Crime

Crime in the field of sociology is the breach of a rule or law for which some governing authority or force may ultimately prescribe a punishment. The word crime originates from the Latin crimen (genitive criminis), from the Latin root cernō and Greek κρινω = "I judge". Originally it meant "charge (in law), guilt, accusation".

Sourced

• It is written ' Thou shalt not kill,' so because he has killed, are we to kill him ? No, that's impossible.
  • Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot: A Novel in Four Parts (1916), p. 19.

• 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, A Modern Utopia (1905), Chapter 5; reprinted in The Works of H.G. Wells. Vol. 9 (1925).

• Crime is naught but misdirected energy. So long as every institution of today, economic, political, social, and moral, conspires to misdirect human energy into wrong channels; so long as most people are out of place doing the things they hate to do, living a life they loathe to live, crime will be inevitable, and all the laws on the statutes can only in crease, but never do away with, crime.
  • Emma Goldman, "Anarchism, What it Really Stands For", Anarchism and Other Essays (1917).

Attributed

• If England treats her criminals the way she has treated me, she doesn't deserve to have any.
  • Oscar Wilde, reported in Evan Esar, 20,000 quips & quotes (Barnes & Noble Publishing, April 1995), p. 193. ISBN 1566195292.

• Poverty is the mother of crime.
  • Marcus Aurelius, reported in Robert D. Ramsey, Well Said, Well Spoken (Corwin Press, 2001), p. 30. ISBN 0761977708.

• We don't seem able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business?
  • Will Rogers, reported in reported in Evan Esar, 20,000 quips & quotes (Barnes & Noble Publishing, April 1995), p. 193. ISBN 1566195292.

• The doctrine that the cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy is like saying that the cure of crime is more crime.
  • H. L. Mencken, reported in Evan Esar, 20,000 quips & quotes (Barnes & Noble Publishing, April 1995), p. 211. ISBN 1566195292.

• Whatever opens opportunity and hope will help to prevent crime and foster responsibility.
  • Lyndon B. Johnson, reported in Ashton Applewhite, Tripp Evans, and Andrew Frothingham, And I Quote: The Definitive Collection of Quotes, Sayings, and Jokes for the Contemporary Speechmaker (St. Martin's Press, 2003), p. 27. ISBN 0312307446.

• Hungry men have no respect for law, authority or human life.
  • Marcus Garvey, reported in Ashton Applewhite, Tripp Evans, and Andrew Frothingham, And I Quote: The Definitive Collection of Quotes, Sayings, and Jokes for the Contemporary Speechmaker (St. Martin's Press, 2003), p. 84. ISBN 0312307446.

• Anyone who takes it on himself, on his own authority, to break a bad law, thereby authorizes everyone else to break the good ones.
  • Denis Diderot, reported in Ashton Applewhite, Tripp Evans, and Andrew Frothingham, And I Quote: The Definitive Collection of Quotes, Sayings, and Jokes for the Contemporary Speechmaker (St. Martin's Press, 2003), p. 84. ISBN 0312307446.

• One man's justice is another's injustice; One man's beauty another's ugliness; One man's wisdom another's folly.
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson, reported in Hélio Gomes, Quality Quotes (ASQ Quality Press, 1996), p. 6. ISBN 0873894073.

• Justice is truth in action.
  • Benjamin Disraeli, reported in Cathy Collins Block and Susan E. Israel, Quotes to Inspire Great Reading Teachers (Corwin Press, 2006), p. 78. ISBN 1412914973.

• Crime is contagious.
  • Louis Brandeis, reported in Robert D. Ramsey, Well Said, Well Spoken (Corwin Press, 2001), p. 30. ISBN 0761977708.

• The chief problem in any community cursed with crime is not the punishment of the criminal, but the preventing of the young from being trained to crime.
  • W. E. B. Du Bois, reported in Robert D. Ramsey, Well Said, Well Spoken (Corwin Press, 2001), p. 30. ISBN 0761977708.