G. Gordon Liddy Quotes

Obviously crime pays, or there'd be no crime.

Crime is contagious.

Simply put, violent criminals break the law - any law - every day with impunity.

When you criminalize something, only criminals can deal with it. When criminals deal with it, there's no recourse to law, so there's only recourse to violence.

Punishment can do a lot for criminals, and send a message to the rest of society.

We make no apology for people who should be in prison being in prison.

No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes.

Criminals are not the victims of society; society is the victim of criminals.

The most malign of all these dangers today is disregard and disobedience of law. Crime is increasing. Confidence in rigid and speedy justice is decreasing.

People who do crime do it for reward. But you end up in jail - that's no reward. Through crime, your ambitions are low.

You will feel the full force of the law and if you are old enough to commit these crimes you are old enough to face the punishments. And to these people I would say this: you are not only wrecking the lives of others, you are potentially wrecking your own life too.

Crime, to the man of the forties, was an alien monstrous terror.

Let me tell you something. Nobody goes to jail unless they want to. Unless they make themselves get caught. They don't have things organized.

Crime and the fear of crime have permeated the fabric of American life.

We have determined as a society, as a country, as a people, that the incarceration and the supervision and the specific fines for a particular crime are that person's debt to society.

In a colony constituted like that of New South Wales, the proportion of crime must of course be great.

Any time you take a chance you better be sure the rewards are worth the risk because they can put you away just as fast for a ten dollar heist as they can for a million dollar job.

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.

The judge said I was a menace to society because I had put crime on a scientific basis.

Crime is sexy.

I saw that crime pays, but I never got involved in crime.

The message has to be sent that if you commit a crime there has to be punishment.

Court rules do not cause crime.

We're recycling very dangerous criminals over and over again.

The purpose of punishment is fulfilled, crime is repressed by penalties of just, not tormenting, severity, its repetition is prevented, and hope is given for the reformation of the criminal.