John Dryden Quotes

The law condemns and punishes only actions within certain definite and narrow limits; it thereby justifies, in a way, all similar actions that lie outside those limits.

Every crime, even the most atrocious, may be justified.

I think crime is probably driven more by morality than anything else.

In the end, crime doesn't pay.

We've had crooks from the beginning of time... it's always very interesting and troubling why good people do bad things.

I'm always curious how we sometimes have a different point of view when it comes to justice. And that's why people root for 'Dexter.'

Court rules do not cause crime.

Crime and punishment grow out of one stem.

Murder may pass unpunishd for a time, But tardy justice will oertake the crime.

If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

Stealing, you'll go far in life. Actually, there is something funny about getting away with it.

You know that murder is wicked. If you saw your master kill a man, do you suppose this would be any excuse for you, if you should commit the same crime?

My feeling is that the hero has now been defined by phrases like the odious one that we were all raised with - crimes does not pay. Of course it pays, you schmuck. That's not why we don't do it. We don't do it because it is wrong.

The crime and not the scaffold makes the shame.

Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

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

Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit.

You can put handcuffs on people who push the envelope. When they break the law, they deserve to have handcuffs.

It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.

Criminals are never very amusing. It's because they're failures. Those who make real money aren't counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem.

Crimes are not to be measured by the issue of events, but from the bad intentions of men.

If we started prosecuting people for sin, we’d all be in jail.

Mutilations of parts of Fingers, are proper to disable such as have abused their dexterous use of them, by Pocket-picking, Counterfeiting of Seals and Writings, etc. Mutilations of other parts, may serve to punish and prevent Adulteries, Rapes, Incests, etc. And the smaller Corporal pains, serve to punish those, who can pay no pecuniary mulcts.

Although I was aware they were illegal. We had become somewhat inured to using some activities that would help us in accomplishing what we thought was a legitimate cause

The criminal law tries to define moral standards.