Kurt Elling Quotes

After all, crime is only a left-handed form of human endeavor.

Thus, anybody who follows this nature and gives way its states will be led into quarrels and conflicts, and go against the conventions and rules of society, and will end up a criminal.

A criminal is a person with predatory instincts without sufficient capital to form a corporation.

Crime is a job and it's boring. It's also unpleasant.

No thank you, I don't engage in criminal practice.

A lot of the friends I had went on to become criminals.

Crime is a product of social excess.

Crime to many is not crime but simply a way of life. If laws are inconvenient, ignore them, they don't apply to you.

If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination.

Crime takes the pulse of a culture. It tells us the truth about us as a species.

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.

Criminality is a basic part of human nature.

Criminals gravitate into government positions like natural law.

Crime is a left- handed form of human endeavor.

Reality is: Should people steal in this world? Yes. How do I know they should? They all do.

I want to tell the law and order machinery not to spare anyone who indulges in unlawful activities.

You know," Shane said twenty minutes later, "I'd feel a whole lot better about the two of us if you didn't think I was the go-to guy for breaking and entering.

If you're a drug addict, often you're stealing - I've gotten done for shoplifting a few times.

If you're a drug addict, then you've always got drugs, so you're a criminal. So you're gonna get into problems.

Crime has always been a regrettably consistent element of the human experience.

Every unpunished delinquency has a family of delinquencies.

What most needs explanation is not why some people are criminals, but why most people are not.

The child molester skipped breakfast, but said he'd grab a little something on the way to work.

When the enterprising burglar isn't burgling; When the cut-throat isn't occupied in crime; He loves to hear the little brook a-gurgling; And listen to the merry village chime.

Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves.