There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly

Ralph Waldo Emerson


I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business

Henry David Thoreau

Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure

Ambrose Bierce

Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core

Hannah Arendt



The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws

Ayn Rand