I’ve got some shit I’m conservative about and some shit I’m liberal about. Crime—I’m conservative. Prostitution—I’m liberal.

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

Our crime against criminals is that we treat them as villains.

There is no crime without precedent. 

In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating.

Two crimes undid me: a poem and a mistake. 

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

A crowded police court docket is the surest sign that trade is brisk and money plenty.

Punishment is a sort of medicine.

Man punishes the action, but God the intention.

What man was ever content with one crime?

The land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.

To live outside the law you must be honest.