Crime Quotes by George Bernard Shaw

17 Crime quotes by George Bernard Shaw

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Shaw’s 17 lines on crime cut through social pretensions with his signature irony. He treats lawbreaking as a stage for exposing hypocrisy, making each quote a bite‑size lesson in societal critique.

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Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.

George Bernard Shaw

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Crime is only the retail department of what, in wholesale, we call penal law.

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Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

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Those who minister to poverty and disease are accomplices in the two worst of all the crimes.

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The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty.

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Imprisonment, as it exists today, is a worse crime than any of those committed by its victims.

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Home is the girl's prison and the woman's workhouse.

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The greatest evils and the worst of crimes is poverty; our first duty, a duty to which every other consideration should be…

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Man gives every reason for his conduct save one, every excuse for his crimes save one, every plea for his safety save…

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Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind. It is the deed that…

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The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.

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If associations to control burglary and murder were tolerated we should take it for granted that the members should all be burglers…

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Not everybody is strong enough to endure life without an anesthetic. Drink probably averts more gross crime than it causes.

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Of the three official objects of our prison system: vengeance, deterrence, and reformation of the criminal, only one is achieved; and that…

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There is, on the whole, nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school. To begin with, it is…

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The thief who is in prison is not necessarily more dishonest than his fellows at large, but mostly one who, through ignorance…

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“The primitive idea of justice is partly legalized revenge and partly expiation by sacrifice. It works out from both sides in the…

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I love little children too but I don't cut off their heads and stick them in vases.

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Blasphemy and sedition (meaning the truth about Church and State).

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