Capable Quote by Edmund Burke

Crimes lead one into another; they who are capable of being forgers are capable of being incendiaries.

— Edmund Burke

For the powerful, crimes are those that others commit.

— Noam Chomsky

One fault begets another; one crime renders another necessary.

— Robert Southey

One crime has to be concealed by another.

— Anonymous

Crime is a product of a distorted mind.

— Kiran Bedi

Many commit the same crime with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown.

— Juvenal

The fact that a crime might have been committed with impunity in the past may make it seem more familiar and less gruesome, but…

— Jonathan Kozol

Crime requires further crime to conceal it.

— Seneca the Younger

Riches, perhaps, do not so often produce crimes as incite accusers.

— Samuel Johnson

Crime, after all, can be a way of establishing identity or acquiring security - at least the magistrate addresses you by name.

— Ariana Franklin

The contagion of crime is like that of the plague. Criminals collected together corrupt each other. They are worse than ever when, at the…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Crime is contagious…if the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for the law.

— Louis D. Brandeis