Crime Quote by Guy Lawson

“We have to choose, and for my part I think it a less evil that some criminals should escape than that the government should…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr

“A man is not born to run away." Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes (1921).*”

— Richard Maxwell Brown

For my part I think it is a less evil that some criminals should escape, than that the government should play an ignoble part.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

“Justice fails because victims used to be too kind and criminals too clever.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

“Few criminals were as cunning, clever, bold, or difficult to catch as a maniac with a mission.”

— Dean Koontz

“Don't you believe that the punishment should fit the crime? Isn't that what justice is? Letely, though, I wonder if we've gotten more into…

— Whoopi Goldberg

[Oliver Wendell] Holmes never believed in the truth and morality of the laws he was upholding. He said, "I loathe the thick-fingered clowns we…

— Jeffrey Rosen

“Enough words! The criminals are escaping, we the victims, we stand still.”

— Sophocles

"From what I have seen here," remarked Sancho, "justice is so good a thing that even robbers find it necessary."

— Miguel de Cervantes

“If you would escape moral and physical assassination, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing—court obscurity, for only in oblivion does safety lie.”

— Elbert Hubbard

“Justice is what is good for the stronger.”

— Thrasymachus

“The problem with our sense of justice is we always seemed to be kind to beautiful and attractive criminals.”

— M.F. Moonzajer