Conflicting opinions Quote by Louis D. Brandeis

Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill it teaches the whole people by example. Crime is contagious. If…

— Louis D. Brandeis

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 naught but misdirected energy. So long as every institution of today, economic, political, social, and moral, conspires to misdirect human energy into…

— Emma Goldman

The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

The law has been perverted, and the powers of the state have become perverted along with it. The law has not only been turned…

— Frederic Bastiat

Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.

— Friedrich Engels

Crime is naught but misdirected energy.

— Emma Goldman

Crime to many is not crime but simply a way of life. If laws are inconvenient, ignore them, they don't apply to you.

— Dick Francis

Simply put, violent criminals break the law - any law - every day with impunity.

— Wayne LaPierre

While crime is punished it yet increases.

— Seneca the Younger

Crime can be a unifying argument - not an argument that people use as a code for us vs. them.

— Charles Schumer

Criminality is now legal. I guess criminal racketeering these days would be like burning little children at the stake or something. That's about what…

— Alex Jones