Crime Quote by Mark Twain

Is not this insanity plea becoming rather common? Is it not so common that the reader confidently expects to see it offered in every…

— Mark Twain

Laws must never be made compatible with crimes, no more than lying should be in harmony with the truth.

— Vincent de Paul

We need good laws, but no law can change a human heart - only God can do that.

— Shane Claiborne

Heaven knows insanity was disreputable enough, long ago; but now that the lawyers have got to cutting every gallows rope and picking every prison…

— Mark Twain

How dare politicians continue to pass insane laws forcing good, law-abiding people to be defenseless and helpless.

— Ted Nugent

Formerly we suffered from crimes; now we suffer from laws.

— Tacitus

We must not be guilty of taking the law into our own hands, and converting it from what it really is to what we…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Laws are like medicine; they generally cure an evil by a lesser or a passing evil.

— Otto von Bismarck

Forget not that the grossest crime is to compromise with injustice and wrong. Remember the eternal law: you must give, if you want to…

— Subhas Chandra Bose

Despite my emphasis on technology, I do not view laws as inherently evil. My goals are political ones, even if my techniques are not.…

— Bram Cohen

“Then our crime's worse than a murderer's. His act puts him outside the law, but keeps the law intact. Ours would weaken the law.”

— Walter Van Tilburg Clark

Just laws are no restraint upon the freedom of the good, for the good man desires nothing which a just law will interfere with.

— James Anthony Froude