Crime Quote by Thomas Moore

There are dreadful punishments enacted against thieves, but it were much better to make such good provisions by which every man might be put…

— Thomas More

“For it is too extreme and cruel a punishment for theft, and yet not sufficient to restrain men from theft. For simple theft is…

— Thomas More

“Until you put these things to right, you're not entitled to boast of the justice meted out to thieves, for it's a justice more…

— Thomas More

Instead of inflicting these horrible punishments, it would be far more to the point to provide everyone with some means of livelihood, so that…

— Thomas More

“If, instead of saying that thieves will go to prison or liars will go to hell, we could make people think that stealing is…

— Fitzroy Somerset Raglan

“Must crimes be punish'd but by other crimes, and greater criminals?”

— George Gordon Byron

“They only asked for punishments that fitted their crimes. Not ones that came like cupboards with built-in bedrooms. Not ones you spent your whole…

— Arundhati Roy

“Nearly all a poor bastard's desires are punishable by jail.”

— Louis-Ferdinand Céline

For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those…

— Anonymous

“If we could renounce our artful contrivances and discard our (scheming for) gain, there would be no thieves nor robbers.”

— Lao Tzu

“If there is any society among robbers and murderers, they must at least. . . .abstain from robbing and murdering one another. So beneficence…

— Adam Smith

“Stealing to forgive the killing, because maybe they do out of necessity, but the traitor ever”

— Emiliano Zapata