Crime Quote by Thomas More

“For great and horrible punishments be appointed for thieves, wheras much rather provision should have been made that there were some means they might…

— Thomas Moore

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

“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

Some go to prison for stealing, and others for believing that a better system can be provided and maintained than one that makes it…

— Eugene V. Debs

“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

Confiscatory taxation enforced by threat of imprisonment is 'stealing,' a practice strongly frowned upon by our Creator.

— Ann Coulter

Just remember, stealing's punishable by death

— Suzanne Collins

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

In any case, frequent punishments are a sign of weakness or slackness in the government. There is no man so bad that he cannot…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Crimes were committed to punish crimes, and crimes were committed to prevent crimes. The world has been filled with prisons and dungeons, with chains…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

“A few years ago, one who was generally believed to be a racketeer and murderer met death at the hands of his fellow criminals.…

— Venerable Fulton J. Sheen

“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