“The world of crime is a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event.”
Daniel J. Boorstin
“There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. . . / Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.”
Hunter S. Thompson
“One is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalized by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime.”
Oscar Wilde
“Had we but world enough, and time, / This coyness, Lady, were no crime.”
Andrew Marvell
“No game in the world is as tidy and dramatically neat as baseball, with cause and effect, crime and punishment, motive and result, so cleanly defined.”
Paul Gallico
“The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy.”
Ramsey Clark
