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To live outside the law you must be honest.  

—Bob Dylan, 1966

Man punishes the action, but God the intention.

—Thomas Fuller, 1732

I’ve got some shit I’m conservative about and some shit I’m liberal about. Crime—I’m conservative. Prostitution—I’m liberal.

—Chris Rock, 2008

What man was ever content with one crime?

—Juvenal, c. 125

After all, crime is only a left-handed form of human endeavor.

—John Huston, 1950

The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic.

—G.K. Chesterton, 1911

Our crime against criminals is that we treat them as villains.

—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1898

The more religious a country is, the more crimes are committed in it.

—Napoleon Bonaparte, 1817

Two crimes undid me: a poem and a mistake. 

—Ovid, 10

I'm all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.

—Gore Vidal, 1973

The land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.

—The Bible

There is no crime without precedent. 

—Seneca the Younger, c. 60

Punishment is a sort of medicine.

—Aristotle, c. 340 BC