Beware of the Dandy Hound and his silver tongue.
Corruption is not the priority of the Police Commissioner. His job is to enforce the law and fight crime. E J Kiernan
If voting could change the system, it would be illegal. If not voting could change the system, it would be illegal. Matthew Taylor
For a wrongdoer to be undetected is difficult; and for him to have confidence that his concealment will continue is impossible. Epicurus
Crime does not pay as well as politics. Alfred E Newman
The chief problem in any community cursed with crime is not the punishment of the criminals, but the preventing of the young from being trained to follow. W. E. B. Du Bois
Don't do the crime, if you can't do the time. Unknown
Crime is a logical extension of the sort of behavior that is often considered perfectly respectable in legitimate business. Robert Rice
No man is worthy of unlimited reliance; his treason, at best, only waits for sufficient temptation. H. L. Mencken
I think crime pays. The hours are good, you travel a lot. Woody Allen
As a single leaf turns not yellow but with the silent knowledge of the whole tree; so the wrongdoer cannot do wrong without the hidden will of you all. Kahlil Gibran
If poverty is the mother of crime, stupidity is its father. La Bruyere
It is the foreign element that commits our crimes. There is no native criminal class except Congress. Mark Twain
You never need think you can turn over any old falsehood without a terrible squirming and scattering of the horrid little population that dwells under it. Oliver Wendell Holmes
Nothing incites to money-crimes like great poverty or great wealth. Mark Twain
Most vices may be committed very genteelly; a man may debauch his friend’s wife genteelly; he may cheat at cards genteelly. Samuel Johnson
Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it. Andrew Young
I don't doubt that we suffer from a plentiful dose of corruption. But I doubt not less that people, who otherwise don't miss anything else can go on living and even prospering well. José Ortega y Gasset
Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country. Marion Barry
Violence and wrong enclose all who commit them in their meshes and do mostly recoil on him from whom they begin. Lucretius
The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer. Henry Kissinger
When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues. Honore de Balzac
How many are there who do not sin from lack of desire or lack of occasion. Joseph Roux
Never leave anything to chance; make sure all your crimes are premeditated. Unknown
With a gentleman I try to be a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half. Otto Von Bismarck
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people’s throats. Howard Aiken
Most people want either less corruption or more of a chance to participate in it. Ashleigh Brilliant
If there were no falsehood in the world, there would be no doubt, if there were no doubt, there would be no inquiry; if no inquiry, no wisdom, no knowledge, no genius; and fancy herself would lie muffled up in her robe; inactive, pale, and bloated. Walter Savage Landor
The faculties for getting into jail seem to be ample. We want more organizations for keeping people out. Charles Dudley Warner
It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power. David Brin.
If England treats her criminals the way she has treated me, she doesn't deserve to have any. Oscar Wilde
It’s harder to confess the sin that no one believes in, than the crime that everyone can appreciate. For the crime is in relation to the law; and the sin is in relation to the sinner. T. S. Eliot
Political history is far too criminal a subject to be a fit thing to teach children. W H Auden
If you have given a person serious cause of offence, and afterwards do him a hundred kindnesses, rest not secure from his revenge for that one offence; for the dart may be extracted from the wound, yet the smart of it will rankle in the heart. Sadi
The sinner sins against himself; the wrongdoer wrongs himself, becoming the worse by his own action. Marcus Aurelius
False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil. Socrates
The public scandal is what constitutes the offence; sins sinned in secret are no sins at all. Moliere
When I die, I would like to have a picture of Hitler on one side of my death bed and one of Goering on the other. Because then I’d die like Jesus; between two criminals. Spoken by a Priest killed at Dachau concentration camp in Nazi Germany
Corrupt, stupid grasping functionaries will make at least as big a muddle of socialism as stupid, selfish and acquisitive employers can make of capitalism. Walter Lippmann
Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. George Bernard Shaw
Men of most renowned virtue have sometimes by transgressing most truly kept the law. Milton
A thief passes for a gentleman when stealing has made him rich. Thomas Fuller
Between these two, the denying of sins, which we have done, and the bragging of sins, which we have not done, what a space, what a compass is there, for millions of millions of sins. John Donne
Imbalance of power corrupts and monopoly of power corrupts absolutely. Genji
He that wrongs his friend, wrongs himself more, and ever bears about a silent court of justice in his breast. Himself the judge and jury, and himself the prisoner at the bar, ever condemned. Alfred Lord Tennyson
Many a man’s vices have at first been nothing worse than good qualities run wild. Julius Charles Hare and Augustus William Hare
Our sires’ age was worse that our grandsires’. We their sons are more worthless than they; so in our turn we shall give the world a progeny yet more corrupt. Quintus Horatius Flaccus
