Seneca the Younger Quotes

If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

Successful crimes alone are justified.

We've had crooks from the beginning of time... it's always very interesting and troubling why good people do bad things.

It is worse than a crime. It is a blunder.

Crime and punishment grow out of one stem.

A man that will go along with six killings is making his escape a little slow.

Everyone of us is a potential convict.

...remember that what has once been done may be done again.

Many a man would have turned rogue if he knew how.

When the judge calls the criminal's name out he stands up, and they are immediately linked by a strange biology that makes them both opposite and complementary. The one cannot exist without the other. Which is the sun and which is the shadow? It's well known some criminals have been great men.

While crime is punished it yet increases.

My object all sublime I shall achieve in time- To let the punishment fit the crime- The punishment fit the crime.

A criminal is twice a criminal when he adds hypocrisy to his crime.

I have tried my hand at bribery, blackmail, and deceit. And I've served time for everything, cept beggin on the street.

So many laws argues so many sins.

All the great villainies of history, from the murder of Abel onward, have been perpetrated by sober men, chiefly by Teetotalers.

Most people fancy themselves innocent of those crimes of which they cannot be convicted.

I jack, I rob, I sin. Aw man, I'm Jackie Robinson 'Cept when I run base, I dodge the pen

Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime.

Crimes lead into one another. They who are capable of being forgers, are capable of being incendiaries.

One of my younger homies, he went to jail, and some people came to me and were like, "Bail him out," and I said no. Why would I bail him out? He's going to prison. Let him sit and get some time served. You want to be crazy, but you don't want to go to jail. You want to shoot people, but you don't want to kill people. That's such a misleading thing.

I believe in God. Whatever supposed to happen supposed to happen. But I can not live in a jail cell. That's why I don't rob people and stick up people.

Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.

The penal code deals with things like theft, false testimony, adultery, fornication, etc. and then there's the law of the state, the law of the individual and the law of the public.

Crime is a left- handed form of human endeavor.