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 crime.

Bad judgment and carelessness are not punishable by rape.

All crime is a kind of disease and should be treated as such.

When is conduct a crime, and when is a crime not a crime? When Somebody Up There-a monarch, a dictator, a Pope, a legislator-so decrees.

Expulsion and genocide, though both are international offenses, must remain distinct; the former is an offense against fellow-nations, whereas the latter is an attack upon human diversity as such, that is, upon a characteristic of the "human status" without which the very words "mankind" or "humanity" would be devoid of meaning.

There exists among the intolerably degraded the perverse and powerful desire to force into the arena of the actual those fantastic crimes of which they have been accused, achieving their vengeance and their own destruction through making the nightmare real.

If the people would but analyze the human equation of a prison they might better account for the crimes that are visited upon them in cities, towns, and hamlets, ofttimes by men who graduated with an education and equipment for just that sort of retributive service from some penal institution.

The great thieves lead away the little thief.

The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more difficult it is to bring it home.

Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass. There is no such thing as concealment.