George Bernard Shaw Quotes About Crime
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The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty.
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Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.
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Those who minister to poverty and disease are accomplices in the two worst of all the crimes.
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Imprisonment, as it exists today, is a worse crime than any of those committed by its victims.
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The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.
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Man gives every reason for his conduct save one, every excuse for his crimes save one, every plea for his safety save one; and that one is his cowardice
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The greatest evils and the worst of crimes is poverty; our first duty, a duty to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor.
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Crime is only the retail department of what, in wholesale, we call penal law.
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Not everybody is strong enough to endure life without an anesthetic. Drink probably averts more gross crime than it causes.
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Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
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