In a closed society where everybody’s guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.

We don’t seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business?

Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.

The first step in a person’s salvation is knowledge of their sin.

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

By that sin fell the angels.

After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.

We object not to the narration of the deeds of our unregenerate condition, but to the mode in which it is too often done. Let sin have its monument, but let it be a heap of stones cast by the hands of execration – not a mausoleum erected by the hands of affection.

It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.

I think most defense attorneys know, to some extent, their clients are guilty.

I think that the Bible teaches that homosexuality is a sin, but the Bible also teaches that pride is a sin, jealousy is a sin, and hate is a sin, evil thoughts are a sin. So I don’t think that homosexuality should be chosen as the overwhelming sin that we are doing today.

The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.

Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.

One crime has to be concealed by another.

Sometimes you can’t prioritise family and you feel guilty.

Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.

To cut short the question of the law of retaliation, we must note that even in its primitive form it can operate only between two individuals of whom one is absolutely innocent, and the other absolutely guilty. The victim, to be sure, is innocent. But can the society that is supposed to represent the victim lay claim to innocence?

All the goodness I have within me is totally from the Lord alone. When I sin, it is from me and is done on my own, but when I act righteously, it is wholly and completely of God.

The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.

I refuse to feel guilty. I feel guilty about too much in my life but not about money. I went through periods when I had nothing, so somebody in my family has to get stinkin‘ wealthy.

How accurately can the law fix the crime? There has to be a mechanism for very fast action. The law is like this: catch them and punish them.

We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful, irrespective of guilt.

‚You are no saint,‘ says the devil. Well, if I am not, I am a sinner, and Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners. Sink or swim, I go to Him; other hope, I have none.

Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.

Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?

Everybody will make mistakes, and for some that mistake will rise to the level of being a crime.

Sacrifice, discipline and prayer are essential. We gain strength through God’s word. We receive grace from the sacrament. And when we fumble due to sin – and it’s gonna happen – confession puts us back on the field.

I would rather die than do something which I know to be a sin, or to be against God’s will.

I don’t have time to be lonely. And I get fearful of relationships because I feel guilty about wanting someone to be completely faithful and loyal, when I can’t even give them 10 percent of the attention that they need. It’s just the reality of my time, my life, my schedule.

One way to make sure crime doesn’t pay would be to let the government run it.

The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly.

Guilt is just as powerful, but its influence is positive, while shame’s is destructive. Shame erodes our courage and fuels disengagement.

To those whose God is honor; only disgrace is a sin.

There is no sin except stupidity.

I’m just going to say it: I’m pro-guilt. Guilt is good. Guilt helps us stay on track because it’s about our behavior. It occurs when we compare something we’ve done – or failed to do – with our personal values.

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

I was tormented with guilt for years and years. In fact, it was so bad that if I didn’t feel wrong, I didn’t feel right!

Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt.

When things get so absurd and so stupid and so ridiculous that you just can’t bear it, you cannot help but turn everything into a joke.

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

I think it is a sin to look at another person as inferior to yourself because of race or because of ethnic background, and I think the greatest thing to do is to pray that God will give you love for them, and I do.

We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity. We cannot remain looking inwards at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet.

Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.

His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.

He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.

Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.

Juvenile crime is not naturally born in the boy, but is largely due either to the spirit of adventure that is in him, to his own stupidity, or to his lack of discipline, according to the nature of the individual.

He has committed the crime who profits by it.

I love crime, I love mysteries, and I love ghosts.

Poverty is the mother of crime.

The Israelites‘ slavery in Egypt is the equivalent of our slavery to sin. God sent Moses to deliver them from bondage, and He sent Jesus Christ to set us free.

You cannot make a sinner into a saint by killing him. He who does not live as a saint here will never live as a saint hereafter.

‚Eastern Promises‘ is great.

Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad.

Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.

You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.

Now I will say this to every sinner, though he should think himself to be the worst sinner who ever lived: cry to the Lord and seek Him while He may be found. A throne of grace is a place fitted for you. By simple faith, go to your Savior, for He is the throne of grace.