"Perhaps the world's second-worst crime is boredom; the first is being a bore"

"Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime"

"Behind every great fortune lies a great crime"

"Poverty is like punishment for a crime you didn't commit"

"Crime when it succeeds is called virtue"

"The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind, is wisdom"

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

"To make crime unprofitable, let the government run it"

"He has committed the crime who profits by it"

"He who allows oppression shares the crime"

"Addiction should never be treated as a crime. It has to be treated as a health problem. We do not send alcoholics to jail in this country. Over 500,000 people are in our jails who are nonviolent drug users"