Pastoral Resources

Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.

All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible.

There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.

Make it a crime to harm a fetus during another crime.

Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.

What becomes a crime deserving capital punishment when the tables are turned is a matter of small moment when the negro woman is the accusing party.

The negro has suffered far more from the commission of this crime against the women of his race by white men than the white race has ever suffered through his crimes.

Our country's national crime is lynching. It is not the creature of an hour, the sudden outburst of uncontrolled fury, or the unspeakable brutality of an insane mob.

It is hardly fair to accuse us of ignorance when it was made a crime under the former order of things to learn enough about letters to even read the Word of God.

Let's remember the children who come from broken homes, surrounded by crime, drugs, temptation, their peers having babies out of wedlock, but who still manage to get a good education despite the many obstacles they face every day.

There's no point regretting things. If you can't do the time, don't do the crime. Life's too short to worry about things I've said.

I think there's a lot of naivete and hubris within our mix of personalities. That's probably our worst crime. I keep wondering what a 'mature' record means.

Crime, family dissolution, welfare, and low levels of social organization are fundamentally a consequence of the disappearance of work.

I believe that the high rates of property crime (and some of the increase in violent crime) are part of the price you pay for freedom.

Crime is the price society pays for abandoning character.

A person is born with feelings of envy and hate. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to violence and crime, and any sense of loyalty and good faith will be abandoned.