"Overprotecting intellectual property is as harmful as underprotecting it. Culture is impossible without a rich public domain. Nothing today, likely nothing since we tamed fire, is genuinely new: Culture, like science and technology, grows by accretion, each new creator building on the works of those who came before. Overprotection stifles the very creative forces it's supposed to nurture.""

"Imagine an Internet geek running for office, perhaps none too seriously, on a platform saying: "If elected, I will insert 'The Internet is for Porn' into the congressional hearing record, which will be preserved as an official public document for all time." Whatever his motivations, Polis did just that."

"The parties are advised to chill."

"Hungry men have no respect for law, authority or human life."

"Whatever opens opportunity and hope will help to prevent crime and foster responsibility."

"The doctrine that the cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy is like saying that the cure of crime is more crime."

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

"Poverty is the mother of crime."

"If England treats her criminals the way she has treated me, she doesn't deserve to have any."

"Yet each man kills the thing he loves, By each let this be heard, Some do it with a bitter look, Some with a flattering word, The coward does it with a kiss, The brave man with a sword."

"La crainte suit le crime, et c'est son châtiment."

"Du repos dans le crime! ah! qui peut s'en flatter."

"Amici vitium ni feras, facis tuum."

"Dumque punitur scelus, Crescit."

"Qui non vetat peccare, cum possit, jubet."

"Ad auctores redit Sceleris coacti culpa."

"Cui prodest scelus, Is fecit."

"Scelere velandum est scelus."

"Nullum caruit exemplo nefas."

"Prosperum ac felix scelus Virtus vocatur; sontibus parent boni; Jus est in armis, opprimit leges timor."

"With his hand upon the throttle-valve of crime."

"Le crime d'une mère est un pesant fardeau."

"Ars fit ubi a teneris crimen condiscitur annis."

"Factis ignoscite nostris Si scelus ingenio scitis abesse meo."

"Pœna potest demi, culpa perennis erit."

"Solent occupationis spe vel impune quædam scelesta committi."

"Non faciat malum, ut inde veniat bonum."

"Nam scelus intra se tacitum qui cogitat ullum, Facti crimen habet."

"Multi committunt eadem diverso crimina fato; Ille crucem scleris pretium tulit, hic diadema."

"Se judice, nemo nocens absolvitur."

"'Tis no sin love's fruits to steal; But the sweet thefts to reveal; To be taken, to be seen, These have crimes accounted been."

"A crafty knave needs no broker."

"Deprendi miserum est."

"Every crime destroys more Edens than our own."

"Crime is not punished as an offense against God, but as prejudicial to society."

"C'est plus qu'un crime, c'est une faute."

"Le crime fait la honte et non pas l'échafaud."

"A man who has no excuse for crime, is indeed defenceless!"

"The chief problem in any community cursed with crime is not the punishment of the criminal, but the preventing of the young from being trained to crime."

"Crime is contagious."

"Justice is truth in action."

"One man's justice is another's injustice; One man's beauty another's ugliness; One man's wisdom another's folly."

"Anyone who takes it on himself, on his own authority, to break a bad law, thereby authorizes everyone else to break the good ones."

"Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream."

"If little faults, proceeding on distemper, Shall not be wink'd at, how shall we stretch our eye When capital crimes, chew'd, swallow'd, and digested, Appear before us?"

"Foul deeds will rise, Though all the earth o'erwhelm them, to men's eyes."

"Rursus prosperum ac felix scelus virtus vocatur; sontibus parent boni, ius est in armis, opprimit leges timor."

"People seem good while they are oppressed, but they only wish to become oppressors in their turn: life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim."

"The stinking puddle from which usury, thievery and robbery arises is our lords and princes. They make all creatures their property—the fish in the water, the birds in the air, the plant in the earth must all be theirs. Then they proclaim God's commandments among the poor and say, "You shall not steal.""