Obviously crime pays, or there'd be no crime.
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One way to make sure crime doesn't pay would be to let the government run it.
I saw that crime pays, but I never got involved in crime.
If you give everybody a good government job, there's no crime.
Crime is stupid, lazy and weak. You can only exploit it and make money out of it.
I wanted to show that crime doesn't pay. If you are saved and accept the Lord, you cannot use that as an excuse to avoid punishment.
Nothing will deter crime but the certainty of punishment.
Crime is the price society pays for abandoning character.
In the deregulated realm of US banking and finance, crime does occasionally pay for its foul deeds, not in prison time but by making modest rebates to the victims.
Crime does not pay as well as politics.
In the end, crime doesn't pay.