The roads are filled with armed robbers, and murders for mere plunder are of daily occurrence.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
There's good and evil going on. We have cops. We have robbers.
People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government.
The accumulation of personal wealth and the extension of commercial transactions have developed a great and lamentable increase in certain classes of crimes, while the improvements in transport have largely facilitated the escape of fugitive criminals.
My great crime in the world is blunder I will get into scrapes without intention or any bad motive.
They don't have a lot of crime in the countryside other than theft. But every once in a while, things turn ugly, and when they turn ugly, they turn very ugly.
The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.
The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines.
There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.
Crime is stupid, lazy and weak. You can only exploit it and make money out of it.
Individually the poor are not too tempting to thieves, for obvious reasons. Mug a banker and you might score a wallet containing a month's rent. Mug a janitor and you will be lucky to get away with bus fare to flee the crime scene.