Society secretly delights in crime, excesses, and violated prohibitions of all sorts.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Crime is a product of social excess.
Where aspirations outstrip opportunities, law-abiding society becomes the victim. Attitudes of contempt toward the law are forged in this crucible and form the inner core of the beliefs of organized adult crime.
Too much virtue can be criminal.
There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.
Petty laws breed great crimes.
I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.
We live in a society where it's cool to be criminal.
Society just has a way of inhibiting you, which is good and bad.
Crime is sexy.
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