The lawyer talked. There are more millionaires in this country than in any other, he said, and at the same time more robbers and killers. Therein lay significance. Extremes in riches make extremes in crime. As long as a Social System permitted the acquisition of extreme riches, there would be equalizing crime and the Government and all law-enforcement organizations might as well fold their hands and accept it.
- Edward Anderson, Thieves Like Us, pp.339-340 in Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1930s and 1940s
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