Motivational Quotes

Crime and criminals

Crime expands according to our willingness to put up with it.

- Farber, Barry J.

Best Quotes about Crime and criminals

Crime expands according to our willingness to put up with it.

Farber, Barry J.

Successful crimes alone are justified.

Dryden, John

We are often deterred from crime by the disgrace of others.

Horace

Slums may well be breeding-grounds of crime, but middle-class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium.

Connolly, Cyril

One usually dies because one is alone, or because one has got into something over one's head. One often dies because one does not have the right alliances, because one is not given support. In Sicily the Mafia kills the servants of the State that the State has not been able to protect.

Falcone, Giovanni

The study of crime begins with the knowledge of oneself. All that you despise, all that you loathe, all that you reject, all that you condemn and seek to convert by punishment springs from you.

Miller, Henry

All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature; the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost -- the most legitimate -- passion nature has bred into us and, without doubt, the most agreeable one.

Sade, Marquis De

We cannot be sure that we ought not to regard the most criminal country as that which in some aspects possesses the highest civilization.

Ellis, Havelock

Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year. This is quite a profitable sum, especially when one consider that the Mafia spends very little for office supplies.

Allen, Woody

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Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that, unsuspected, ripens with the flower of the pleasure that concealed it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Today more Americans are imprisoned for drug offenses than for property crimes

Will, George F.

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How vainly shall we endeavor to repress crime by our barbarous punishment of the poorer class of criminals so long as children are reared in the brutalizing influences of poverty, so long as the bite of want drives men to crime.

George, Henry

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Repudiating the virtues of your world, criminals hopelessly agree to organize a forbidden universe. They agree to live in it. The air there is nauseating: they can breathe it.

Genet, Jean

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The fear of burglars is not only the fear of being robbed, but also the fear of a sudden and unexpected clutch out of the darkness.

Canetti, Elias

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There is no crime of which I do not deem myself capable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is also true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on.

Kennedy, John F.

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He that is robbed, not wanting what is stolen, let him not know't, and he's notrobbed at all

Shakespeare, William

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There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear.

Kraus, Karl

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The lyricism of marginality may find inspiration in the image of the outlaw, the great social nomad, who prowls on the confines of a docile, frightened order.

Foucault, Michel

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Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.

Waugh, Evelyn

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Many commit the same crime with a different destiny; one bears a cross as the price of his villainy, another wears a crown.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Locks keep out only the honest.

Proverb, Jewish

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Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

Seneca

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He has committed the crime who profits by it.

Seneca

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He has 63 ways of getting money, the most common and most honorable ones being stealing, thieving, and robbing.

Rabelais, Francois

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Set a thief to catch a thief.

Proverb, French

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Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.

Wells, H.G.

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In times of trouble leniency becomes crime.

Proverb

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He reminds me of the man who murdered both his parents, and then when the sentence was about to be pronounced, pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was orphan.

Lincoln, Abraham

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A person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.

Scott, Howard

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Abscond. To move in a mysterious way, commonly with the property of another.

Bierce, Ambrose

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There is a new billboard outside Time Square. It keeps an up-to minute count of gun-related crimes in New York. Some goofball is going to shoot someone just to see the numbers move.

Letterman, David

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For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.

Camus, Albert

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The greatest crime in the world is not developing your potential. When you do what you do best, you are helping not only yourself, but the world.

Williams, Roger

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We may live without friends; we may live without books. But civilized men cannot live without cooks.

Meredith, Owen

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After all, crime is only a left-handed form of human endeavor.

Huston, John

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Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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My rackets are run on strictly American lines and they're going to stay that way.

Capone, Al

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Crime generally punishes itself.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money, for that is the miser's passion, not the thief s.

Blake, William

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Save a thief from the gallows and he will cut your throat.

Proverb, French

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Many a man is saved from being a thief by finding everything locked up.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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The world of crime is a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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A crime persevered in a thousand centuries ceases to be a crime, and becomes a virtue. This is the law of custom, and custom supersedes all other forms of law.

Twain, Mark

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He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.

Plato

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One crime is everything, two is nothing.

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

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If poverty is the mother of crime, lack of good sense is the father.

La Bruyere, Jean De