Motivational Quotes

Crime and criminals

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

- Shaw, George Bernard

Best Quotes about Crime and criminals

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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)

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

The truth of the matter is that muggers are very interesting people.

Winner, Michael

Every rascal is not a thief, but every thief is a rascal.

Aristotle

Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions.

Christie, Agatha

The thief. Once committed beyond a certain point he should not worry himself too much about not being a thief any more. Thieving is God's message to him. Let him try and be a good thief.

Butler, Samuel

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

Capone, Al

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

Horace

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Successful crimes alone are justified.

Dryden, John

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

Connolly, Cyril

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It is because they took the easy way out that rivers, and people, go crooked.

Peterson, Jill

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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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.

Porter, O. Henry

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

Scott, Howard

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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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All criminals turn preachers under the gallows.

Proverb

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Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards.

Farquhar, George

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Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit.

Adler, Freda

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Crime generally punishes itself.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

Seneca

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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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The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.

Democritus

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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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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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One crime is everything, two is nothing.

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

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

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Kraus, Karl

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Small crimes always precedes great ones.

Racine, Jean

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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

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The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.

Mencken, H. L.

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Crime is a fact of the human species, a fact of that species alone, but it is above all the secret aspect, impenetrable and hidden. Crime hides, and by far the most terrifying things are those which elude us.

Bataille, Georges

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One crime has to be concealed by another.

Seneca

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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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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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From a single crime know the nation.

Virgil

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There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.

Hazlitt, William

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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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Locks keep out only the honest.

Proverb, Jewish

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Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society.

Doctorow, E. L.

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There is no society known where a more or less developed criminality is not found under different forms. No people exists whose morality is not daily infringed upon. We must therefore call crime necessary and declare that it cannot be non-existent, that the fundamental conditions of social organization, as they are understood, logically imply it.

Durkheim, Emile

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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