Motivational Quotes

Crime and criminals

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

- Bierce, Ambrose

Best Quotes about Crime and criminals

Small crimes always precedes great ones.

Racine, Jean

One crime is everything, two is nothing.

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

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

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

Kraus, Karl

Great thieves punish little ones.

Proverb

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

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

Porter, O. Henry

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

Scott, Howard

10.

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

Huston, John

11.

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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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

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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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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

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Crime seems to change character when it crosses a bridge or a tunnel. In the city, crime is taken as emblematic of class and race. In the suburbs, though, it's intimate and psychological -- resistant to generalization, a mystery of the individual soul.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

Proverb, French

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In times of trouble leniency becomes crime.

Proverb

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

Seneca

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Crime generally punishes itself.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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 man who is admired for the ingenuity of his larceny is almost always rediscovering some earlier form of fraud. The basic forms are all known, have all been practiced. The manners of capitalism improve. The morals may not.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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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He has committed the crime who profits by it.

Seneca

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It is certain that stealing nourishes courage, strength, skill, tact, in a word, all the virtues useful to a republican system and consequently to our own. Lay partiality aside, and answer me: is theft, whose effect is to distribute wealth more evenly, to be branded as a wrong in our day, under our government which aims at equality? Plainly, the answer is no.

Sade, Marquis De

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Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.

Genet, Jean

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

Capone, Al

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Successful crimes alone are justified.

Dryden, John

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

Waugh, Evelyn

43.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

44.

Set a thief to catch a thief.

Proverb, French

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

Meredith, Owen

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He threatens many that hath injured one.

Jonson, Ben

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

Winner, Michael

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All criminals turn preachers under the gallows.

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