Motivational Quotes

Crime and criminals

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

Best Quotes about Crime and criminals

Crime generally punishes itself.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Kraus, Karl

One crime is everything, two is nothing.

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

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

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.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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)

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

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

Aristotle

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

Horace

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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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Small crimes always precedes great ones.

Racine, Jean

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

Plato

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

Will, George F.

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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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He threatens many that hath injured one.

Jonson, Ben

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The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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All criminals turn preachers under the gallows.

Proverb

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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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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

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Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards.

Farquhar, George

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One crime has to be concealed by another.

Seneca

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

Huston, John

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He has committed the crime who profits by it.

Seneca

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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Locks keep out only the honest.

Proverb, Jewish

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

Meredith, Owen

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In times of trouble leniency becomes crime.

Proverb

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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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Great thieves punish little ones.

Proverb

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From a single crime know the nation.

Virgil

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Farber, Barry J.