Motivational Quotes

Crime and criminals

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

- Doctorow, E. L.

Best Quotes about Crime and criminals

One crime has to be concealed by another.

Seneca

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

Scott, Howard

Set a thief to catch a thief.

Proverb, French

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

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

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.

Great thieves punish little ones.

Proverb

Successful crimes alone are justified.

Dryden, John

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

Capone, Al

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

Aristotle

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No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been.

Arendt, Hannah

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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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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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He threatens many that hath injured one.

Jonson, Ben

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Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

Seneca

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

Doctorow, E. L.

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

Plato

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Small crimes always precedes great ones.

Racine, Jean

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

Genet, Jean

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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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Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards.

Farquhar, George

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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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The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Farber, Barry J.

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

Horace

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

Will, George F.

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

Winner, Michael

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

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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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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One crime is everything, two is nothing.

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

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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 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