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Crime and criminals

He threatens many that hath injured one.
- Jonson, Ben
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Best Quotes about Crime and criminals

1.
The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
Mencken, H. L.

2.
There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.
Hazlitt, William

3.
One crime has to be concealed by another.
Seneca

4.
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

5.
Successful crimes alone are justified.
Dryden, John

6.
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

7.
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.

8.
Set a thief to catch a thief.
Proverb, French

9.
He has committed the crime who profits by it.
Seneca

10.
One crime is everything, two is nothing.
Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

11.
Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society.
Doctorow, E. L.

12.
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

13.
Today more Americans are imprisoned for drug offenses than for property crimes
Will, George F.

14.
The truth of the matter is that muggers are very interesting people.
Winner, Michael

15.
All criminals turn preachers under the gallows.
Proverb

16.
It is because they took the easy way out that rivers, and people, go crooked.
Peterson, Jill

17.
There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.
La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

18.
Great thieves punish little ones.
Proverb

19.
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

20.
Abscond. To move in a mysterious way, commonly with the property of another.
Bierce, Ambrose

21.
Crime generally punishes itself.
Goldsmith, Oliver

22.
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

23.
Every rascal is not a thief, but every thief is a rascal.
Aristotle

24.
He has 63 ways of getting money, the most common and most honorable ones being stealing, thieving, and robbing.
Rabelais, Francois

25.
Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.
Genet, Jean

26.
Locks keep out only the honest.
Proverb, Jewish

27.
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

28.
Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards.
Farquhar, George

29.
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

30.
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)

31.
There is no crime of which I do not deem myself capable.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

32.
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

33.
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

34.
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

35.
Save a thief from the gallows and he will cut your throat.
Proverb, French

36.
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

37.
Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear.
Kraus, Karl

38.
Many a man is saved from being a thief by finding everything locked up.
Howe, Edgar Watson

39.
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

40.
We may live without friends; we may live without books. But civilized men cannot live without cooks.
Meredith, Owen

41.
The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.
Democritus

42.
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

43.
Small crimes always precedes great ones.
Racine, Jean

44.
The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.
Shaw, George Bernard

45.
Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

46.
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

47.
A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.
Porter, O. Henry

48.
We are often deterred from crime by the disgrace of others.
Horace

49.
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

50.
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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