Motivational Quotes

Crime and criminals

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)

Best Quotes about Crime and criminals

Successful crimes alone are justified.

Dryden, John

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

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

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

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

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

Aristotle

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

Plato

One crime has to be concealed by another.

Seneca

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

Hazlitt, William

10.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

Seneca

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

Doctorow, E. L.

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One crime is everything, two is nothing.

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

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

Genet, Jean

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

Farber, Barry J.

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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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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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From a single crime know the nation.

Virgil

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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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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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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 faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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Set a thief to catch a thief.

Proverb, French

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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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Small crimes always precedes great ones.

Racine, Jean

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

Winner, Michael

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

Proverb, French

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.

Democritus

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The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Peterson, Jill

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

Scott, Howard

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

Kraus, Karl

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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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Locks keep out only the honest.

Proverb, Jewish

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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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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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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