Motivational Quotes

Crime and criminals

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

- Meredith, Owen

Best Quotes about Crime and criminals

The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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

Plato

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.

Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit.

Adler, Freda

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Meredith, Owen

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Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

Seneca

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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Small crimes always precedes great ones.

Racine, Jean

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

Will, George F.

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Winner, Michael

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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 generally punishes itself.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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He has committed the crime who profits by it.

Seneca

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

Horace

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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 wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.

Democritus

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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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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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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 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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In times of trouble leniency becomes crime.

Proverb

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

Scott, Howard

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All criminals turn preachers under the gallows.

Proverb

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

Kraus, Karl

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Set a thief to catch a thief.

Proverb, French

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

Huston, John

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

Aristotle

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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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 expands according to our willingness to put up with it.

Farber, Barry J.

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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.