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

There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Plato

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

Scott, Howard

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Genet, Jean

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

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

Winner, Michael

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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 when it succeeds is called virtue.

Seneca

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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Locks keep out only the honest.

Proverb, Jewish

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

Peterson, Jill

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb, French

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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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Great thieves punish little ones.

Proverb

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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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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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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 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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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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A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.

Porter, O. Henry

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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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Successful crimes alone are justified.

Dryden, John

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

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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

Horace

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Crime generally punishes itself.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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