Motivational Quotes

Crime and criminals

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

- Plato

Best Quotes about Crime and criminals

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Connolly, Cyril

Crime generally punishes itself.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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

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

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

Capone, Al

Set a thief to catch a thief.

Proverb, French

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

Horace

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Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards.

Farquhar, George

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

Will, George F.

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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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Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

Seneca

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The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.

Democritus

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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Locks keep out only the honest.

Proverb, Jewish

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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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One crime has to be concealed by another.

Seneca

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

Huston, John

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Farber, Barry J.

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

Proverb, French

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He has committed the crime who profits by it.

Seneca

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

Plato

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The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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 faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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From a single crime know the nation.

Virgil

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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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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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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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Great thieves punish little ones.

Proverb

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

Winner, Michael

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All criminals turn preachers under the gallows.

Proverb

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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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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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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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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