Motivational Quotes

Crime and criminals

All criminals turn preachers under the gallows.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Crime and criminals

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.

In times of trouble leniency becomes crime.

Proverb

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

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

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

Meredith, Owen

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Porter, O. Henry

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

Aristotle

Successful crimes alone are justified.

Dryden, John

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

Plato

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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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All criminals turn preachers under the gallows.

Proverb

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards.

Farquhar, George

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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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Small crimes always precedes great ones.

Racine, Jean

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

Horace

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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 crime persevered in a thousand centuries ceases to be a crime, and becomes a virtue. This is the law of custom, and custom supersedes all other forms of law.

Twain, Mark

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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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The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.

Democritus

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He threatens many that hath injured one.

Jonson, Ben

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

Will, George F.

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One crime is everything, two is nothing.

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

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Set a thief to catch a thief.

Proverb, French

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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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He has committed the crime who profits by it.

Seneca

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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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Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

Seneca

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Winner, Michael

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

Huston, John

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The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Farber, Barry J.

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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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Great thieves punish little ones.

Proverb

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

Scott, Howard

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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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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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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.