Motivational Quotes

Crime and criminals

Great thieves punish little ones.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Crime and criminals

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

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

Proverb, French

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Doctorow, E. L.

All criminals turn preachers under the gallows.

Proverb

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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 wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.

Democritus

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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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Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards.

Farquhar, George

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

Aristotle

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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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Locks keep out only the honest.

Proverb, Jewish

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

Peterson, Jill

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

Plato

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Crime generally punishes itself.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Huston, John

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He has committed the crime who profits by it.

Seneca

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He threatens many that hath injured one.

Jonson, Ben

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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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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From a single crime know the nation.

Virgil

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Will, George F.

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The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

Seneca

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One crime has to be concealed by another.

Seneca

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Set a thief to catch a thief.

Proverb, French

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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 expands according to our willingness to put up with it.

Farber, Barry J.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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.