Motivational Quotes

Crime and criminals

He has 63 ways of getting money, the most common and most honorable ones being stealing, thieving, and robbing.

- Rabelais, Francois

Best Quotes about Crime and criminals

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

Meredith, Owen

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

Kraus, Karl

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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

Huston, John

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

Plato

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

Peterson, Jill

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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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

12.

Locks keep out only the honest.

Proverb, Jewish

13.

Successful crimes alone are justified.

Dryden, John

14.

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

Porter, O. Henry

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

Boorstin, Daniel J.

18.

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

Will, George F.

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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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Small crimes always precedes great ones.

Racine, Jean

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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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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

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

Doctorow, E. L.

27.

Set a thief to catch a thief.

Proverb, French

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Horace

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

Shaw, George Bernard

34.

Great thieves punish little ones.

Proverb

35.

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 generally punishes itself.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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He threatens many that hath injured one.

Jonson, Ben

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Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

Seneca

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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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One crime has to be concealed by another.

Seneca

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

Proverb, French

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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