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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Connolly, Cyril

All criminals turn preachers under the gallows.

Proverb

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.

Democritus

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

Doctorow, E. L.

He has committed the crime who profits by it.

Seneca

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

Set a thief to catch a thief.

Proverb, French

10.

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

Mencken, H. L.

11.

Small crimes always precedes great ones.

Racine, Jean

12.

In times of trouble leniency becomes crime.

Proverb

13.

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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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

15.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

16.

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

17.

Successful crimes alone are justified.

Dryden, John

18.

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

Peterson, Jill

19.

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

20.

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

Huston, John

21.

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.

22.

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

Winner, Michael

23.

Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards.

Farquhar, George

24.

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

Proverb, French

25.

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

Kraus, Karl

27.

One crime is everything, two is nothing.

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

28.

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

Waugh, Evelyn

29.

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

Farber, Barry J.

30.

Great thieves punish little ones.

Proverb

31.

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

Aristotle

32.

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

Capone, Al

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Plato

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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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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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He threatens many that hath injured one.

Jonson, Ben

39.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

40.

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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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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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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Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

Seneca

44.

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

45.

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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Locks keep out only the honest.

Proverb, Jewish

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One crime has to be concealed by another.

Seneca

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo