Motivational Quotes

Crime and criminals

From a single crime know the nation.

- Virgil

Best Quotes about Crime and criminals

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

He that is robbed, not wanting what is stolen, let him not know't, and he's notrobbed at all

Shakespeare, 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

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.

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

Rabelais, Francois

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

He threatens many that hath injured one.

Jonson, Ben

Successful crimes alone are justified.

Dryden, John

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Scott, Howard

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In times of trouble leniency becomes crime.

Proverb

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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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Great thieves punish little ones.

Proverb

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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

Doctorow, E. L.

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

Kraus, Karl

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

Proverb, French

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The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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All criminals turn preachers under the gallows.

Proverb

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Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards.

Farquhar, George

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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He has committed the crime who profits by it.

Seneca

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From a single crime know the nation.

Virgil

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

Huston, John

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

Winner, Michael

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

Aristotle

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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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Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.

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

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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Crime generally punishes itself.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Peterson, Jill

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Farber, Barry J.

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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.