Motivational Quotes

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.

Best Quotes about Crime and criminals

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

Scott, Howard

From a single crime know the nation.

Virgil

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

Meredith, Owen

One crime is everything, two is nothing.

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

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

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.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Rabelais, Francois

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Locks keep out only the honest.

Proverb, Jewish

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

Horace

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

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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

Aristotle

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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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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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Small crimes always precedes great ones.

Racine, Jean

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

Porter, O. Henry

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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In times of trouble leniency becomes crime.

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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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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Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards.

Farquhar, George

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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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He threatens many that hath injured one.

Jonson, Ben

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Will, George F.

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The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.

Democritus

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

Farber, Barry J.

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Set a thief to catch a thief.

Proverb, French

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Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

Seneca

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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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All criminals turn preachers under the gallows.

Proverb

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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 generally punishes itself.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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One crime has to be concealed by another.

Seneca

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Successful crimes alone are justified.

Dryden, John

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

Winner, Michael

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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