Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about 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.

From a single crime know the nation.

Virgil

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

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

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

Plato

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

Huston, John

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

Peterson, Jill

10.

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

Porter, O. Henry

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

Connolly, Cyril

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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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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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Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

Seneca

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

Winner, Michael

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He has committed the crime who profits by it.

Seneca

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

Scott, Howard

24.

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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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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

29.

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

Shakespeare, William

30.

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

31.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Horace

33.

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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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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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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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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All criminals turn preachers under the gallows.

Proverb

39.

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

Will, George F.

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Crime generally punishes itself.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Successful crimes alone are justified.

Dryden, John

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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.

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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 infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

45.

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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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)

47.

Great thieves punish little ones.

Proverb

48.

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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One crime has to be concealed by another.