Motivational Quotes

Crime and criminals

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

- Winner, Michael

Best Quotes about Crime and criminals

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

Capone, Al

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

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

The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.

Democritus

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

Farber, Barry J.

Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards.

Farquhar, George

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

Winner, Michael

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Will, George F.

10.

For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.

Camus, Albert

11.

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

Scott, Howard

12.

Small crimes always precedes great ones.

Racine, Jean

13.

Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

Seneca

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

17.

Locks keep out only the honest.

Proverb, Jewish

18.

Great thieves punish little ones.

Proverb

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

Porter, O. Henry

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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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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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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 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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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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The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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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.

30.

Set a thief to catch a thief.

Proverb, French

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He has committed the crime who profits by it.

Seneca

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

Peterson, Jill

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Plato

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Aristotle

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One crime has to be concealed by another.

Seneca

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

Huston, John

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

Shakespeare, William

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He threatens many that hath injured one.

Jonson, Ben

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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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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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