Motivational Quotes

Crime and criminals

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

Best Quotes about Crime and criminals

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

Scott, Howard

Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards.

Farquhar, George

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

Winner, Michael

One crime is everything, two is nothing.

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

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

Capone, Al

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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.

In times of trouble leniency becomes crime.

Proverb

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

Horace

11.

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

Will, George F.

12.

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

Rabelais, Francois

13.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

14.

He has committed the crime who profits by it.

Seneca

15.

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

Proverb, French

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

Mencken, H. L.

18.

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

19.

Successful crimes alone are justified.

Dryden, John

20.

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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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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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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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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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 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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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

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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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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 heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.

Hazlitt, William

30.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

31.

One crime has to be concealed by another.

Seneca

32.

He threatens many that hath injured one.

Jonson, Ben

33.

Locks keep out only the honest.

Proverb, Jewish

34.

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 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

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

Meredith, Owen

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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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Great thieves punish little ones.

Proverb

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From a single crime know the nation.

Virgil

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

Genet, Jean

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Crime generally punishes itself.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Set a thief to catch a thief.

Proverb, French

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De