Motivational Quotes

Crime and criminals

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

- Aristotle

Best Quotes about Crime and criminals

The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.

Democritus

Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

Seneca

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

He threatens many that hath injured one.

Jonson, Ben

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

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)

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

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

Locks keep out only the honest.

Proverb, Jewish

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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Small crimes always precedes great ones.

Racine, Jean

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

Genet, Jean

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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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Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards.

Farquhar, George

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Kraus, Karl

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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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One crime has to be concealed by another.

Seneca

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

Winner, Michael

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

Horace

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

Farber, Barry J.

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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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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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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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One crime is everything, two is nothing.

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Scott, Howard

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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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Successful crimes alone are justified.

Dryden, John

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

Peterson, Jill

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

Will, George F.

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