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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
Crime and criminals Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Crime and criminals

1.
Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
Waugh, Evelyn

2.
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.

3.
Great thieves punish little ones.
Proverb

4.
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

5.
Slums may well be breeding-grounds of crime, but middle-class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium.
Connolly, Cyril

6.
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

7.
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

8.
The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.
Shaw, George Bernard

9.
Crime generally punishes itself.
Goldsmith, Oliver

10.
He that is robbed, not wanting what is stolen, let him not know't, and he's notrobbed at all
Shakespeare, William

11.
Many a man is saved from being a thief by finding everything locked up.
Howe, Edgar Watson

12.
Every rascal is not a thief, but every thief is a rascal.
Aristotle

13.
After all, crime is only a left-handed form of human endeavor.
Huston, John

14.
One crime has to be concealed by another.
Seneca

15.
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

16.
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

17.
In times of trouble leniency becomes crime.
Proverb

18.
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)

19.
A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.
Porter, O. Henry

20.
Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit.
Adler, Freda

21.
There is no crime of which I do not deem myself capable.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

22.
Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

23.
He threatens many that hath injured one.
Jonson, Ben

24.
All criminals turn preachers under the gallows.
Proverb

25.
Set a thief to catch a thief.
Proverb, French

26.
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

27.
The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.
Bonaparte, Napoleon

28.
The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.
Democritus

29.
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

30.
Crime expands according to our willingness to put up with it.
Farber, Barry J.

31.
We are often deterred from crime by the disgrace of others.
Horace

32.
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

33.
He has 63 ways of getting money, the most common and most honorable ones being stealing, thieving, and robbing.
Rabelais, Francois

34.
From a single crime know the nation.
Virgil

35.
Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.
Seneca

36.
The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
Mencken, H. L.

37.
One crime is everything, two is nothing.
Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

38.
Locks keep out only the honest.
Proverb, Jewish

39.
He has committed the crime who profits by it.
Seneca

40.
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

41.
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

42.
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

43.
Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear.
Kraus, Karl

44.
It is because they took the easy way out that rivers, and people, go crooked.
Peterson, Jill

45.
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

46.
He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.
Plato

47.
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.

48.
There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.
La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

49.
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

50.
If poverty is the mother of crime, lack of good sense is the father.
La Bruyere, Jean De


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