Motivational Quotes

Crime and criminals

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

- Bierce, Ambrose

Best Quotes about Crime and criminals

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

Adler, Freda

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.

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

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.

Democritus

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

From a single crime know the nation.

Virgil

All criminals turn preachers under the gallows.

Proverb

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

Huston, John

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Set a thief to catch a thief.

Proverb, French

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

Plato

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

Winner, Michael

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Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society.

Doctorow, E. L.

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

Aristotle

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Kraus, Karl

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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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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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Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards.

Farquhar, George

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

Porter, O. Henry

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One crime has to be concealed by another.

Seneca

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

Proverb, French

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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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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

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Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

Seneca

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One crime is everything, two is nothing.

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

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

Rabelais, Francois

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

Scott, Howard

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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

Shakespeare, William

43.

He threatens many that hath injured one.

Jonson, Ben

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Will, George F.

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The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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