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

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

Doctorow, E. L.

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

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.

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

One crime is everything, two is nothing.

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

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

Farber, Barry J.

Locks keep out only the honest.

Proverb, Jewish

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

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

Meredith, Owen

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

Scott, Howard

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

Huston, John

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

Horace

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Set a thief to catch a thief.

Proverb, French

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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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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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He has committed the crime who profits by it.

Seneca

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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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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.

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Successful crimes alone are justified.

Dryden, John

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

Proverb, French

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

Winner, Michael

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Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

Seneca

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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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Small crimes always precedes great ones.

Racine, Jean

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

Plato

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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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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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Great thieves punish little ones.

Proverb

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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From a single crime know the nation.

Virgil

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Genet, Jean

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards.