Motivational Quotes

Crime and criminals

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

Best Quotes about Crime and criminals

One crime is everything, two is nothing.

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

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

In times of trouble leniency becomes crime.

Proverb

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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)

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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Successful crimes alone are justified.

Dryden, John

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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

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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He threatens many that hath injured one.

Jonson, Ben

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The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.

Democritus

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

Will, George F.

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All criminals turn preachers under the gallows.

Proverb

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

Winner, Michael

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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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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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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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Small crimes always precedes great ones.

Racine, Jean

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One crime has to be concealed by another.

Seneca

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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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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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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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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 world of crime is a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Mencken, H. L.

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The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Aristotle

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

Farber, Barry J.

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

Genet, Jean

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

Scott, Howard

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

Porter, O. Henry

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Great thieves punish little ones.

Proverb

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

Kraus, Karl

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Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards.

Farquhar, George

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

Proverb, French

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

Meredith, Owen

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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