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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
Crime and criminals Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Crime and criminals

1.
After all, crime is only a left-handed form of human endeavor.
Huston, John

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.
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

4.
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

5.
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

6.
There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.
La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

7.
Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

8.
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

9.
There is no crime of which I do not deem myself capable.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

10.
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

11.
If poverty is the mother of crime, lack of good sense is the father.
La Bruyere, Jean De

12.
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

13.
The truth of the matter is that muggers are very interesting people.
Winner, Michael

14.
Slums may well be breeding-grounds of crime, but middle-class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium.
Connolly, Cyril

15.
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

16.
From a single crime know the nation.
Virgil

17.
He has committed the crime who profits by it.
Seneca

18.
Abscond. To move in a mysterious way, commonly with the property of another.
Bierce, Ambrose

19.
Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society.
Doctorow, E. L.

20.
A person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.
Scott, Howard

21.
Set a thief to catch a thief.
Proverb, French

22.
One crime has to be concealed by another.
Seneca

23.
The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.
Democritus

24.
The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.
Bonaparte, Napoleon

25.
Locks keep out only the honest.
Proverb, Jewish

26.
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

27.
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

28.
Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.
Genet, Jean

29.
Successful crimes alone are justified.
Dryden, John

30.
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

31.
Great thieves punish little ones.
Proverb

32.
We are often deterred from crime by the disgrace of others.
Horace

33.
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

34.
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

35.
Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards.
Farquhar, George

36.
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)

37.
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

38.
Crime generally punishes itself.
Goldsmith, Oliver

39.
He that is robbed, not wanting what is stolen, let him not know't, and he's notrobbed at all
Shakespeare, William

40.
It is because they took the easy way out that rivers, and people, go crooked.
Peterson, Jill

41.
A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.
Porter, O. Henry

42.
He has 63 ways of getting money, the most common and most honorable ones being stealing, thieving, and robbing.
Rabelais, Francois

43.
Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.
Seneca

44.
Every rascal is not a thief, but every thief is a rascal.
Aristotle

45.
The world of crime is a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event.
Boorstin, Daniel J.

46.
All criminals turn preachers under the gallows.
Proverb

47.
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

48.
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

49.
The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
Mencken, H. L.

50.
Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
Waugh, Evelyn


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