Motivational Quotes

Crime and criminals

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

- Connolly, Cyril

Best Quotes about Crime and criminals

From a single crime know the nation.

Virgil

Set a thief to catch a thief.

Proverb, French

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

Huston, John

Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

Seneca

Many a man is saved from being a thief by finding everything locked up.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Farber, Barry J.

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

Mencken, H. L.

The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Successful crimes alone are justified.

Dryden, John

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

Aristotle

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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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My rackets are run on strictly American lines and they're going to stay that way.

Capone, Al

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Crime generally punishes itself.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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All criminals turn preachers under the gallows.

Proverb

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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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Locks keep out only the honest.

Proverb, Jewish

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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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.

Democritus

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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There is no society known where a more or less developed criminality is not found under different forms. No people exists whose morality is not daily infringed upon. We must therefore call crime necessary and declare that it cannot be non-existent, that the fundamental conditions of social organization, as they are understood, logically imply it.

Durkheim, Emile

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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

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

Peterson, Jill

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

Horace

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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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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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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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One crime has to be concealed by another.

Seneca

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In times of trouble leniency becomes crime.

Proverb

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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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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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Doctorow, E. L.

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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.