Motivational Quotes

Crime and criminals

One crime is everything, two is nothing.

- Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

Best Quotes about Crime and criminals

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

Aristotle

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

He has committed the crime who profits by it.

Seneca

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

Farber, Barry J.

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

In times of trouble leniency becomes crime.

Proverb

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

One crime is everything, two is nothing.

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

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

10.

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

Proverb, French

11.

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

Kraus, Karl

12.

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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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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From a single crime know the nation.

Virgil

15.

Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

Seneca

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All criminals turn preachers under the gallows.

Proverb

17.

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

Will, George F.

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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

19.

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

Genet, Jean

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Crime generally punishes itself.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Scott, Howard

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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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The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Boorstin, Daniel J.

28.

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

Plato

30.

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

Huston, John

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

Waugh, Evelyn

33.

Locks keep out only the honest.

Proverb, Jewish

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The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.

Democritus

35.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Porter, O. Henry

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

Peterson, Jill

41.

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

Shakespeare, William

42.

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

43.

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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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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One crime has to be concealed by another.

Seneca

46.

He threatens many that hath injured one.

Jonson, Ben

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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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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.

Set a thief to catch a thief.

Proverb, French

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

Horace