Motivational Quotes

Crime and criminals

One crime is everything, two is nothing.

- Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

Best Quotes about Crime and criminals

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)

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

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

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

Peterson, Jill

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

Small crimes always precedes great ones.

Racine, Jean

He threatens many that hath injured one.

Jonson, Ben

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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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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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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He has committed the crime who profits by it.

Seneca

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

Horace

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

Kraus, Karl

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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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From a single crime know the nation.

Virgil

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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 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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Crime generally punishes itself.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Locks keep out only the honest.

Proverb, Jewish

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

Plato

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Great thieves punish little ones.

Proverb

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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 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, 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

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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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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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The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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One crime is everything, two is nothing.

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

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

Doctorow, E. L.

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One crime has to be concealed by another.

Seneca

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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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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 when it succeeds is called virtue.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Porter, O. Henry

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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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All criminals turn preachers under the gallows.

Proverb

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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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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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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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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