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Crime and criminals
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.
Best Quotes about Crime and criminals
One crime has to be concealed by another.
Seneca
Set a thief to catch a thief.
Proverb, French
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
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
Successful crimes alone are justified.
Dryden, John
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
Many a man is saved from being a thief by finding everything locked up.
Howe, Edgar Watson
The world of crime is a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event.
Boorstin, Daniel J.
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
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
He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.
Plato
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
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
Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society.
Doctorow, E. L.
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
All criminals turn preachers under the gallows.
Proverb
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
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
Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit.
Adler, Freda
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
We are often deterred from crime by the disgrace of others.
Horace
A person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.
Scott, Howard
Abscond. To move in a mysterious way, commonly with the property of another.
Bierce, Ambrose
Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.
Seneca
Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
Waugh, Evelyn
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
He that is robbed, not wanting what is stolen, let him not know't, and he's notrobbed at all
Shakespeare, William
The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.
Democritus
Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear.
Kraus, Karl
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 expands according to our willingness to put up with it.
Farber, Barry J.
Today more Americans are imprisoned for drug offenses than for property crimes
Will, George F.
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
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
There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.
La Rochefoucauld, Francois De
Small crimes always precedes great ones.
Racine, Jean
One crime is everything, two is nothing.
Deluzy, Madame Dorothe
Great thieves punish little ones.
Proverb
The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.
Bonaparte, Napoleon
My rackets are run on strictly American lines and they're going to stay that way.
Capone, Al
The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
Mencken, H. L.
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
He has 63 ways of getting money, the most common and most honorable ones being stealing, thieving, and robbing.
Rabelais, Francois
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
The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.
Shaw, George Bernard
A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.
Porter, O. Henry
Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards.
Farquhar, George
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
He has committed the crime who profits by it.
Seneca
After all, crime is only a left-handed form of human endeavor.
Huston, John
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