Motivational Quotes

Crime and criminals

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Crime and criminals

Successful crimes alone are justified.

Dryden, John

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

Porter, O. Henry

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

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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

From a single crime know the nation.

Virgil

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In times of trouble leniency becomes crime.

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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He threatens many that hath injured one.

Jonson, Ben

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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 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

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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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The truth of the matter is that muggers are very interesting people.

Winner, Michael

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

Horace

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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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One crime has to be concealed by another.

Seneca

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

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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

Scott, Howard

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

Farber, Barry J.

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

Kraus, Karl

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Will, George F.

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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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Great thieves punish little ones.

Proverb

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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.

Canetti, Elias

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

Plato

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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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We may live without friends; we may live without books. But civilized men cannot live without cooks.

Meredith, Owen

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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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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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Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

Seneca

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The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Crime generally punishes itself.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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He has committed the crime who profits by it.

Seneca

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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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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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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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Small crimes always precedes great ones.

Racine, Jean

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

Aristotle

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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

La Bruyere, Jean De