Best Quotes about Crime and criminals
Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.
Seneca
Save a thief from the gallows and he will cut your throat.
Proverb, French
From a single crime know the nation.
Virgil
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
Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear.
Kraus, Karl
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
He threatens many that hath injured one.
Jonson, Ben
My rackets are run on strictly American lines and they're going to stay that way.
Capone, Al
Every rascal is not a thief, but every thief is a rascal.
Aristotle
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
It is because they took the easy way out that rivers, and people, go crooked.
Peterson, Jill
Set a thief to catch a thief.
Proverb, French
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
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
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
He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.
Plato
Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.
Genet, Jean
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
There is no crime of which I do not deem myself capable.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
Many a man is saved from being a thief by finding everything locked up.
Howe, Edgar Watson
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)
The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.
Bonaparte, Napoleon
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 that is robbed, not wanting what is stolen, let him not know't, and he's notrobbed at all
Shakespeare, William
In times of trouble leniency becomes crime.
Proverb
All criminals turn preachers under the gallows.
Proverb
The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.
Democritus
One crime is everything, two is nothing.
Deluzy, Madame Dorothe
The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.
Shaw, George Bernard
Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards.
Farquhar, George
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
If poverty is the mother of crime, lack of good sense is the father.
La Bruyere, Jean De
Successful crimes alone are justified.
Dryden, John
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
One crime has to be concealed by another.
Seneca
A person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.
Scott, Howard
The truth of the matter is that muggers are very interesting people.
Winner, Michael
The world of crime is a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event.
Boorstin, Daniel J.
Slums may well be breeding-grounds of crime, but middle-class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium.
Connolly, Cyril
Crime generally punishes itself.
Goldsmith, Oliver
Crime expands according to our willingness to put up with it.
Farber, Barry J.
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
Abscond. To move in a mysterious way, commonly with the property of another.
Bierce, Ambrose
The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
Mencken, H. L.
A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.
Porter, O. Henry
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
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
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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