Motivational Quotes

Crime and criminals

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

Best Quotes about Crime and criminals

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 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

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

From a single crime know the nation.

Virgil

Slums may well be breeding-grounds of crime, but middle-class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium.

Connolly, Cyril

Small crimes always precedes great ones.

Racine, Jean

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

Farber, Barry J.

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

Plato

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The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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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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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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Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards.

Farquhar, George

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Aristotle

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

Scott, Howard

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

Proverb, French

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In times of trouble leniency becomes crime.

Proverb

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

Kraus, Karl

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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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Crime generally punishes itself.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Horace

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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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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Great thieves punish little ones.

Proverb

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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 wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.

Democritus

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

Will, George F.

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Locks keep out only the honest.

Proverb, Jewish

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He threatens many that hath injured one.

Jonson, Ben

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Successful crimes alone are justified.

Dryden, John

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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One crime is everything, two is nothing.

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

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

Winner, Michael

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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