Motivational Quotes

Crime and criminals

Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards.

- Farquhar, George

Best Quotes about Crime and criminals

The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.

Democritus

My rackets are run on strictly American lines and they're going to stay that way.

Capone, Al

Small crimes always precedes great ones.

Racine, Jean

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

Meredith, Owen

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

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

Shakespeare, William

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards.

Farquhar, George

10.

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

11.

Set a thief to catch a thief.

Proverb, French

12.

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

Scott, Howard

13.

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

Peterson, Jill

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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 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

17.

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

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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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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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Locks keep out only the honest.

Proverb, Jewish

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From a single crime know the nation.

Virgil

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One crime has to be concealed by another.

Seneca

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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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Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is also true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on.

Kennedy, John F.

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One crime is everything, two is nothing.

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

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

Farber, Barry J.

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All criminals turn preachers under the gallows.

Proverb

28.

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

30.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Will, George F.

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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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He has committed the crime who profits by it.

Seneca

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

Proverb, French

38.

He threatens many that hath injured one.

Jonson, Ben

39.

Great thieves punish little ones.

Proverb

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

Horace

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

Kraus, Karl

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Successful crimes alone are justified.

Dryden, John

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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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After all, crime is only a left-handed form of human endeavor.

Huston, John

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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There is no crime of which I do not deem myself capable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Waugh, Evelyn