Motivational Quotes

Crime and criminals

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

Best Quotes about Crime and criminals

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

Kraus, Karl

George, Henry

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

Horace

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Capone, Al

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.

Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

Seneca

The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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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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Crime generally punishes itself.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Winner, Michael

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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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All criminals turn preachers under the gallows.

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

Meredith, Owen

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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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Great thieves punish little ones.

Proverb

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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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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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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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The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.

Democritus

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Small crimes always precedes great ones.

Racine, Jean

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

Huston, John

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One crime is everything, two is nothing.

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

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He has committed the crime who profits by it.

Seneca

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One crime has to be concealed by another.

Seneca

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

Scott, Howard

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Successful crimes alone are justified.

Dryden, John

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

Farber, Barry J.

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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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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He threatens many that hath injured one.

Jonson, Ben

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Locks keep out only the honest.

Proverb, Jewish

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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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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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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 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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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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In times of trouble leniency becomes crime.

Proverb

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From a single crime know the nation.

Virgil

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Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards.

Farquhar, George

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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

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

Aristotle

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

Shakespeare, William