Motivational Quotes

Crime and criminals

Crime generally punishes itself.

- Goldsmith, Oliver

Best Quotes about Crime and criminals

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

Great thieves punish little ones.

Proverb

From a single crime know the nation.

Virgil

Set a thief to catch a thief.

Proverb, French

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Shakespeare, William

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

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.

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

Connolly, Cyril

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The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.

Democritus

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

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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

Aristotle

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He has committed the crime who profits by it.

Seneca

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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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Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.

Genet, Jean

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

Will, George F.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Porter, O. Henry

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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One crime has to be concealed by another.

Seneca

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All criminals turn preachers under the gallows.

Proverb

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

Peterson, Jill

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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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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Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards.

Farquhar, George

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

Kraus, Karl

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

Plato

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

Horace

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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

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

Proverb, French

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

Huston, John