Motivational Quotes

Crime and criminals

Crime generally punishes itself.

- Goldsmith, Oliver

Best Quotes about Crime and criminals

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.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

Crime generally punishes itself.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Successful crimes alone are justified.

Dryden, John

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)

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

Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

Seneca

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

Farber, Barry J.

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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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Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards.

Farquhar, George

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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 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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Small crimes always precedes great ones.

Racine, Jean

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

Scott, Howard

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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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In times of trouble leniency becomes crime.

Proverb

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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

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

Connolly, Cyril

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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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Locks keep out only the honest.

Proverb, Jewish

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

Huston, John

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Genet, Jean

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

Will, George F.

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Set a thief to catch a thief.

Proverb, French

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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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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All criminals turn preachers under the gallows.

Proverb

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From a single crime know the nation.

Virgil

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