Motivational Quotes

Crime and criminals

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

- Horace

Best Quotes about Crime and criminals

Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society.

Doctorow, E. L.

Successful crimes alone are justified.

Dryden, John

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

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 threatens many that hath injured one.

Jonson, Ben

From a single crime know the nation.

Virgil

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Peterson, Jill

The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Farber, Barry J.

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In times of trouble leniency becomes crime.

Proverb

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

Genet, Jean

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Aristotle

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb, French

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One crime has to be concealed by another.

Seneca

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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 wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.

Democritus

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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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Locks keep out only the honest.

Proverb, Jewish

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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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Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

Seneca

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

Kraus, Karl

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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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Crime generally punishes itself.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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Abscond. To move in a mysterious way, commonly with the property of another.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Scott, Howard

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He has committed the crime who profits by it.

Seneca

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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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Great thieves punish little ones.

Proverb

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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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Small crimes always precedes great ones.

Racine, Jean

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

Horace

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

Plato

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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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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 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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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 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 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