Motivational Quotes

Crime and criminals

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

- Horace

Best Quotes about Crime and criminals

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

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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

Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

Seneca

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.

Set a thief to catch a thief.

Proverb, French

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

From a single crime know the nation.

Virgil

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

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

Huston, John

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He threatens many that hath injured one.

Jonson, Ben

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

Aristotle

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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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Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards.

Farquhar, George

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All criminals turn preachers under the gallows.

Proverb

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Locks keep out only the honest.

Proverb, Jewish

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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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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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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

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

Winner, Michael

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Plato

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One crime is everything, two is nothing.

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

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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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The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.

Democritus

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

Kraus, Karl

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

Porter, O. Henry

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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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He has committed the crime who profits by it.

Seneca

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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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Small crimes always precedes great ones.

Racine, Jean

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

Horace

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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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In times of trouble leniency becomes crime.

Proverb

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

Genet, Jean

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