Motivational Quotes

Crime and criminals

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

- Huston, John

Best Quotes about Crime and criminals

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

Meredith, Owen

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

Plato

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Genet, Jean

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Porter, O. Henry

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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One crime has to be concealed by another.

Seneca

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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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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Great thieves punish little ones.

Proverb

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

Huston, John

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

Winner, Michael

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.

Democritus

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In times of trouble leniency becomes crime.

Proverb

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All criminals turn preachers under the gallows.

Proverb

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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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Set a thief to catch a thief.

Proverb, French

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Will, George F.

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

Scott, Howard

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

Farber, Barry J.

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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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Small crimes always precedes great ones.

Racine, Jean

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards.

Farquhar, George

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

Horace

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Successful crimes alone are justified.

Dryden, John

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

Aristotle

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

Kraus, Karl

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

Proverb, French

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

Doctorow, E. L.

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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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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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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