Motivational Quotes

Crime and criminals

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)

Best Quotes about Crime and criminals

In times of trouble leniency becomes crime.

Proverb

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

Horace

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

Genet, Jean

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

Huston, John

Great thieves punish little ones.

Proverb

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Porter, O. Henry

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

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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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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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 faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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

Will, George F.

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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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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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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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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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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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Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

Seneca

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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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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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All criminals turn preachers under the gallows.

Proverb

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

Connolly, Cyril

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Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards.

Farquhar, George

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

Aristotle

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

Farber, Barry J.

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He has committed the crime who profits by it.

Seneca

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Set a thief to catch a thief.

Proverb, French

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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From a single crime know the nation.

Virgil

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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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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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My rackets are run on strictly American lines and they're going to stay that way.

Capone, Al

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 threatens many that hath injured one.