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

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

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

Scott, Howard

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

Kraus, Karl

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 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

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

Genet, Jean

Crime generally punishes itself.

Goldsmith, Oliver

Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards.

Farquhar, George

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

Connolly, Cyril

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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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One crime is everything, two is nothing.

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

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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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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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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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Peterson, Jill

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Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

Seneca

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

Huston, John

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

Meredith, Owen

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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 wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.

Democritus

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All criminals turn preachers under the gallows.

Proverb

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

Aristotle

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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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He threatens many that hath injured one.

Jonson, Ben

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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In times of trouble leniency becomes crime.

Proverb

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

Winner, Michael

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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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Successful crimes alone are justified.

Dryden, 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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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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From a single crime know the nation.

Virgil

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Great thieves punish little ones.

Proverb

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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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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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Small crimes always precedes great ones.

Racine, Jean

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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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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