Motivational Quotes

Crime and criminals

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

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Crime and criminals

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Doctorow, E. L.

He threatens many that hath injured one.

Jonson, Ben

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

Great thieves punish little ones.

Proverb

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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

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

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

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

Winner, Michael

11.

Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

Seneca

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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

13.

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

Aristotle

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

Horace

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From a single crime know the nation.

Virgil

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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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He has committed the crime who profits by it.

Seneca

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

Farber, Barry J.

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

Huston, John

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Kraus, Karl

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In times of trouble leniency becomes crime.

Proverb

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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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Many a man is saved from being a thief by finding everything locked up.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

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

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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

Genet, Jean

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

Scott, Howard

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

Plato

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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 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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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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Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards.

Farquhar, George

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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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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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If poverty is the mother of crime, lack of good sense is the father.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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One crime has to be concealed by another.

Seneca

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

Peterson, Jill

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One crime is everything, two is nothing.

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe