Motivational Quotes

Crime and criminals

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

Best Quotes about Crime and criminals

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

Genet, Jean

He threatens many that hath injured one.

Jonson, Ben

Locks keep out only the honest.

Proverb, Jewish

One crime is everything, two is nothing.

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

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

Proverb, French

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

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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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From a single crime know the nation.

Virgil

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

Horace

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

Plato

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All criminals turn preachers under the gallows.

Proverb

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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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Crime generally punishes itself.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Aristotle

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Small crimes always precedes great ones.

Racine, Jean

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Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards.

Farquhar, George

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

Meredith, Owen

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Successful crimes alone are justified.

Dryden, John

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

Huston, John

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

Winner, Michael

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

Seneca

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

Doctorow, E. L.

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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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Great thieves punish little ones.

Proverb

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

Scott, Howard

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

Capone, Al

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

Porter, O. Henry

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