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

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

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

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

Doctorow, E. L.

He has 63 ways of getting money, the most common and most honorable ones being stealing, thieving, and robbing.

Rabelais, Francois

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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

Kraus, Karl

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been.

Arendt, Hannah

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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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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Set a thief to catch a thief.

Proverb, French

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

Proverb, French

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

Huston, John

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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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Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

Seneca

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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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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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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 expands according to our willingness to put up with it.

Farber, Barry J.

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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 crime has to be concealed by another.

Seneca

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

Capone, Al

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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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Locks keep out only the honest.

Proverb, Jewish

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Small crimes always precedes great ones.

Racine, Jean

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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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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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Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards.

Farquhar, George

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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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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 faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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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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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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The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.

Democritus

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

Horace

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Crime generally punishes itself.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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In times of trouble leniency becomes crime.

Proverb

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From a single crime know the nation.

Virgil

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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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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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He threatens many that hath injured one.

Jonson, Ben

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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