Motivational Quotes

Crime and criminals

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

- Meredith, Owen

Best Quotes about Crime and criminals

Small crimes always precedes great ones.

Racine, Jean

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

Winner, Michael

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

Plato

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

He has committed the crime who profits by it.

Seneca

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

Meredith, Owen

Locks keep out only the honest.

Proverb, Jewish

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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 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 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 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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Successful crimes alone are justified.

Dryden, John

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Kraus, Karl

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The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.

Democritus

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards.

Farquhar, George

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

Capone, Al

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Set a thief to catch a thief.

Proverb, French

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

Huston, John

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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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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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Great thieves punish little ones.

Proverb

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One crime has to be concealed by another.

Seneca

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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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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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From a single crime know the nation.

Virgil

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Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

Seneca

43.

In times of trouble leniency becomes crime.

Proverb

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Crime generally punishes itself.