Motivational Quotes

Crime and criminals

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

- Peterson, Jill

Best Quotes about Crime and criminals

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

One crime has to be concealed by another.

Seneca

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.

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

Aristotle

He has committed the crime who profits by it.

Seneca

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

Porter, O. Henry

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

Seneca

The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.

Democritus

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He threatens many that hath injured one.

Jonson, Ben

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

Scott, Howard

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

Horace

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Set a thief to catch a thief.

Proverb, French

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

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Plato

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

Farber, Barry J.

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

Genet, Jean

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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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Successful crimes alone are justified.

Dryden, John

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Small crimes always precedes great ones.

Racine, Jean

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Today more Americans are imprisoned for drug offenses than for property crimes

Will, George F.

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In times of trouble leniency becomes crime.

Proverb

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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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All criminals turn preachers under the gallows.

Proverb

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

Huston, John

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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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Crime generally punishes itself.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards.

Farquhar, George

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

Waugh, Evelyn