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

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

Scott, Howard

Crime generally punishes itself.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Winner, Michael

In times of trouble leniency becomes crime.

Proverb

Locks keep out only the honest.

Proverb, Jewish

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

Farber, Barry J.

Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

Seneca

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

10.

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

Doctorow, E. L.

11.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

12.

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

Proverb, French

13.

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

Peterson, Jill

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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.

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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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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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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

18.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

19.

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

Huston, John

21.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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Successful crimes alone are justified.

Dryden, John

31.

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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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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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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From a single crime know the nation.

Virgil

35.

All criminals turn preachers under the gallows.

Proverb

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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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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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He threatens many that hath injured one.

Jonson, Ben

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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

40.

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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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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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

44.

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

Horace

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He has committed the crime who profits by it.

Seneca

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Small crimes always precedes great ones.

Racine, Jean

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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