Motivational Quotes

Crime and criminals

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

- Porter, O. Henry

Best Quotes about Crime and criminals

1.

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

Rabelais, Francois

2.

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

Horace

3.

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

4.

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

5.

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

6.

Successful crimes alone are justified.

Dryden, John

7.

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

8.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

9.

There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.

Hazlitt, William

10.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

11.

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

Porter, O. Henry

12.

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.

13.

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

14.

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

Scott, Howard

15.

He threatens many that hath injured one.

Jonson, Ben

16.

Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

Seneca

17.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

18.

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

Farber, Barry J.

19.

All criminals turn preachers under the gallows.

Proverb

20.

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

21.

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

Kraus, Karl

22.

Set a thief to catch a thief.

Proverb, French

23.

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

Connolly, Cyril

24.

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

Mencken, H. L.

25.

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

Capone, Al

26.

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

Proverb, French

27.

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

Winner, Michael

28.

Locks keep out only the honest.

Proverb, Jewish

29.

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.

30.

Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

31.

From a single crime know the nation.

Virgil

32.

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

Huston, John

33.

He has committed the crime who profits by it.

Seneca

34.

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

35.

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

Boorstin, Daniel J.

36.

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

Shakespeare, William

37.

The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.

Democritus

38.

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

Doctorow, E. L.

39.

Crime generally punishes itself.

Goldsmith, Oliver

40.

Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards.

Farquhar, George

41.

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

42.

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)

43.

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

44.

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

Will, George F.

45.

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

Peterson, Jill

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

Genet, Jean

49.

One crime is everything, two is nothing.

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

50.

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