Motivational Quotes

Crime and criminals

In times of trouble leniency becomes crime.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Crime and criminals

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

Farber, Barry J.

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.

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

Scott, Howard

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

Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit.

Adler, Freda

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.

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

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

Plato

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Porter, O. Henry

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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From a single crime know the nation.

Virgil

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Small crimes always precedes great ones.

Racine, Jean

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Great thieves punish little ones.

Proverb

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

Kraus, Karl

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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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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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He has committed the crime who profits by it.

Seneca

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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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One crime has to be concealed by another.

Seneca

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

Aristotle

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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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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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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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Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

Seneca

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Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards.

Farquhar, George

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

Huston, John

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Successful crimes alone are justified.

Dryden, John

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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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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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All criminals turn preachers under the gallows.

Proverb

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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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Crime generally punishes itself.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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He threatens many that hath injured one.

Jonson, Ben

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

Will, George F.

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

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

Meredith, Owen

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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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The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.

Democritus

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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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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