Motivational Quotes

Crime and criminals

Set a thief to catch a thief.

- Proverb, French

Best Quotes about Crime and criminals

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

Winner, Michael

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

Capone, Al

Great thieves punish little ones.

Proverb

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

Kraus, Karl

All criminals turn preachers under the gallows.

Proverb

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

Shakespeare, William

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

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

Proverb, French

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

Scott, Howard

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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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Successful crimes alone are justified.

Dryden, John

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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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One crime is everything, two is nothing.

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

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He has committed the crime who profits by it.

Seneca

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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 wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.

Democritus

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Set a thief to catch a thief.

Proverb, French

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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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Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards.

Farquhar, George

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Meredith, Owen

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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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From a single crime know the nation.

Virgil

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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

Peterson, Jill

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The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Farber, Barry J.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Crime generally punishes itself.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Aristotle

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Huston, John