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Crime and criminals

Set a thief to catch a thief.
- Proverb, French
Crime and criminals Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Crime and criminals

1.
Save a thief from the gallows and he will cut your throat.
Proverb, French

2.
From a single crime know the nation.
Virgil

3.
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

4.
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

5.
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

6.
Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit.
Adler, Freda

7.
The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.
Democritus

8.
Abscond. To move in a mysterious way, commonly with the property of another.
Bierce, Ambrose

9.
Every rascal is not a thief, but every thief is a rascal.
Aristotle

10.
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)

11.
Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards.
Farquhar, George

12.
The world of crime is a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event.
Boorstin, Daniel J.

13.
There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.
La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

14.
In times of trouble leniency becomes crime.
Proverb

15.
One crime has to be concealed by another.
Seneca

16.
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

17.
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

18.
A person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.
Scott, Howard

19.
There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.
Hazlitt, William

20.
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

21.
Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear.
Kraus, Karl

22.
Locks keep out only the honest.
Proverb, Jewish

23.
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

24.
One crime is everything, two is nothing.
Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

25.
He has 63 ways of getting money, the most common and most honorable ones being stealing, thieving, and robbing.
Rabelais, Francois

26.
Successful crimes alone are justified.
Dryden, John

27.
It is because they took the easy way out that rivers, and people, go crooked.
Peterson, Jill

28.
If poverty is the mother of crime, lack of good sense is the father.
La Bruyere, Jean De

29.
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

30.
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

31.
A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.
Porter, O. Henry

32.
All criminals turn preachers under the gallows.
Proverb

33.
Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.
Seneca

34.
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

35.
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

36.
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.

37.
Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society.
Doctorow, E. L.

38.
Crime expands according to our willingness to put up with it.
Farber, Barry J.

39.
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

40.
The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.
Bonaparte, Napoleon

41.
The truth of the matter is that muggers are very interesting people.
Winner, Michael

42.
Small crimes always precedes great ones.
Racine, Jean

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.
There is no crime of which I do not deem myself capable.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

45.
Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.
Genet, Jean

46.
He that is robbed, not wanting what is stolen, let him not know't, and he's notrobbed at all
Shakespeare, William

47.
The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
Mencken, H. L.

48.
The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.
Shaw, George Bernard

49.
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

50.
Set a thief to catch a thief.
Proverb, French


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