Motivational Quotes

Crime and criminals

Locks keep out only the honest.

- Proverb, Jewish

Best Quotes about Crime and criminals

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.

Successful crimes alone are justified.

Dryden, John

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

The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.

Democritus

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

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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

Crime seems to change character when it crosses a bridge or a tunnel. In the city, crime is taken as emblematic of class and race. In the suburbs, though, it's intimate and psychological -- resistant to generalization, a mystery of the individual soul.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

Meredith, Owen

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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

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Crime generally punishes itself.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Plato

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Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards.

Farquhar, George

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

Capone, Al

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One crime has to be concealed by another.

Seneca

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The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Huston, John

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Great thieves punish little ones.

Proverb

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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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From a single crime know the nation.

Virgil

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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

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Small crimes always precedes great ones.

Racine, Jean

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

Farber, Barry J.

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Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

Seneca

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

Doctorow, E. L.

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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He has committed the crime who profits by it.

Seneca

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

Scott, Howard

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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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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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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In times of trouble leniency becomes crime.

Proverb

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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 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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Locks keep out only the honest.

Proverb, Jewish

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He threatens many that hath injured one.

Jonson, Ben

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