Motivational Quotes

Crime and criminals

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

- Rabelais, Francois

Best Quotes about Crime and criminals

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Huston, John

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

Scott, Howard

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.

Democritus

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

Peterson, Jill

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

Connolly, Cyril

From a single crime know the nation.

Virgil

10.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

Seneca

12.

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

Kraus, Karl

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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

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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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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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Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards.

Farquhar, George

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In times of trouble leniency becomes crime.

Proverb

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

Winner, Michael

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One crime is everything, two is nothing.

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

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

Aristotle

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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

26.

Small crimes always precedes great ones.

Racine, Jean

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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He has committed the crime who profits by it.

Seneca

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

Proverb, French

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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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Set a thief to catch a thief.

Proverb, French

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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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The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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He threatens many that hath injured one.

Jonson, Ben

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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 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

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

Doctorow, E. L.

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