Motivational Quotes

Crime and criminals

Small crimes always precedes great ones.

- Racine, Jean

Best Quotes about Crime and criminals

Small crimes always precedes great ones.

Racine, Jean

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

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

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)

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

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

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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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Set a thief to catch a thief.

Proverb, French

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He threatens many that hath injured one.

Jonson, Ben

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

Capone, Al

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

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

Will, George F.

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Locks keep out only the honest.

Proverb, Jewish

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

Huston, John

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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

Porter, O. Henry

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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.

Horace

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Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards.

Farquhar, George

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

Kraus, Karl

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Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

Seneca

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

Genet, Jean

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

Aristotle

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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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Successful crimes alone are justified.

Dryden, John

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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 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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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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He has committed the crime who profits by it.

Seneca

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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One crime has to be concealed by another.

Seneca

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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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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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The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.

Democritus