Motivational Quotes

Crime and criminals

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

- Scott, Howard

Best Quotes about Crime and criminals

One crime has to be concealed by another.

Seneca

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

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

Winner, Michael

Great thieves punish little ones.

Proverb

In times of trouble leniency becomes crime.

Proverb

All criminals turn preachers under the gallows.

Proverb

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

Meredith, Owen

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

Capone, Al

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

10.

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

Proverb, French

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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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Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards.

Farquhar, George

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

Farber, Barry J.

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

Rabelais, Francois

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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

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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 infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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Set a thief to catch a thief.

Proverb, French

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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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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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From a single crime know the nation.

Virgil

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Small crimes always precedes great ones.

Racine, Jean

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

Aristotle

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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

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

Will, George F.

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

Scott, Howard

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

Mencken, H. 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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Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

Seneca

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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One crime is everything, two is nothing.

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

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The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.

Democritus

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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

50.

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