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

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Huston, John

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

Successful crimes alone are justified.

Dryden, John

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

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

Porter, O. Henry

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

Waugh, Evelyn

The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.

Democritus

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

Aristotle

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

Capone, Al

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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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All criminals turn preachers under the gallows.

Proverb

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Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards.

Farquhar, George

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

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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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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One crime has to be concealed by another.

Seneca

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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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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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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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

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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 faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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He threatens many that hath injured one.

Jonson, Ben

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Scott, Howard

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

Horace

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

Plato

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

Winner, Michael

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In times of trouble leniency becomes crime.

Proverb

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

Farber, Barry J.

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Small crimes always precedes great ones.

Racine, Jean

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Kraus, Karl

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Great thieves punish little ones.

Proverb

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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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One crime is everything, two is nothing.

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

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From a single crime know the nation.

Virgil

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Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

Seneca