Best Quotes about Crime and criminals
Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit.
Adler, Freda
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
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
Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.
Genet, Jean
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
Crime expands according to our willingness to put up with it.
Farber, Barry J.
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
Small crimes always precedes great ones.
Racine, Jean
Great thieves punish little ones.
Proverb
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
Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards.
Farquhar, George
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
A person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.
Scott, Howard
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
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
The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.
Shaw, George Bernard
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
Every rascal is not a thief, but every thief is a rascal.
Aristotle
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
There is no crime of which I do not deem myself capable.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society.
Doctorow, E. L.
Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
In times of trouble leniency becomes crime.
Proverb
There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.
Hazlitt, William
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
Slums may well be breeding-grounds of crime, but middle-class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium.
Connolly, Cyril
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
A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.
Porter, O. Henry
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
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
Locks keep out only the honest.
Proverb, Jewish
Successful crimes alone are justified.
Dryden, John
The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.
Bonaparte, Napoleon
All criminals turn preachers under the gallows.
Proverb
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
It is because they took the easy way out that rivers, and people, go crooked.
Peterson, Jill
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
From a single crime know the nation.
Virgil
He has committed the crime who profits by it.
Seneca
One crime has to be concealed by another.
Seneca
He has 63 ways of getting money, the most common and most honorable ones being stealing, thieving, and robbing.
Rabelais, Francois
The world of crime is a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event.
Boorstin, Daniel J.
If poverty is the mother of crime, lack of good sense is the father.
La Bruyere, Jean De
We may live without friends; we may live without books. But civilized men cannot live without cooks.
Meredith, Owen
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
My rackets are run on strictly American lines and they're going to stay that way.
Capone, Al
No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been.
Arendt, Hannah
Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.
Seneca
Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
Waugh, Evelyn
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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