Motivational Quotes

Crime and criminals

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

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Crime and criminals

Crime generally punishes itself.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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

Horace

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Successful crimes alone are justified.

Dryden, John

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He threatens many that hath injured one.

Jonson, Ben

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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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The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.

Democritus

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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

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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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One crime is everything, two is nothing.

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

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

Kraus, Karl

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In times of trouble leniency becomes crime.

Proverb

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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One crime has to be concealed by another.

Seneca

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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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From a single crime know the nation.

Virgil

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Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

Seneca

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

Genet, Jean

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

Scott, Howard

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

Meredith, Owen

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

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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Locks keep out only the honest.

Proverb, Jewish

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

Capone, Al

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Farber, Barry J.

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Set a thief to catch a thief.

Proverb, French

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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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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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He has committed the crime who profits by it.

Seneca