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

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

Proverb, French

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

Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

Seneca

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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 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.

Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit.

Adler, Freda

Successful crimes alone are justified.

Dryden, John

From a single crime know the nation.

Virgil

10.

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

Porter, O. Henry

11.

One crime has to be concealed by another.

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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The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.

Democritus

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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

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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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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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

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Crime generally punishes itself.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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It is because they took the easy way out that rivers, and people, go crooked.

Peterson, Jill

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

Genet, Jean

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Set a thief to catch a thief.

Proverb, French

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Small crimes always precedes great ones.

Racine, Jean

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Plato

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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 infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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 has committed the crime who profits by it.

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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Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards.

Farquhar, George

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

Meredith, Owen

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One crime is everything, two is nothing.

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

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

Kraus, Karl

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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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In times of trouble leniency becomes crime.

Proverb

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

Farber, Barry J.

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

Boorstin, Daniel J.