Motivational Quotes

Crime and criminals

From a single crime know the nation.

- Virgil

Best Quotes about Crime and criminals

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

He threatens many that hath injured one.

Jonson, Ben

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

Meredith, Owen

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

Scott, Howard

Locks keep out only the honest.

Proverb, Jewish

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 when it succeeds is called virtue.

Seneca

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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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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

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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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Successful crimes alone are justified.

Dryden, John

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He has committed the crime who profits by it.

Seneca

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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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Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society.

Doctorow, E. L.

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

Will, George F.

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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 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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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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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 expands according to our willingness to put up with it.

Farber, Barry J.

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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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The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.

Democritus

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All criminals turn preachers under the gallows.

Proverb

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Huston, John

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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

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

Kraus, Karl

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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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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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Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards.

Farquhar, George

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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 faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Aristotle

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Set a thief to catch a thief.

Proverb, French

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

Proverb, French

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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 crime has to be concealed by another.

Seneca

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

Plato

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

Porter, O. Henry