Motivational Quotes

Crime and criminals

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

- Waugh, Evelyn

Best Quotes about Crime and criminals

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

Boorstin, Daniel J.

Successful crimes alone are justified.

Dryden, John

The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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

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

Huston, John

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

Kraus, Karl

In times of trouble leniency becomes crime.

Proverb

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

Peterson, Jill

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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

11.

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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Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

Seneca

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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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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 is everything, two is nothing.

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

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He threatens many that hath injured one.

Jonson, Ben

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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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The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.

Democritus

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

Aristotle

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

Horace

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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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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Great thieves punish little ones.

Proverb

26.

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

Proverb, French

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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

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

Scott, Howard

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

Winner, Michael

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From a single crime know the nation.

Virgil

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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 has 63 ways of getting money, the most common and most honorable ones being stealing, thieving, and robbing.

Rabelais, Francois

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

Will, George F.

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

Porter, O. Henry

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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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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 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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Small crimes always precedes great ones.

Racine, Jean

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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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Set a thief to catch a thief.

Proverb, French

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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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All criminals turn preachers under the gallows.

Proverb

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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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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

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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

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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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Locks keep out only the honest.

Proverb, Jewish

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He has committed the crime who profits by it.

Seneca