Motivational Quotes

Crime and criminals

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.

Best Quotes about Crime and criminals

Slums may well be breeding-grounds of crime, but middle-class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium.

Connolly, Cyril

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

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

Meredith, Owen

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

Kraus, Karl

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

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

Shakespeare, William

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

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

Plato

Great thieves punish little ones.

Proverb

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The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.

Democritus

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

Scott, Howard

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Successful crimes alone are justified.

Dryden, John

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Will, George F.

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

Huston, John

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He threatens many that hath injured one.

Jonson, Ben

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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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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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From a single crime know the nation.

Virgil

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He has committed the crime who profits by it.

Seneca

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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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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 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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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 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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One crime has to be concealed by another.

Seneca

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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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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

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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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 heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.

Hazlitt, William

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

Rabelais, Francois

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

Seneca

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

Farber, Barry J.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Winner, Michael

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

Aristotle

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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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Small crimes always precedes great ones.

Racine, Jean

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

Capone, Al

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One crime is everything, two is nothing.

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe