Motivational Quotes

Crime and criminals

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

Best Quotes about Crime and criminals

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

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)

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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

Hazlitt, William

Successful crimes alone are justified.

Dryden, John

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

Huston, John

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

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

10.

He has committed the crime who profits by it.

Seneca

11.

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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One crime has to be concealed by another.

Seneca

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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Locks keep out only the honest.

Proverb, Jewish

15.

Crime generally punishes itself.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Peterson, Jill

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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

19.

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

Will, George F.

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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

21.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Scott, Howard

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Connolly, Cyril

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All criminals turn preachers under the gallows.

Proverb

32.

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

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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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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The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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From a single crime know the nation.

Virgil

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

Proverb, French

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The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.

Democritus

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

Horace

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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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Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards.

Farquhar, George

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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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Set a thief to catch a thief.

Proverb, French

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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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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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Great thieves punish little ones.