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

1.

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

Connolly, Cyril

2.

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

3.

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

Huston, John

4.

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

5.

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

Kraus, Karl

6.

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)

7.

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

Proverb, French

8.

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

Boorstin, Daniel J.

9.

All criminals turn preachers under the gallows.

Proverb

10.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

11.

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

12.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

13.

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

14.

One crime has to be concealed by another.

Seneca

15.

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

Meredith, Owen

16.

The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

17.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

18.

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.

19.

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

Peterson, Jill

20.

From a single crime know the nation.

Virgil

21.

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

Aristotle

22.

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

Horace

23.

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

Mencken, H. L.

24.

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

25.

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

Farber, Barry J.

26.

Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards.

Farquhar, George

27.

One crime is everything, two is nothing.

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

28.

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

29.

Small crimes always precedes great ones.

Racine, Jean

30.

Crime generally punishes itself.

Goldsmith, Oliver

31.

He threatens many that hath injured one.

Jonson, Ben

32.

Great thieves punish little ones.

Proverb

33.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

34.

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

Capone, Al

35.

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

Scott, Howard

36.

Locks keep out only the honest.

Proverb, Jewish

37.

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

38.

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

39.

He has committed the crime who profits by it.

Seneca

40.

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

Hazlitt, William

41.

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

42.

Set a thief to catch a thief.

Proverb, French

43.

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

44.

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

Shakespeare, William

45.

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

46.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

47.

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

48.

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

Adler, Freda

49.

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

Winner, Michael

50.

In times of trouble leniency becomes crime.

Proverb