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

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

Farber, Barry J.

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

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

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

Shakespeare, William

He threatens many that hath injured one.

Jonson, Ben

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

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

He has committed the crime who profits by it.

Seneca

Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.

Genet, Jean

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

Doctorow, E. L.

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Small crimes always precedes great ones.

Racine, Jean

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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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Locks keep out only the honest.

Proverb, Jewish

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The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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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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Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards.

Farquhar, George

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

Kraus, Karl

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Successful crimes alone are justified.

Dryden, John

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

Plato

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

Peterson, Jill

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

Huston, John

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

Aristotle

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One crime is everything, two is nothing.

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

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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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Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

Seneca

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

Horace

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

Will, George F.

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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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In times of trouble leniency becomes crime.

Proverb

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

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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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 has to be concealed by another.

Seneca

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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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From a single crime know the nation.

Virgil

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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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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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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