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

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

Scott, Howard

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

Doctorow, E. L.

Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards.

Farquhar, George

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

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

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.

One crime is everything, two is nothing.

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

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

Rabelais, Francois

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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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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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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Great thieves punish little ones.

Proverb

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Successful crimes alone are justified.

Dryden, John

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

Huston, John

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

Aristotle

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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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 expands according to our willingness to put up with it.

Farber, Barry J.

28.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Crime seems to change character when it crosses a bridge or a tunnel. In the city, crime is taken as emblematic of class and race. In the suburbs, though, it's intimate and psychological -- resistant to generalization, a mystery of the individual soul.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

Horace

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Locks keep out only the honest.

Proverb, Jewish

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

Proverb, French

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He threatens many that hath injured one.

Jonson, Ben

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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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Small crimes always precedes great ones.

Racine, Jean

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

Plato

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

Capone, Al

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

Kraus, Karl

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

Will, George F.

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From a single crime know the nation.

Virgil

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Genet, Jean

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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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He has committed the crime who profits by it.

Seneca

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

Winner, Michael