Quote: Crime is naught but misdirected energy. Author: Emma Goldman 1869-1940, American Anarchist
Quote: Crime generally punishes itself. Author: Oliver Goldsmith 1728-1774, Anglo-Irish Author, Poet, Playwright
Quote: There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion. Author: William Hazlitt 1778-1830, British Essayist
Quote: We are often deterred from crime by the disgrace of others. Author: Horace BC 65-8, Italian Poet
Quote: Many a man is saved from being a thief by finding everything locked up. Author: Edgar Watson Howe 1853-1937, American Journalist, Author
Quote: After all, crime is only a left-handed form of human endeavor. Author: John Huston 1906-1987, American Film Director
Quote: Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit. Author: Freda Adler 1870-1937, Pioneer Psychiatrist, Born in Vienna
Quote: 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. Author: Woody Allen 1935-, American Director, Screenwriter, Actor, Comedian
Quote: 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. Author: Hannah Arendt 1906-1975, German-born American Political Philosopher
Quote: Every rascal is not a thief, but every thief is a rascal. Author: Aristotle BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher
Quote: 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. Author: Georges Bataille 1897-1962, French Novelist, Critic
Quote: Abscond. To ''move'' in a mysterious way, commonly with the property of another. Author: Ambrose Bierce 1842-1914, American Author, Editor, Journalist, ''The Devil's Dictionary''
Quote: 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. Author: William Blake 1757-1827, British Poet, Painter
Quote: The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague. Author: Napoleon Bonaparte 1769-1821, French General, Emperor
Quote: The world of crime is a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event. Author: Daniel J. Boorstin 1914-, American Historian
Quote: The thief. Once committed beyond a certain point he should not worry himself too much about not being a thief any more. Thieving is God's message to him. Let him try and be a good thief. Author: Samuel Butler 1612-1680, British Poet, Satirist
Quote: 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. Author: Albert Camus 1913-1960, French Existential Writer
Quote: 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. Author: Elias Canetti 1905-, Austrian Novelist, Philosopher
Quote: My rackets are run on strictly American lines and they're going to stay that way. Author: Al Capone 1899-1947, American Gangster
Quote: 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. Author: Agatha Christie 1891-1976, British Mystery Writer
Quote: Slums may well be breeding-grounds of crime, but middle-class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium. Author: Cyril Connolly 1903-1974, British Critic
Quote: One crime is everything, two is nothing. Author: Madame DorothT Deluzy 1747-1830, French Actress
Quote: The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged. Author: Democritus c.460-370 BC, Greek Philosopher
Quote: Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society. Author: E. L. Doctorow 1931-, American Novelist
Quote: Successful crimes alone are justified. Author: John Dryden 1631-1700, British Poet, Dramatist, Critic
Quote: 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. Author: Emile Durkheim 1858-1917, French Sociologist
Quote: 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. Author: Barbara Ehrenreich 1941-, American Author, Columnist
Quote: We cannot be sure that we ought not to regard the most criminal country as that which in some aspects possesses the highest civilization. Author: Havelock Ellis 1859-1939, British Psychologist
Quote: Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass. Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist
Quote: Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that, unsuspected, ripens with the flower of the pleasure that concealed it. Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist
Quote: 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. Author: Giovanni Falcone
Quote: Crime expands according to our willingness to put up with it. Author: Barry J. Farber American Trainer, Speaker, Author
Quote: Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards. Author: George Farquhar c.1677-1707, Irish Playwright
Quote: 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. Author: Michel Foucault 1926-1984, French Essayist, Philosopher
Quote: 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. Author: John Kenneth Galbraith 1908-, American Economist
Quote: Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man. Author: Jean Genet 1910-1986, French Playwright, Novelist
Quote: 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. Author: Jean Genet 1910-1986, French Playwright, Novelist
Quote: 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. Author: Henry George 1839-1897, American Social Reformer, Economist
Quote: He threatens many that hath injured one. Author: Ben Jonson 1573-1637, British Dramatist, Poet
Quote: Many commit the same crime with a different destiny; one bears a cross as the price of his villainy, another wears a crown. Author: (Decimus Junius Juvenalis) Juvenal c.55-c.130, Roman Satirical Poet
Quote: 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. Author: John F. Kennedy 1917-1963, Thirty-fifth President of the USA
Quote: Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear. Author: Karl Kraus 1874-1936, Austrian Satirist
Quote: If poverty is the mother of crime, lack of good sense is the father. Author: Jean De La Bruyere 1645-1696, French Writer
Quote: There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess. Author: Francois De La Rochefoucauld 1613-1680, French Classical Writer
Quote: 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. Author: David Letterman 1947-, American TV Personality
Quote: 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. Author: Abraham Lincoln 1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA
Quote: Not failure, but low aim, is crime. Author: James Russell Lowell 1819-1891, American Poet, Critic, Editor
Quote: The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor. Author: H. L. Mencken 1880-1956, American Editor, Author, Critic, Humorist
Quote: We may live without friends; we may live without books. But civilized men cannot live without cooks. Author: Owen Meredith 1831-1891, British Politician, Poet
Quote: 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. Author: Henry Miller 1891-1980, American Author
Quote: It is because they took the easy way out that rivers, and people, go crooked. Author: Jill Peterson
Quote: He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it. Author: Plato BC 427?-347?, Greek Philosopher
Quote: A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else. Author: O. Henry Porter 1862-1910, American short-story Writer
Quote: All criminals turn preachers under the gallows. Author: Proverb
Quote: Great thieves punish little ones. Author: Proverb
Quote: In times of trouble leniency becomes crime. Author: Proverb
Quote: Save a thief from the gallows and he will cut your throat. Author: French Proverb Sayings of French Origin
Quote: Set a thief to catch a thief. Author: French Proverb Sayings of French Origin
Quote: Locks keep out only the honest. Author: Jewish Proverb Sayings of Jewish Origin
Quote: He 63 ways of getting money, the most common, most honorable ones being staling, thieving, and robbing. Author: Frantois Rabelais 1495-1553, French Satirist, Physician, and Humanist
Quote: Small crimes always precedes great ones. Author: Jean Racine 1639-1699, French Dramatist
Quote: 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. Author: Marquis De Sade 1740-1814, French Author
Quote: 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. Author: Marquis De Sade 1740-1814, French Author
Quote: A person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation. Author: Howard Scott
Quote: Crime when it succeeds is called virtue. Author: Seneca 4 B.C. – 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher
Quote: He has committed the crime who profits by it. Author: Seneca 4 B.C. – 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher
Quote: One crime has to be concealed by another. Author: Seneca 4 B.C. – 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher
Quote: He that is robbed, not wanting what is stolen, him not know t, and he's not robbed at all. Author: William Shakespeare 1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor
Quote: The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier. Author: George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist
Quote: 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. Author: Mark Twain 1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer
Quote: From a single crime know the nation. Author: Virgil c. 70 - 19 BC, Roman Poet
Quote: Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression. Author: Evelyn Waugh 1903-1966, British Novelist
Quote: Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community. Author: H.G. Wells 1866-1946, British-born American Author
Quote: Today more Americans are imprisoned for drug offenses than for property crimes Author: George F. Will 1941-, American Political Columnist
Quote: 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. Author: Roger Williams 1603-1683, American Founder of Rhode Island
Quote: The truth of the matter is that muggers are very interesting people. Author: Michael Winner