Crime and Criminals Quotes
46 quotations about Crime and Criminals
Every rascal is not a thief, but every thief is a rascal.
Abscond. To move in a mysterious way, commonly with the property of another.
The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.
The world of crime is a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event.
My rackets are run on strictly American lines and they're going to stay that way.
One crime is everything, two is nothing.
The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.
Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society.
Successful crimes alone are justified.
Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass.
Crime expands according to our willingness to put up with it.
Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards.
Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.
There is no crime of which I do not deem myself capable.
Crime is naught but misdirected energy.
Crime generally punishes itself.
We are often deterred from crime by the disgrace of others.
Many a man is saved from being a thief by finding everything locked up.
After all, crime is only a left-handed form of human endeavor.
He threatens many that hath injured one.
Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear.
If poverty is the mother of crime, lack of good sense is the father.
There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.
Not failure, but low aim, is crime.
The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
Authors on Crime and Criminals
Aristotle
Ambrose Bierce
Napoleon Bonaparte
Daniel J. Boorstin
Al Capone
Madame Dorothe Deluzy
Democritus
E. L. Doctorow
John Dryden
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Barry J. Farber
George Farquhar
French Proverb
Jean Genet
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Emma Goldman
Oliver Goldsmith
Horace
Edgar Watson Howe
John Huston