Crime And Criminals Quotes

• 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.

  Hannah Arendt

  Punishment, Criminals, Firsts

  Hannah Arendt (2006). “Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil”, p.238, Penguin

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• The most absurd apology for authority and law is that they serve to diminish crime. Aside from the fact that the State is itself the greatest criminal, breaking every written and natural law, stealing in the form of taxes, killing in the form of war and capital punishment, it has come to an absolute standstill in coping with crime. It has failed utterly to destroy or even minimize the horrible scourge of its own creation.

  Emma Goldman

  War, Apology, Law

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.33, 谷月社

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• Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves.

  Robert Kennedy

  Criminals, Enforcement, Kind

  Robert F. Kennedy (1964). “The Pursuit of Justice”, New York : Harper & Row

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• The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Crime, Plague, Criminality

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

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Events, World, Lasts

  Daniel J. Boorstin (2012). “The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America”, p.254, Vintage

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

  William Shakespeare

  Crime, Stolen, Knows

  William Shakespeare (1835). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: With a Life of the Poet, and Notes, Original and Selected; Together with a Copious Glossary”, p.622

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

  Aristotle

  Funny, Humor, Thieves

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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.

  Georges Bataille

  Elude Us, Scary, Secret

  Georges Bataille (1991). “The Trial of Gilles de Rais”, Amok Books

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• Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

  Seneca the Younger

  Philosophical, Succeed, Virtue

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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, a mystery resist to generalization, a mystery of the individual soul.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Change, Taken, Character

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

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• Abscond - to move in a mysterious way, commonly with the property of another.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Funny, Moving, Humor

  Ambrose Bierce (2011). “Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs”, p.565, Library of America

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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.

  Marquis de Sade

  Passion, Competition, Doubt

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• Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Inspirational, Military, War

  Ernest Hemingway, Patrick Hemingway (2012). “Hemingway on War”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• Crime butchers innocence to secure a throne, and innocence struggles with all its might against the attempts of crime.

  Maximilien Robespierre

  War, Struggle, Thrones

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• We enact many laws that manufacture criminals, and then a few that punish them.

  Allen Tucker

  Funny, Humor, Government

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• No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes.

  Hannah Arendt

  Punishment, Criminals, Crime

  Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil epilogue (1963)

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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.

  H. G. Wells

  Community, Criminals, Literature

  Margaret Sanger, Michael W. Perry, H. G. Wells (2003). “The Pivot of Civilization in Historical Perspective: The Birth Control Classic”, p.54, Inkling Books

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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Glasses, Criminals, Earth

  Essays "Compensation" (1841)

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• Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.

  Henry Thomas Buckle

  Political, Preparation, Society

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• We make our own criminals, and their crimes are congruent with the national culture we all share. It has been said that a people get the kind of political leadership they deserve. I think they also get the kinds of crime and criminals they themselves bring into being.

  Margaret Mead

  Thinking, People, Political

  Margaret Mead, Rhoda Bubendey Métraux (1980). “Aspects of the Present”, William Morrow

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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.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Humor, Law

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.230, Courier Corporation

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• Crime is naught but misdirected energy.

  Emma Goldman

  Energy, Criminals, Crime

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.33, 谷月社

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• We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business?

  Will Rogers

  Funny, Humor, Able

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

  George Bernard Shaw

  Funny, Lying, Humor

  George Bernard Shaw (2012). “Major Barbara”, p.26, Courier Corporation

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• The study of crime begins with the knowledge of oneself.

  Henry Miller

  Study, Crime, Mankind

  Henry Miller (1970). “The Air-Conditioned Nightmare”, p.87, New Directions Publishing

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