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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.

    Elude Us   Scary   Secret  
    Georges Bataille (1991). “The Trial of Gilles de Rais”, Amok Books
  • No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes.

    Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil epilogue (1963)
  • From a single crime know the nation.

    Virgil (1930). “Virgil”
  • Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit.

    "Sisters in Crime: The Rise of the New Female Criminal". Book by Freda Adler, 1975.
  • Many a man is saved from being a thief by finding everything locked up.

    Funny   Humor   Men  
  • 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.

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

    Attitude   Soul   Mind  
    Agatha Christie (1956). “Surprise Endings by Hercule Poirot: Including The A. B. C. Murders, Murder in Three Acts, and Cards on the Table”
  • 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 (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon
  • The world of crime is a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event.

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

  • A community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurence of crime.

    Oscar Wilde (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)”, p.1649, Delphi Classics
  • He that is robbed, not wanting what is stolen, him not know t, and he's not robbed at all.

    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
  • To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace

  • Crime is naught but misdirected energy.

    Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.33, 谷月社
  • The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.

    Funny   Humor   Criminals  
    H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.271, Knopf
  • The study of crime begins with the knowledge of oneself.

    Study   Crime   Mankind  
    Henry Miller (1970). “The Air-Conditioned Nightmare”, p.87, New Directions Publishing
  • Every rascal is not a thief, but every thief is a rascal.

    Funny   Humor   Thieves  
  • Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.

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

    Funny   Lying   Humor  
    George Bernard Shaw (2012). “Major Barbara”, p.26, Courier Corporation
  • The mood and temper of the public in regard to the treatment of crime and criminals is one of the most unfailing tests of the civilisation of any country.

  • Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.

    Margaret Sanger, Michael W. Perry, H. G. Wells (2003). “The Pivot of Civilization in Historical Perspective: The Birth Control Classic”, p.54, Inkling Books
  • So long, and thanks for all the fish.

    Douglas Adams (2009). “So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish”, Pan Macmillan
  • Crime butchers innocence to secure a throne, and innocence struggles with all its might against the attempts of crime.

    War   Struggle   Thrones  
  • Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • As one reads history ... one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted.

    Oscar Wilde (2016). “Aphorisms”, p.50, Oscar Wilde
  • Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on.

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

    Henry Miller (1970). “The Air-Conditioned Nightmare”, p.87, New Directions Publishing
  • 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, Rhoda Bubendey Métraux (1980). “Aspects of the Present”, William Morrow
  • Eliminating the death penalty...will not hinder the prosecutorial capacity to seek, or the court's ability to impose, 'life without parole' sentences for serious, heinous crimes and criminals.

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

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