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Don't steal. The government hates competition.
-Anon.
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Locks keep out only the honest.
-Yiddish Proverb
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Crime, like disease, is not interesting; it is something to be done away with by general consent, and that is all about it.
-Anon.
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All criminals turn preachers under the gallows.
-Proverb
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Great thieves punish little ones.
-Proverb
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In times of trouble leniency becomes crime.
-Proverb
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Set a thief to catch a thief.
-Proverb
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Save a thief from the gallows and he will cut your throat.
-Proverb
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Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit.
-Freda Adler
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It is no secret that organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year. This is quite a profitable sum, especially when one considers that the Mafia spends very little for office supplies.
-Woody Allen
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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
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Every rascal is not a thief, but every thief is a rascal.
-Aristotle
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The secret of a great success for which you are at a loss to account is a crime that has never been found out, because it was properly executed.
paraphrased as: Behind every great fortune there is a crime
-Honore de Balzac
Father Goriot
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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
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Abscond. To move in a mysterious way, commonly with the property of another.
-Ambrose Bierce
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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.
-William Blake
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The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
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The world of crime is a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event.
-Daniel J. Boorstin
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We are the people our parents warned us about.
-Jimmy Buffett
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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.
-Samuel Butler
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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.
-Albert Camus
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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.
-Elias Canetti
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My rackets are run on strictly American lines and they're going to stay that way.
-Al Capone
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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.
-Agatha Christie
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As for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow.
-Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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Books about Crime
