Dont steal. The government hates competition. – Anon.
Locks keep out only the honest. – Yiddish Proverb
Crime, like disease, is not interesting; it is something to be done away with by general consent, and that is all about it. – Anon.
All criminals turn preachers under the gallows. – Proverb
Great thieves punish little ones. – Proverb
In times of trouble leniency becomes crime. – Proverb
Set a thief to catch a thief. – Proverb
Save a thief from the gallows and he will cut your throat. – Proverb
Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit. – Freda Adler
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
Every rascal is not a thief, but every thief is a rascal. – Aristotle
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. – Honore de Balzac
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
Abscond. To move in a mysterious way, commonly with the property of another. – Ambrose Bierce
The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague. – Napoleon Bonaparte
The world of crime is a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event. – Daniel J. Boorstin
We are the people our parents warned us about. – Jimmy Buffett
The thief. Once committed beyond a certain point he should not worry himself too much about not being a thief any more. Thieving is Gods message to him. Let him try and be a good thief. – Samuel Butler
My rackets are run on strictly American lines and theyre going to stay that way. – Al Capone
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
