Criminal Mentality Quotes

Where aspirations outstrip opportunities, law-abiding society becomes the victim. Attitudes of contempt toward the law are forged in this crucible and form the inner core of the beliefs of organized adult crime.

If the cops didn't see it, I didn't do it!

Most people lived their lives like criminals: act first, worry about the consequences later.

This idea that you're a successful tough guy if you evade taxes and deceive the state has got to change.

The problem with movies and books is they make evil look glamorous, exciting, when it's no such thing. It's boring and it's depressing and it's stupid. Criminals are all after cheap thrills and easy money, and when they get them, all they want is more of the same, over and over. They're shallow, empty, boring people who couldn't give you five minutes of interesting conversation if you had the piss-poor luck to be at a party full of them. Maybe some can be monkey-clever, some of the time, but they aren't hardly ever smart.

These are not ordinary human beings. They are criminals. As a matter of fact, they are criminals, both by nature and by training. By nature, because they are not decent. They are criminals.

You have to steal a lot. You have to have a criminal mentality to be a film director.

I knew so many gangsters, and I call on that experience with them for characters.

People are still emulating the old fashioned criminal.

In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.