Criminal Tendencies Quotes

There is no crime of which I do not deem myself capable.

Crime is to the passions what nervous fluid is to life: it sustains them, it supplies their strength.

Lots of people committed crimes during the year who would not have done so if they had been fishing. The increase of crime is among those deprived of the regenerations that impregnate the mind and character of the fisherman.

I turn to a life of crime cause I came from a broken family.

I have been addicted to crime since I was born. I was making up crime stories when I was a 4- or 5-year-old kid.

Small crimes always precede great crimes. Whoever has been able to transgress the limits set by law may afterwards violate the most sacred rights; crime, like virtue, has its degrees, and never have we seen timid innocence pass suddenly to extreme licentiousness.

I'm as wicked as Hitler's first born, cause of me, lot of old ladies purses gone.

Temptation said that we all dream of committing crimes, but that only the unbalanced make that macabre idea a reality.

Small crimes always precede great ones. Never have we seen timid innocence pass suddenly to extreme licentiousness.

If you're a very unfulfilled person you might have a tendency to turn to crime.

I always felt, you don’t have a good time doin crime, you may as well find a job.

Purposelessness is the fruitful mother of crime.

Crimes spring from fixed ideas.

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.

I've never been accused of a felony. I never spent time behind bars except for a few overnight jail times back in the Sixties. [But] I think there's a little bit of a criminal in all of us. Everybody's done something they don't want anybody to know about.

One who is by nature daring and is suffering from poverty will not long be law-abiding. Indeed, any men, save those that are truly good, if their sufferings are very great, will be likely to rebel.

Crimes lead into one another. They who are capable of being forgers, are capable of being incendiaries.

There's not a lot of arc in an actual psychopath.

I should have been, I don't know, a con-man, a robber or a prostitute. But it was vanity that made me choose painting, vanity and chance.

Nine out of ten delinquents are frustrated actors.

There is no question that abuse, drugs and exposure to violence at home can exacerbate someone's criminal tendencies enormously. But there are many, many criminals who don't come from that background.

When it comes to recruiting people for the secret world, what the recruiters are looking for is pretty much what I had. I was unanchored, looking for an institution to look after me. I had a bit of larceny. I understood larceny. I understood the natural criminality in people - because it was - it was all around me. And I have no doubt there was a chunk of it inside me too. Once I found that identity, it took root in me. It exactly - it gelled with the world that I'd known in the past.