Illicit Gain Quotes

Money-crimes have an abstract quality. History is laden with the victims of gold, but their remains are odorless.

No one earns $100 million. You steal $100 million.

My little scam in April '85 went like this: Give me $50,000; here's some names of some people we've recruited.

The more illegal a profit, the more tenaciously a man clings to it.

What was once a comparatively minor threat - people hacking for fun or for bragging rights - has turned into full-blown economic espionage and extremely lucrative cyber crime.

There is simply too much corruption, too much money available for the taking.

Ecclesiastical honors are either purchased for a set price, or seized by the hand of violence, or secured by nefarious actions, or acquired by sordid sycophancy. Occasionally even, they are the hire paid for panderism and similar services. In short, more shameless proceedings are exhibited here than ever occur in the acquisition of secular possessions.

Once the state becomes the ultimate beneficiary of crime proceeds, how different is it, really, from being simply the most powerful gang in a battlefield of gangs?

False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing

My buddies wanted to be firemen, farmers or policemen, something like that. Not me, I just wanted to steal people's money!

I wouldn't be in a legitimate business for all the money in the world.

Web of corruption Criminals of great wealth Apologists for corrupt wealth Powerful wrongdoers Hypocritical baseness Peculiarly flagrant iniquity Flagrant dishonesty Rottenness Greed, trickery and cunning Representatives of predatory wealth Wealth accumulated by iniquity Corrupt men of wealth Law-defying wealth Mammon of unrighteousness Very wealthy criminals Corruption of organized politics Evil eminence of infamy The death knell of the Republic Wealthy malefactors

Organized crime is the dirty side of the sharp dollar.

… the use of office for direct or indirect personal monetary gain

Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men.

Not only I lost what I had in the ship, but from the captain and the company generally what was good or worth the taking was carried away; all which was done unknown to the emperor.

Petty thievery is a more profitable job than pool hustling, which it resembles, requires far less talent and training, and is equally devoid of promise.

That was the division in the hacking world: There were people who were exploring it and the people who were trying to make money from it. And, generally, you stayed away from anyone who was trying to make money from it.

Where would heist movies be without the Big Score - that payoff so irresistible it can lure the most jaded desperado out of hiding?

Shall I turn up the light for you? No, give me deeper darkness. Money is not made in the light.

The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, forgotten because it was properly done.

What it comes down to is this: the grocer, the butcher, the baker, the merchant, the landlord, the druggist, the liquor dealer, the policeman, the doctor, the city father and the politician -- these are the people who make money out of prostitution, these are the real reapers of the wages of sin.