Crime Motivation Quotes

The why of murder always fascinates me so much more than the how.

Criminals interest me, because they're driven by the same desires as we are, but they take these disastrous shortcuts and end up in a real mess.

The true criminal must be defined as a man who commits a crime though he is as decently fed and clothed as others.

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.

Most men only commit great crimes because of their scruples about petty ones.

I rob banks because that's where the money is.

Obviously crime pays, or there would be no crime.

Lately, the only thing keeping me from being a serial killer is my distaste for manual labor.

Obviously crime pays, or there'd be no crime.

What distinguishes genocide from murder, and even from acts of political murder that claim as many victims, is the intent. The crime is wanting to make a people extinct. The idea is the crime.

I mean why should somebody go steal and break the law to get all they can when there's always some law where you can be legal and get it all anyway!

I didn't love school because I wanted to disguise that I was poorer than everybody else. So when I was a teen I reached out in a wrong way. I started to be a mugger, to rob people in the streets, just to supply for my needs.

My chance, when it came, was due, literally, to the fact that I was slender.... You cannot make an opera audience believe that a man will endanger his soul, and commit robbery and murder for a very stout lady's sake.

Moviegoers love the intricacies of a crime all the more when it's for a good cause.

It may be that vice, depravity, and crime are nearly always, or even perhaps always, in their essence, attempts to eat beauty, to eat what we should only look at.

Mostly, cybercriminals are motivated to commit crime for financial gain.

Consider the problem from the point of view of evil, evil being almost always pleasure's true and major charm; considered thus, the crime must appear greater when perpetrated upon a being of your identical sort than when inflicted upon one which is not, and this once established, the delight automatically doubles.

I love criminal law. It must be the Dostoyevskian streak in me. I'm fascinated by the accumulation of forces that make people behave in ways that everybody else hates.

If you think anyone goes out and commits crimes because of some daffy film they've seen, then I question your judgment.

There's no reason ever to steal because you're upset.

The majority of crimes in the world are committed by people for the same reason—they want to be thought well of.

Liberals state that many teenagers would rather sell crack for $100 an hour than to flip hamburgers for a minimum wage. Using the same liberal logic, you might think it would make more sense for the average middle-class worker to rob banks rather than work a forty-hour week? The reason why most people, rich and poor, do not commit crimes because they know it is wrong to do so.

There's been about 75 movies about Jesse James, and I've seen about four of them. He's usually portrayed as this plucky rebel who's got no choice but to turn to crime, because the railway's hassling his mother. But he wasn't like that.

He wanted to be a lawyer, couldn't afford it, so he started dealing to go to college - good intention.

If the price of the drug people want to use is through the roof, well then they're going to have to commit crimes to get the money to get the drug. You don't see any crimes committed over a pack of cigarettes or a bottle of beer, do you?