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The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting. — Ovid

And how shall you punish those whose remorse is already greater than their misdeeds? — Kahlil Gibran

but the crime is more important than the punishment. I enliven all of me in my happy instinct for destruction. — Clarice Lispector

A strange idea was pecking at his brain like a chicken in the egg, and very, very much absorbed him. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Nothing so upholds the laws as the punishment of persons whose rank is as great as their crime. — Cardinal Richelieu

What becomes a crime deserving capital punishment when the tables are turned is a matter of small moment when the negro woman is the accusing party. — Ida B. Wells

Homosexuality in Russia is a crime and the punishment is seven years in prison, locked up with the other men. There is a three year waiting list. — Yakov Smirnoff

My argument is not that I shouldn't have been punished, but that the punishment didn't fit the crime. — Kevin Mitnick

Capital punishment would be more effective as a preventive measure if it were administered prior to the crime. — Woody Allen

Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that, unsuspected, ripens with the flower of the pleasure that concealed it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The method of electrocution would be much better than the old method of hanging. — Meldrim Thomson Jr.

It is not a question of crime and punishment
it is problem and solution. — Rohinton Mistry

I read 'Crime and Punishment' years ago and don't recall the details of it, but I do retain a strong sense of the creeping paranoia and panic. — Arthur Smith

Punishment creates crime. — Silvia Hartmann

It is the certainty of being punished and not the horrifying spectacle of public punishment that must discourage crime — Michel Foucault

Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men. — George Bernard Shaw

The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

He read himself silly! — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Man is a creature who gets used to everything, and that, I think, is the best definition of him. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I'm sure if the punishment fits the crime, or is more severe, you're going to start stamping out a lot of things that are going on in football. — Alan Curbishley

People also felt that a great crime had been committed, yet there was not going to be a great punishment. — Bethany McLean

Crime? What crime? ... My killing a loathsome, harmful louse, a filthy old moneylender woman ... and you call that a crime? — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

he worked with great intensity without sparing himself, & he was respected for this, but no one liked him" --crime & punishment — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Every transgression and disobedience receives a just recompense of reward, except with those who truly love themselves. — Auliq Ice

A community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurence of crime. — Oscar Wilde

He thought that in the history of the world it might even be that there was more punishment than crime but he took small comfort from it. — Cormac McCarthy

It's a free country." Inmates once bought this. That's why they're inmates. — Brian Spellman

I don't consider myself above the law, I consider myself above the principles.

~ Aarush Kashyap — Kirtida Gautam

My object all sublime I shall achieve in time- To let the punishment fit the crime- The punishment fit the crime. — W.S. Gilbert

The murder that is depicted as a horrible crime is repeated in cold blood, remorselessly. — Cesare Beccaria

The criminal left belongs not in a dormitory, but in a penitentiary. — Spiro T. Agnew

Life [had] replaced logic. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime. — Vittorio Alfieri

I cannot imagine any crime worse than taking a life, can you? -It'd depend whose life. — Brendan Behan

The serial murderer often seeks the very form of capital punishment that is being held over his head as a deterrent. — Joel Norris

For a punishment to be just it should consist of only such gradations of intensity as suffice to deter men from committing crimes. — Cesare Beccaria

The work of eradicating crimes is not by making punishment familiar, but formidable. — Oliver Goldsmith

The crime should be punished no matter whether poverty or wealth caused it to occur, because the crime is wrong. — Ernest Van Den Haag

Even Mademoiselle Neubahr can't make me believe in hell. It doesn't seem a very - witty - solution of the crime-and-punishment situation, does it? — Frances Noyes Hart

The man that does not fear punishment, little regards crime. — Norm MacDonald

The message has to be sent that if you commit a crime there has to be punishment. — Benigno Aquino III

Justice isn't about fixing the past; it's about healing the past's future. — Jackson Burnett

Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal. — Elizabeth Fry

Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime. — John Ruskin

To call it a crime against Mankind is to miss at least half its significance, it is also the punishment of a crime. — Frederic Manning

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty. — Henry Ford

I deplore the horrible crime of child-murder ... We want prevention, not merely punishment. We must reach the root of the evil, and destroy it. — Susan B. Anthony

I wanted to show that crime doesn't pay. If you are saved and accept the Lord, you cannot use that as an excuse to avoid punishment. — Robert Duvall

Build the prisons and they will commit the crimes. — Brian Spellman

Fear follows crime and is its punishment. — Voltaire

Sometimes love can be both the punishment and the crime. — Steve Maraboli

Some heinous crimes justify the ultimate punishment. — Barack Obama

Let the punishment fit the crime. — W.S. Gilbert

My father gave me Dostoevsky's 'Crime and Punishment' when I was in junior high; my junior high, angst-filled soul responded to that. — Janet Fitch

Your fate is to be yourself, both punishment and crime. — Jane Hirshfield

The guilty is he who meditates a crime; the punishment is his who lays the plot. — Vittorio Alfieri

Isn't all mankind ultimately executed for a crime it never committed? — Woody Allen

( ... )man holds the remedy in his own hands, and lets everything go its own way, simply through cowardice- that is an axiom. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

No game in the world is as tidy and dramatically neat as baseball, with cause and effect, crime and punishment, motive and result, so cleanly defined. — Paul Gallico

One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem on others. — Juvenal

Any punishment is an insult to the crime — Nathan Filer

If the Old Testament were a reliable guide in the matter of capital punishment, half the people in the United States would have to be killed tomorrow. — Steve Allen