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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
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
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
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
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
![Crime And Punishment Quotes By Fyodor Dostoyevsky: Life [had] replaced logic.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/crime-and-punishment-quotes-by-fyodor-dostoyevsky-1607763.jpg "Crime And Punishment Quotes By Fyodor Dostoyevsky: Life [had] replaced logic.")
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
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
Your fate is to be yourself, both punishment and crime.
— Jane Hirshfield
( ... )man holds the remedy in his own hands, and lets everything go its own way, simply through cowardice- that is an axiom.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Any punishment is an insult to the crime
— Nathan Filer
