Crime and Punishment Quotes and Sayings

Poverty is like punishment for a crime you didn’t commit - Eli Khamarov.

To go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s - Fyodor Dostoevsky.

If he has a conscience he will suffer for his mistake. That will be his punishment - as well as the prison - Fyodor Dostoevsky.

The idea that the sole aim of punishment is to prevent crime is obviously grounded upon the theory that crime can be prevented, which is almost as dubious as the notion that poverty can be prevented - Henry Louis Mencken.

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

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.

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

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