Crime Punishment Quotes

14 quotes from 12 authors

When you consider why love can feel like a crime, thoughts show how society ties wrongdoing to consequence. The verses range from a wistful lament about punished affection to a stern reminder that any illegal act demands a price. If you’re curious about legal theory, check the Justice or Morality pages for more collections.

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Crime and punishment grow out of one stem.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The message has to be sent that if you commit a crime there has to be punishment.

Benigno Aquino III

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

Vittorio Alfieri

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Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

Voltaire

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The chief problem in any community cursed with crime is not the punishment of the criminals, but the preventing of the young…

W. E. B. Du Bois

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Our criminal justice system is failing all of us. It is not keeping us safe. It is contributing to a vicious cycle…

Chesa Boudin

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Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that, unsuspected, ripens with the flower of the pleasure that…

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that unsuspected ripens within the flower of the pleasure which…

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

W. S. Gilbert

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Who said love is not a crime,love is not a crime,then why I always get punishment for loving someone…..

Nishant Grover

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One of the things that Dostoevsky talks about is that no character is too high to fall and no character is too…

Jeffrey Bell

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The great gift of 'Incarceration Nations' is that, by introducing a wide range of approaches to crime, punishment, and questions of justice…

Michelle Alexander

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“Crime and punishment can be summed up in two classifications: there are bad people and there are people who get into bad…

Johnnie Dent Jr

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Governments have tried to stop crime through punishment throughout the ages, but crime continued in the past punishment remains. Crime can only…

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

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