Crime Quote by Arundhati Roy

Some things come with their own punishments. Like bedrooms with built-in cupboards. They would all learn more about punishments soon. That they came in…

— Arundhati Roy

“For great and horrible punishments be appointed for thieves, wheras much rather provision should have been made that there were some means they might…

— Thomas Moore

“Must crimes be punish'd but by other crimes, and greater criminals?”

— George Gordon Byron

“Aren't we all in varying degrees, captives in our own personal prisons, bound by our limiting habits?”

— Ruthy Alon

“Punishment creates crime.”

— Silvia Hartmann

“Don't you believe that the punishment should fit the crime? Isn't that what justice is? Letely, though, I wonder if we've gotten more into…

— Whoopi Goldberg

“How can people be punished when they are innocent?”

— Paul Scott

“It’s funny the ways we try to punish ourselves when we feel we’ve committed some crime.”

— Deb Caletti

“but that the production of lawlessness was an appropriate way to find murderers who could be recruited for organized actions.”

— Timothy Snyder

“Nearly all a poor bastard's desires are punishable by jail.”

— Louis-Ferdinand Céline

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

— Bethany McLean

“Such people are their own punishment.”

— Charles Palliser