Crime Quote by Bethany McLean

“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

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

— George Gordon Byron

“Punishment creates crime.”

— Silvia Hartmann

“I think people feel a kind of need for punishment when they can no longer accept their own actions.”

— Jo Nesbø

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

— Clarice Lispector

“Being punished for something you did not do. Or being an innocent victim. It’s just something that I never want to experience.”

— Stephen Chbosky

“We are often criminals in the eyes of the earth, not only for having committed crimes, but because we know that crimes have been…

— Alexandre Dumas

“Accepting punishment – that would be revolutionary.”

— David Burr Gerrard

“A mistake from a good person always gets treated as crime.”

— Pratik Akkawar

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

— Deb Caletti

“There are crimes that are truly uncomely. With crimes, whatever they may be, the more blood, the more horror there is, the more imposing…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“We had made the error of staying small – and there is no more unforgivable crime in America.”

— Pat Conroy