Crime Quote by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“...if you wish to tell me what crime I have committed, explain to me in what a crime consists. For as my conscience does…

— from the Man in the Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas

“The law's a necessary evil--we canna be doing without it--but do ye not think it a poor substitute for conscience?”

— Diana Gabaldon

“I’m never ashamed of my words. My words are me and how I feel. If that’s a crime, then they should not have given…

— Scottie Waves

“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

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

— Bethany McLean

“No. Your crime has no conscience. You haven't been driven to do it by some oppressive social force. How I hate to be reasonable.…

— Don DeLillo

“Your conscience troubles you unnecessarily, and you see a deliberate intention in every simple act.”

— Baroness Emma Orczy

“If he has a conscience he will suffer for his mistake. That will be punishment as well as the prison.”

— Anonymous

“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

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

— Clarice Lispector