Crime And Punishment Quotes

• No game in the world is as tidy and dramatically neat as baseball, with cause and effect, crime and punishment, motive and result, so cleanly defined.

  Paul Gallico

  Baseball, Punishment, Games

  Paul Gallico (2015). “Farewell to Sport”, p.91, Open Road Media

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• Crime and punishment grow out of one stem.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wisdom, Punishment, Intelligence

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.290, Library of America

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

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Mistake, Punishment, Suffering

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “Crime and Punishment: Dostoevsky's Collections”, p.237, 谷月社

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• No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes.

  Hannah Arendt

  Punishment, Criminals, Crime

  Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil epilogue (1963)

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• When reason fails, the devil helps!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Inspirational, Devil, Helping

  Fyodor Dostoyevsky (2006). “Crime and Punishment”, p.173, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Lying is a delightful thing, for it leads to truth.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Inspirational, Lying, Delightful

  "Crime and Punishment".

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• This woman goes into a gun shop and says, 'I want to buy a gun for my husband.' The clerk says, 'Did he tell you what kind of gun?' 'No,' she replied. 'He doesn't even know I'm going to shoot him.

  Phyllis Diller

  Husband, Gun, Clerks

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• As one reads history ... one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Humor, Punishment

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “Aphorisms”, p.50, Oscar Wilde

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• They were renewed by love; the heart of each held infinite sources of life for the heart of the other.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Life, Heart, Infinite

  Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.535, Google Publishing

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

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Humor, Punishment

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• To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Independent, Punishment, Way

  "Crime and Punishment".

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• Actions are sometimes performed in a masterly and most cunning way, while the direction of the actions is deranged and dependent on various morbid impressions - it's like a dream.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Dream, Crime Books, Punishment

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2017). “Crime and Punishment”, p.261, Sai ePublications

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• They wanted to speak, but could not; tears stood in their eyes. They were both pale and thin; but those sick pale faces were bright with the dawn of a new future, of a full resurrection into a new life. They were renewed by love; the heart of each held infinite sources of life for the heart of the other.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Eye, Heart, Sick

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “Crime and Punishment: Dostoevsky's Collections”, p.483, 谷月社

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• It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Life Changing, Intelligence

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2012). “Crime and Punishment”, p.235, Vintage

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• Where is it I've read that someone condemned to death says or thinks, an hour before his death, that if he had to live on some high rock, on such a narrow ledge that he'd only room to stand, and the ocean, everlasting darkness, everlasting solitude, everlasting tempest around him, if he had to remain standing on a square yard of space all his life, a thousand years, eternity, it were better to live so than to die at once. Only to live, to live and live! Life, whatever it may be!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Ocean, Live Life, Thinking

  Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.155, Google Publishing

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• Man has it all in his hands, and it all slips through his fingers from sheer cowardice.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Hands, Cowardice

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Punishment, Humanity, Suffering

  Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.321, Google Publishing

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  Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Inspirational, Sad, Pain

  Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.262, Google Publishing

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• Through error you come to the truth! I am a man because I err! You never reach any truth without making fourteen mistakes and very likely a hundred and fourteen.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Mistake, Men, Errors

  Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.198, Google Publishing

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• Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Used, Scoundrels

  Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.24, Google Publishing

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• Only to live, to live and live! Life, whatever it may be!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Live Life, Punishment, May

  Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.155, Google Publishing

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• Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.

  H. G. Wells

  Community, Criminals, Literature

  Margaret Sanger, Michael W. Perry, H. G. Wells (2003). “The Pivot of Civilization in Historical Perspective: The Birth Control Classic”, p.54, Inkling Books

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• As one reads history, not in the expurgated editions written for schoolboys and passmen, but in the original authorities of each time, one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime.

  Oscar Wilde

  Punishment, Community, Political

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “Aphorisms”, p.50, Oscar Wilde

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• Our system is the height of absurdity, since we treat the culprit both as a child, so as to have the right to punish him, and as an adult, in order to deny him consolation.

  Claude Levi-Strauss

  Children, Order, Punishment

  "Tristes Tropiques". Book by Claude Lévi-Strauss, translated by John and Doreen Weightman. Chapter 38: "A Little Glass of Rum," pp. 388-389, 1955.

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• People with new ideas, people with the faintest capacity for saying something new, are extremely few in number, extraordinarily so, in fact.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Punishment, Ideas, Numbers

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (1999). “Crime and Punishment”, p.364, Modern Library

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