Fear follows crime, and is its punishment
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Fear follows crime and is its punishment.
VOLTAIRE Fear follows crime, and is its punishment.
VOLTAIRE Punishment follows close on the heels of crime.
UNKNOWN Punishment follows close on crime.
[Lat., Culpam poena premit comes.]
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) Punishment closely follows guilt as its companion.
HORACE We want to make sure he never sees the light of day.
GARY GAMBARDELLA Many of the Nazis were convicted after the war, but they were not convicted for being 'unreasonable'...
JOSTEIN GAARDER Those who notice, always notify, what they are noticing but we have to check that notification.
ARPIT PUROHIT If one person get shot and killed is called a crime, but if thousands of people get shot and killed ...
"BETA" METANI' MARASHI And then it happened. It was a detail, no more than that. A detail to which you pay no attention at ...
HERMAN KOCH Let someone who was not from among the convicts try reproaching a prisoner for his crime and abusing...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY If he believed in the full complement of evil in himself, he had to believe also in a natural compul...
PATRICIA HIGHSMITH He has suffered a great deal and is still suffering from the idea that he could make a theory, but w...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Crime? What crime? ... My killing a loathsome, harmful louse, a filthy old moneylender woman ... and...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY The best crime stories are always about the crime and its consequences - you know, 'Crime And Pu...
PAUL GREENGRASS Punishment creates crime.
SILVIA HARTMANN She needs to go to jail, for her own punishment and to deter others.
GARY GAMBARDELLA He didn't commit these crimes for any of the usual reasons we hear, like needing money to support a ...
GARY GAMBARDELLA They traded their houses for the big house.
GARY GAMBARDELLA "That's one lock he won't be able to pick for ten years." (referring to a lock-picking house burglar...
GARY GAMBARDELLA Instead of living on a 130 acre farm making millions, he'll be living in an 8 by 8 cell making licen...
GARY GAMBARDELLA The candle-end had long been burning out in the bent candlestick, casting a dim light in this destit...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY It is the crime that causes the shame, and not the punishment.
VIKRANT PARSAI Crime and punishment grow out of one stem.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poverty is like punishment for a crime you didn't commit.
ELI KHAMAROV Society is better off with handcuffs around Hopkins’ wrists rather than a stolen ring around his g...
GARY GAMBARDELLA Let the punishment fit the crime
PROVERB The only punishment that does justice for the victims, the only punishment that fits the crime, is d...
PATRICK FITZGERALD Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.
ELIZABETH FRY Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the
criminal.
EURIPIDES As aparições são, por assim dizer, pedaços ou fragmentos de outros mundos, o seu princípio. É ...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY This is a longtime employee. The punishment should fit the crime.
MARTIN DRUYAN Remorse is the punishment of crime; repentance, its expiation. The former appertains to a tormented ...
JOSEPH JOUBERT The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY A curse burns bright on crime.
AESCHYLUS We both agree this type of crime justifies this punishment.
LOUVON HARRIS (…)man holds the remedy in his own hands, and lets everything go its own way, simply through cowar...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY The punishment did not fit the crime.
BENNY PARSONS No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On ...
HANNAH ARENDT Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that, unsuspected, ripens with the ...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON I don't find the punishment fit the crime,
DARCY TUCKER It was a great sentence. He will die in prison.
GARY GAMBARDELLA His parole officer hasn't been born yet.
GARY GAMBARDELLA Build the prisons and they will commit the crimes.
BRIAN SPELLMAN The Government cannot be concerned any longer with outmoded penelogical theories. Cram criminals tog...
ANTHONY BURGESS Nothing will deter crime but the certainty of punishment.
GRACE POE I don't consider myself above the law, I consider myself above the principles.
~ Aarush ...
KIRTIDA GAUTAM I read about a man condemned to death saying or thinking, an hour before his death, that if he had t...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY The guilty is he who meditates a crime; the punishment is his who lays the plot.
CONTE VITTORIO ALFIERI Wickedness is its own punishment.
FRANCIS QUARLES Virtue is its own punishment.
ANEURIN BEVAN Virtue is its own punishment
ANEURIN BEVAN Sometimes the crime follows the punishment, which only serves to prove the foresight of the Great Go...
TERRY PRATCHETT The idea that the sole aim of punishment is to prevent crime is obviously grounded upon the theory t...
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN The defendant has been proven guilty of participating in a crime of corruption. The punishment is fi...
CICUT SUTIARSO I believe in punishment. Someone commits a crime, they should be punished. But I also believe in jus...
DELNORA DUPREY There is no right to punish. There is only the power to punish,' she wrote. 'A man is punished for h...
BENJAMIN MOSER Extreme civilization robs crime of its frightful poetry, and prevents the writer from restoring it. ...
JULES BARBEY D'AUREVILLY All attempts at law, all religion, all ethical norms might be nothing more than attempts by the weak...
GEORGE ZEBROWSKI Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime.
VITTORIO ALFIERI The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.
[Lat., Poena potest demi, culpa perennis...
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO) Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Powe...
MAHATMA GANDHI Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Powe...
MAHATMA GANDHI Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Powe...
MOHANDAS GANDHI I don't find the punishment fit the crime in Moe Mantha's case,
DARCY TUCKER Death is not only an unusually severe punishment, unusual in its pain, in its finality and in its en...
WILLIAM J. BRENNAN, JR. Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the pre...
JOHN RUSKIN Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the p...
JOHN RUSKIN Crime and the fear of crime have permeated the fabric of American life.
WARREN E. BURGER Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Taking Mr. Durkin off the steets puts a Grand Canyon-sized hole in the local drug business.
GARY GAMBARDELLA Life [had] replaced logic.
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Mathias remembered that once when he was a boy, he'd gone up to a pile of red apples that lay in the...
RICCARDO BRUNI Murder is a horror, but an often necessary horror, never criminal, which it is essential to tolerate...
MARQUIS DE SADE The wrong decision in this case could be a fatal one.
GARY GAMBARDELLA Instead of a fiance’ and a wife, Hopkins gets a warden and a parole officer.
GARY GAMBARDELLA Franny understood then that grace was not like a present. It could not be given, and it could not be...
AMANDA WARD EYRE We've got to make sure that the young, violent, serious juvenile offender is punished, that it...
JANET RENO Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for p...
HENRY FORD The community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by t...
OSCAR WILDE “A government's judicial system must always make the punishment must fit the crime. Too much is ty...
TROY J. GAINEY I think one of the keys to any crime-prevention program that's got to be developed is to focus o...
JANET RENO One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem on others.
JUVENAL The only punishment that does justice for the victims, the only punishment that fits the crime, is d...
PATRICK FITZGERALD Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent.
CICERO I am told that the proximity of punishment arouses real repentance in the criminal and sometimes awa...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY They only asked for punishments that fitted their crimes. Not ones that came like cupboards with bui...
ARUNDHATI ROY The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any tim...
MARK TWAIN It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as e...
MARGARET MEAD How inexpressible is the meanness of being a hypocrite! how
horrible is it to be a mischievous and...
VOLTAIRE (FRANCOIS MARIE AROUET VOLTAIRE) The conviction of having committed a fault is its first and
greatest punishment.
UNKNOWN I fear the carnival of crime is beginning on our border.
EDWARD BLAKE My object all sublime
I shall achieve in time--
To let the punishment fit the crime.
WILLIAM S. GILBERT Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment ...
DOROTHY DIX Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in...
DOROTHY DIX Homosexuality in Russia is a crime and the punishment is seven years in prison, locked up with the o...
YAKOV SMIRNOFF Look, I'm wrong sometimes. This is one of the times I hope I am.
GARY GAMBARDELLA The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder.
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO As the bull market goes on, people who take great risks achieve great rewards, seemingly without pun...
RON CHERNOW Christianity, with its doctrine of humility, of forgiveness, of love, is incompatible with the state...
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