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A strange idea was pecking at his brain like a chicken in the egg, and very, very much absorbed him.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
What becomes a crime deserving capital punishment when the tables are turned is a matter of small moment when the negro woman is the accusing party.
— Ida B. Wells
My argument is not that I shouldn't have been punished, but that the punishment didn't fit the crime.
— Kevin Mitnick
Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that, unsuspected, ripens with the flower of the pleasure that concealed it.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The method of electrocution would be much better than the old method of hanging.
— Meldrim Thomson Jr.
Man is a creature who gets used to everything, and that, I think, is the best definition of him.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Some heinous crimes justify the ultimate punishment.
— Barack Obama
Let the punishment fit the crime.
— W.S. Gilbert
My father gave me Dostoevsky's 'Crime and Punishment' when I was in junior high; my junior high, angst-filled soul responded to that.
— Janet Fitch
Your fate is to be yourself, both punishment and crime.
— Jane Hirshfield
Build the prisons and they will commit the crimes.
— Brian Spellman
( ... )man holds the remedy in his own hands, and lets everything go its own way, simply through cowardice- that is an axiom.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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
Any punishment is an insult to the crime
— Nathan Filer
People also felt that a great crime had been committed, yet there was not going to be a great punishment.
— Bethany McLean
Sometimes love can be both the punishment and the crime.
— Steve Maraboli
The work of eradicating crimes is not by making punishment familiar, but formidable.
— Oliver Goldsmith
he worked with great intensity without sparing himself, & he was respected for this, but no one liked him" --crime & punishment
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
I wanted to show that crime doesn't pay. If you are saved and accept the Lord, you cannot use that as an excuse to avoid punishment.
— Robert Duvall
I deplore the horrible crime of child-murder ... We want prevention, not merely punishment. We must reach the root of the evil, and destroy it.
— Susan B. Anthony
Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.
— Henry Ford
To call it a crime against Mankind is to miss at least half its significance, it is also the punishment of a crime.
— Frederic Manning
Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.
— John Ruskin
The message has to be sent that if you commit a crime there has to be punishment.
— Benigno Aquino III
The man that does not fear punishment, little regards crime.
— Norm MacDonald