Top 23 On Crimes And Punishments Quotes
#1. 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
#2. When a woman says nothing's wrong, that means everything's wrong. And when a woman says everything's wrong, that means everything's wrong! And when a woman says something's not funny, you'd better not laugh your ass off!
Homer
#3. Do you know what punishments I've endured for my crimes, my sins? None. I am proof of the absurdity of men's most treasured abstractions. A just universe wouldn't tolerate my existence.
Brent Weeks
#5. the southern countries in which d'Artagnan had hitherto
Alexandre Dumas
#6. 'Getting smart on crime' does not mean reducing sentences or punishments for crimes.
Kamala Harris
#7. [W]e are prone to forget that the planet may be measured by man, but not according to man.
Eduard Suess
#8. He tends to trust pictures more than he trusts words. Not because pictures cannot lie but because, once they leave the darkroom, they are fixed, immutable.
J.M. Coetzee
#9. My body and its condition are a barometer that is always trying to tell me which direction to go for my maximum creativity, health and fulfillment. And, because I'm human, I get off track now and again but I can always get back on.
Christiane Northrup
#10. Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light.
James Russell Lowell
#11. I shared a room with my parents until I was 7, and I lived with my uncles and aunts and my cousins and my grandfather ... so the house was always full of people.
Dichen Lachman
#12. You will feel the full force of the law and if you are old enough to commit these crimes you are old enough to face the punishments. And to these people I would say this: you are not only wrecking the lives of others, you are potentially wrecking your own life too.
David Cameron
#13. They only asked for punishments that fitted their crimes. Not ones that came like cupboards with built-in bedrooms. Not ones you spent your whole life in, wandering through its maze of shelves.
Arundhati Roy
#14. Punishments of unreasonable severity, especially where indiscriminately afflicted, have less effect in preventing crimes, and amending the manners of a people, than such as are more merciful in general, yet properly intermixed with due distinctions of severity.
William Blackstone
#16. He wouldn't even dance with Levana at the stupid ball if he could help it - to hell with diplomacy.
Marissa Meyer
#17. If there were an exact and universal scale of punishments and crimes, we would have a fairly reliable and shared instrument to measure the degree of tyranny and liberty, of the basic humanity or malice of the different nations.
Cesare Beccaria
#18. Everyone agrees in theory that we can't judge a new idea or point of view unless we enter into it and try it out, but the practice itself is rare.
Peter Elbow
#19. A key ingredient to achieving your goals is to make sure your goals are totally congruent with who you are as a person. Your head and hearts desire must match. It's such an important step in goal achievement and if we miss it, we can end up travelling a long way down the wrong path!
Rachael Bermingham
#20. I believe the spreading of Catholicism to be the most horrible means of political and social degradation left in the world.
Charles Dickens
#21. And I just keep going and going, picking up pins and stabbing them into the paper until the map is covered with places I'll never see and the clear plastic box is as empty as I am.
Tamara Ireland Stone
#22. In a well governed state, there are few punishments, not because there are many pardons, but because criminals are rare; it is when a state is in decay that the multitude of crimes is a guarantee of impunity.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#23. Violence is what happens when we don't know what else to do with our suffering.
Parker J. Palmer
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