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  • Every man is his own law court and punishes himself enough.

    Men   Law   Crime  
    Patricia Highsmith (2001). “Strangers on a Train”, p.252, W. W. Norton & Company
  • No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes.

    Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil epilogue (1963)
  • Power is given only to him who dares to stoop and take it ... one must have the courage to dare.

    Punishment   Given   Dare  
    1866 Crime and Punishment, pt.5, ch.4 (translated by David Magarshak).
  • Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.

    "Crime and Punishment". Book by Fyodor Dostoevsky (Part VI, Chapter 4, p. 471), 1866.
  • 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.

    Eye   Heart   Sick  
    Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “Crime and Punishment: Dostoevsky's Collections”, p.483, 谷月社
  • Man has it all in his hands, and it all slips through his fingers from sheer cowardice.

    Men   Hands   Cowardice  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Capital punishment would be more effective as a preventive measure if it were administered prior to the crime.

  • I think I had a particular moment when I was 15 years old. I read 'Crime and Punishment,' and that book just, I think, more than any other book made me want to be a writer, 'cause it was the first time that I hadn't just entered a book, but a book had entered me.

    Book   Thinking   Years  
    "'Nothing Gold' Stays Long In Appalachia". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. February 16, 2013.
  • 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 (2016). “Aphorisms”, p.50, Oscar Wilde
  • The book that convinced me I wanted to be a writer was 'Crime and Punishment'. I put the thing down after reading it in a fever over two or three days... I said, 'If this is what a book can be, then that is what I want to do.'

    "The mighty Quinn" by James Campbell, www.theguardian.com. November 12, 2005.
  • The biggest book for me, when I was fifteen, was Crime and Punishment, which I read in a kind of fever. When I put it down, I thought, if this is what novels are then I want to be a novelist.

    "A Connoisseur of Clouds, a Meteorologist of Whims: The Rumpus Interview with Paul Auster". Interview with Juliet Linderman, therumpus.net. November 16, 2009.
  • The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.

    Fear   Men   Evil  
    Aristotle (1885). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.185, Jazzybee Verlag
  • 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.

    Husband   Gun   Clerks  
  • He did not know that the new life would not be given him for nothing, that he would have to pay dearly for it, that it would cost him great striving, great suffering. But that is the beginning of a new story -- the story of the gradual renewal of a man, the story of his gradual regeneration, of his passing from one world into another, of his initiation into a new unknown life. That might be the subject of a new story, but our present story is ended.

    "Crime and Punishment". Book by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Pt. II, 1866.
  • When reason fails, the devil helps!

    Fyodor Dostoyevsky (2006). “Crime and Punishment”, p.173, ReadHowYouWant.com
  • Dark windows are often a very clear proof.

    Dark   Window   Crime  
  • I read 'Crime and Punishment' years ago and don't recall the details of it, but I do retain a strong sense of the creeping paranoia and panic.

    "Culture" by Arthur Smith, www.theguardian.com. April 3, 2002.
  • You see I kept asking myself then: why am I so stupid that if others are stupid—and I know they are—yet I won't be wiser?

    Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.412, Google Publishing
  • Break what must be broken, once for all, that's all, and take the suffering on oneself.

    Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.330, Google Publishing
  • Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.

    1883-92 Also sprach Zarathustra ( Thus Spake Zarathustra) (translated by R J Hollingdale).
  • We're always thinking of eternity as an idea that cannot be understood, something immense. But why must it be? What if, instead of all this, you suddenly find just a little room there, something like a village bath-house, grimy, and spiders in every corner, and that's all eternity is. Sometimes, you know, I can't help feeling that that's what it is.

    Thinking   Ideas   House  
  • In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating.

    Michel Foucault (2012). “Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison”, p.303, Vintage
  • Don’t be overwise; fling yourself straight into life, without deliberation; don’t be afraid - the flood will bear you to the bank and set you safe on your feet again.

    Feet   Bears   Safe  
    Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.452, Google Publishing
  • What if man is not really a scoundrel, man in general, I mean, the whole race of mankind-then all the rest is prejudice, simply artificial terrors and there are no barriers and it's all as it should be.

    Mean   Men   Race  
    Fyodor Dostoyevsky (2006). “Crime and Punishment”, p.61, ReadHowYouWant.com
  • I know that you don't believe it, but indeed, life will bring you through. You will live it down in time. What you need now is fresh air, fresh air, fresh air!

    Fyodor Dostoevsky (1999). “Crime and Punishment”, p.635, Modern Library
  • 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.

    "Tristes Tropiques". Book by Claude Lévi-Strauss, translated by John and Doreen Weightman. Chapter 38: "A Little Glass of Rum," pp. 388-389, 1955.
  • When I got into "Anna Karenina" and "Brothers Karamazov" and "Crime and Punishment," that was the stuff that - that had a big effect on me, because it was so psychological.

    Source: www.pbs.org
  • He’s bound to have done something,” Nobby repeated. In this he was echoing the Patrician’s view of crime and punishment. If there was a crime, there should be punishment. If the specific criminal should be involved in the punishment process then this was a happy accident, but if not then any criminal would do, and since everyone was undoubtedly guilty of something, the net result was that, in general terms, justice was done.

    Terry Pratchett (2008). “Men At Arms: (Discworld Novel 15)”, p.252, Random House
  • I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.

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

    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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