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Letter "C" » Crime and Punishment
«Poverty is like punishment for a crime you didn't commit.»
«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.»
«Homosexuality in Russia is a crime and the punishment is seven years in prison, locked up with the other men. There is a three year waiting list.»
Author: Yakov Smirnoff
(Comedian)
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Homosexuality
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«No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been.»
Author: Hannah Arendt
(Philosopher, Political scientist)
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«Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.»
«Murder is a horror, but an often necessary horror, never criminal, which it is essential to tolerate in a republican State. Is it or is it not a crime? If it is not, why make laws for its punishment? And if it is, by what barbarous logic do you, to punish it, duplicate it by another crime?»
Author: Marquis De Sade
(Novelist)
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«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 brutalized by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
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«Let the punishment fit the crime»
«Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that, unsuspected, ripens with the flower of the pleasure that concealed it.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
concealed, Crime and Punishment, ripens, unsuspected
«Capital punishment would be more effective as a preventive measure if it were administered prior to the crime.»
Author: Woody Allen
(Actor, Author, Film Director, Screenwriter)
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