Crime And Punishment Quotes - Page 2

• 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

  Believe, Air, Punishment

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

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• 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

  Stupid, Punishment, Asking

  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

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• Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen.

  George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax

  Horse, Men, Justice

  c.1687 Political Thoughts and Reflections,'Of Punishment'.

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• Any punishment that does not correct, that can merely rouse rebellion in whoever has to endure it, is a piece of gratuitous infamy which makes those who impose it more guilty in the eyes of humanity, good sense and reason, nay a hundred times more guilty than the victim on whom the punishment is inflicted.

  Marquis de Sade

  Eye, Punishment, Humanity

  Sade (marquis de) (1965). “Selected letters”

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• 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.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Mean, Men, Race

  Fyodor Dostoyevsky (2006). “Crime and Punishment”, p.61, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Break what must be broken, once for all, that's all, and take the suffering on oneself.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Broken, Suffering, Break

  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

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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.

  Hannah Arendt

  Punishment, Criminals, Firsts

  Hannah Arendt (2006). “Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil”, p.238, Penguin

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• Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.

  Albert Camus

  Law, Punishment, Intuition

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• Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that unsuspected ripens within the flower of the pleasure which concealed it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Flower, Punishment, Fruit

  "Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson".

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• What do you think, would not one tiny crime be wiped out by thousands of good deeds?

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Thinking, Deeds, Tiny

  Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.61, Google Publishing

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• Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Trust, Forgiveness, Powerful

  1883-92 Also sprach Zarathustra ( Thus Spake Zarathustra) (translated by R J Hollingdale).

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

  Michel Foucault

  Punishment, Different, Function

  Michel Foucault (2012). “Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison”, p.303, Vintage

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• Let us have compassion for those under chastisement. Alas, who are we ourselves? Who am I and who are you? Whence do we come and is it quite certain that we did nothing before we were born? This earth is not without some resemblance to a gaol. Who knows but that man is a victim of divine justice? Look closely at life. It is so constituted that one senses punishment everywhere.

  Victor Hugo

  Men, Compassion, Divine Justice

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• Power is given only to him who dares to stoop and take it ... one must have the courage to dare.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Punishment, Given, Dare

  1866 Crime and Punishment, pt.5, ch.4 (translated by David Magarshak).

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• 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.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Suffering, New Life

  "Crime and Punishment". Book by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Pt. II, 1866.

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• 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.

  Aristotle

  Fear, Men, Evil

  Aristotle (1885). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.185, Jazzybee Verlag

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• 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.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  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

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• The fear of appearances is the first symptom of impotence.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Firsts, Appearance, Symptoms

  Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.510, Google Publishing

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  Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Truth, Honesty, Punishment

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

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• 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.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Thinking, Ideas, House

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• Crime, like virtue, has its degrees.

  Jean Racine

  Degrees, Virtue, Crime

  1677 Phe'dre, act 4, sc.2.

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

  Patricia Highsmith

  Men, Law, Crime

  Patricia Highsmith (2001). “Strangers on a Train”, p.252, W. W. Norton & Company

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• 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.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Brother, Punishment, Stuff

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• A literary creation can appeal to us in all sorts of ways-by its theme, subject, situations, characters. But above all it appeals to us by the presence in it of art. It is the presence of art in Crime and Punishment that moves us deeply rather than the story of Raskolnikov's crime.

  Boris Pasternak

  Art, Moving, Reading

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• You want to make a guy comfortable enough to confess to murder.

  Bill Clark

  Guy, Want, Murder

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