Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes, Punishment Quotes, Murder Quotes

To kill someone for committing murder is a punishment incomparably worse than the crime itself. Murder by legal sentence is immeasurably more terrible than murder by brigands.

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Capital punishment kills immediately, whereas lifetime imprisonment does so slowly. Which executioner is more humane? The one who kills you in a few minutes, or the one who wrests your life from you in the course of many years?

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Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay.

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It took the Church until 1832 to remove Galileo 's work from its list of books which Catholics were forbidden to read at the risk of dire punishment of their immortal souls.

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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.

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With every one, the expectation of a misfortune constitutes a dreadful, punishment. Suffering then assumes the proportions of the unknown, which is the soul's infinite.

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

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No severity of punishment deters when detection is uncertain, as it always must be.

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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?

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There are some duties we owe even to those who have wronged us. There is, after all, a limit to retribution and punishment.

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I'm sure if the punishment fits the crime, or is more severe, you're going to start stamping out a lot of things that are going on in football.

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Let the punishment be proportionate to the offense.

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Love is the source of every virtue in you and of every deed which deserves punishment.

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Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

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Punishment closely follows guilt as its companion.

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Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.

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Exemplary people concern themselves with virtue, small people concern themselves with territory. The ruling class thinks of punishment, the lower classes hope for benevolence.

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Children must be educated by love, not punishment.

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The contagion of crime is like that of the plague. Criminals collected together corrupt each other. They are worse than ever when, at the termination of their punishment, they return to society.

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We should find ourselves committed to killing a great many people whom we now leave living, and to leave living a great many people whom we at present kill. We should have to get rid of all ideas about capital punishment.

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