Agatha Christie Quotes, Punishment Quotes, Evil Quotes

Evil never goes unpunished, Monsieur. But the punishment is sometimes secret.

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The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.

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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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Amnesty, n. The state's magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish.

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If he has a conscience he will suffer for his mistake. That will be his punishment-as well as the prison.

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The purpose of punishment is to improve those who do the punishing--that is the final recourse of those who support punishment.

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The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.

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It is the writer's business not to accuse and not to prosecute, but to champion the guilty, once they are condemned and suffer 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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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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Crime and punishment grow out of one stem.

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If God really wanted to punish, he'd answer all our prayers.

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To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.

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I am an exile; but it is the fault that pains; The punishment is nought; that it is deserved Is all the pain.

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Guide them by edicts, keep them in line with punishments, and the common people will stay out of trouble but will have no sense of shame. Guide them by virtue, keep them in line with the rites, and they will, besides having a sense of shame, reform themselves.

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People with new ideas, people with the faintest capacity for saying something new, are extremely few in number, extraordinarily so, in fact.

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The envious pine at others' success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.

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Guide the people by law, subdue them by punishment; they may shun crime, but will be void of shame. Guide them by example, subdue them by courtesy; they will learn shame, and come to be good.

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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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Paying tax should be framed as a glorious civic duty worthy of gratitude - not a punishment for making money.

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