Crime And Punishment Quotes

“No amount of me trying to explain myself was doing any good. I didn't even know what was going on inside of me, so how could I have explained it to them?”
― Sierra D. Waters, Debbie.

“Life [had] replaced logic.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

“Today I wore a pair of faded old jeans and a plain grey baggy shirt. I hadn't even taken a shower, and I did not put on an ounce of makeup. I grabbed a worn out black oversized jacket to cover myself with even though it is warm outside. I have made conscious decisions lately to look like less of what I felt a male would want to see. I want to disappear.”
― Sierra D. Waters, Debbie.

“Moreover, in the system of criminal punishment in the libertarian world, the emphasis would never be, as it is now, on" society's "jailing the criminal; the emphasis would necessarily be on compelling the criminal to make restitution to the victim of his crime. The present system, in which the victim is not recompensed but instead has to pay taxes to support the incarceration of his own attacker — would be evident nonsense in a world that focuses on the defense of property rights and therefore on the victim of crime.”
― Murray N. Rothbard

“Intimidated, old traumas triggered, and fearing for my safety, I did what I felt I needed to do.”
― Sierra D. Waters, Debbie.

“Many of the Nazis were convicted after the war, but they were not convicted for being 'unreasonable'. They were convicted for being gruesome murderers.”
― Jostein Gaarder, Sophie’s World

“Crack had a social logic to it, a specific kind of reasoning that drew from a vast well of common experience for its symbolic resonance. Crack stood for pain and power, chaos and order, the truth behind the lie. Crack was a sociolegal logic grounded in blood.”
― Dimitri A. Bogazianos, 5 Grams: Crack Cocaine, Rap Music, and the War on Drugs

“He told me that if I hung up, he'd do it. He would commit suicide. He told me that if I called the cops he would kill every single one of them and I knew that he had the potential and the means to do it”
― Sierra D. Waters, Debbie.

“The offender must be able to give something back. But criminals are most often poor people. They have nothing to give. The answers to this are many. It is correct that our prisons are by and large filled with poor people. We let the poor pay with the only commodity that is close to being equally distributed in society: time.”
― Nils Christie, Limits to Pain: The Role of Punishment in Penal Policy

“As aparições são, por assim dizer, pedaços ou fragmentos de outros mundos, o seu princípio. É claro que o homem são não tem motivo para vê-las, porque o homem são é o homem mais terreno, e deve viver uma vida terrestre, em harmonia e ordem. Mas quando adoece, ou quando a ordem terrena se altera no organismo, começa imediatamente a se mostrar a possibilidade de outro mundo, e, quanto mais doente, mais em contato com esse outro mundo ele se encontra, de maneira que, quando morre completamente, o homem vai direto para esse mundo”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

“The Government cannot be concerned any longer with outmoded penelogical theories. Cram criminals together and see what happens, You get concentrated criminality, crime in the midst of punishment.”
― Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

“Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that unsuspected ripens within the flower of the pleasure which concealed it. Cause and effect, means and ends, seed and fruit, cannot be severed; for the effect already blooms in the cause, the end preexists in the means, the fruit in the seed.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance: An Excerpt from Collected Essays, First Series

“Shouldn't it be made a crime to vie for a position you can't deliver? We have a confused and compromised executive and an assembly of pigs providing checks and balances in Kenya.”
― DON SANTO

“Don't you wash away half your crime, when you go off to accept your suffering?'

Sonia”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

“That highest value which anticipates and prevents rather than avenges crime.”
― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Valley of Fear

“Depois, o sofrimento também é bom. Sofra um pouco. O nosso Nicolai talvez tenha motivos para querer sofrer. Mas você... entregue-se antes à vida, porque, afinal não acredita nesse sofrimento.”
― Dostoievski

“Há uma espécie de teoria: o crime isolado é permitido se o seu fim principal é bom: Um mal único e cem acções boas! Naturalmente que se torna vexatório para um mancebo com qualidades e grande amor-próprio saber que, se tivesse, por exemplo, três mil rublos, a sua carreira, o seu futuro tomaria outro rumo; mas, essas notas cobiçadas, não as possui! Acrescente a isso a irritação causada pela fome, por uma instalação exígua, pelos andrajos, pela viva consciência da sua própria situação social e ao mesmo tempo a da mãe e a da irmã. Mais ainda: a vaidade, o orgulho e assim por diante... e até as boas inclinações... Não o acuso de modo nenhum. Aliás, não é comigo. Há ainda uma teoriazinha pessoal... uma teoria no seu género... segundo a qual os indivíduos se dividem em elementos e em homens verdadeiros, quer dizer, homens para quem, atendendo à sua situação superior, a lei não existe. (...) o que o seduziu foi que os homens de génio não ligam importância ao mal isolado: passam adiante, sem perguntar nada. Parece que se considerou, ele próprio, homem de génio quer dizer, persuadiu-se durante certo tempo. Sofreu muito e ainda sofre com a ideia de que construiu bem a sua teoria, mas que, quanto a passar adiante sem fazer interrogações, não foi capaz e, por consequência, não é homem de génio.”
― Dostoevsky

“- O sangue que toda a gente derrama - volveu ele quase fora de si -, o sangue que corre e sempre correu neste mundo como uma cascata, o sangue que se entorna como champanhe, pelo qual nos coroam no Capitólio e nos proclamam depois benfeitor da humanidade (...) Eu, porém, não dei até ao fim o primeiro passo, por simples cobardia. (...) se houvesse triunfado, coroar-me-iam de louros, ao passo que presentemente me encontro apanhado no laço!”
― Dostoevsky

“Ignorance has no rewards.”
― Niedria Kenny, Order in the Courtroom: The Tale of a Texas Poker Player

“¿Vivir para existir? (...) La simple existencia, siempre había significado poca cosa para él; siempre anheló más.”
― Fiódor Dostoyevski, Crime and Punishment

“Peterson te disse que não conseguia entender por que Raskólnikov tinha se arrependido, ele era um bandido e" bandidos não se arrependem ", ele disse," lá na vila, quando um cara mata pra roubar, ninguém se arrepende ". Você disse que talvez não fosse bem assim. Porque as pessoas se arrependiam, mas ninguém saía por aí gritando que estava se sentindo culpado. Peterson riu. Você prosseguiu dizendo que Raskólnikov, por um momento, achou que fosse Deus, achou que era onipotente, achou que a vida daquela senhora e a da irmã dela não valiam nada. E talvez esse tenha sido o grande erro.”
― Jeferson Tenório, O Avesso da Pele

“I wanted to kill without all the casuistry, Sonia, to kill for myself, myself alone!”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Do you know, Rodion Romanich, what the idea of" suffering "means to some of those people? It doesn't mean suffering on someone else's behalf; it's just the idea that" one has to suffer "; you have to accept suffering, and if it comes from the authorities, so much the better.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Actually, if you want to judge certain types of people impartially, you have to start by shaking off some preconceived ideas and accepted notions about the usual sorts of people and things we see around us. Your own judgement, more than anyone else's, is something I've a right to rely on.

Svidrigailov”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

“They say that's necessary for my suffering! What's the point, what on earth is the point of all these useless tribulations? What purpose do they serve? Shall I be better able to understand things then, when I'm crushed by suffering and idiocy, when I'm a helpless old man, after twenty years in a labour camp, than I understand them now? So what's the point of living, then?”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

“But he had rigorously examined himself, and in all conscience he could find no no. particularly terrible guilt in his past, nothing beyond a simple blunder, which could have happened to anyone. What made him ashamed was the fact that he, Raskolnikov, had come to grief so blindly, hopelessly, obtusely, stupidly, through some decree of blind fate; and now, if he wanted to find any peace whatsoever, he must reconcile himself to the 'absurdity' of that decree, and humble himself before it”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

“A szerelemben támadtak fel, mindkettejük szívében az élet kiapadhatatlan forrása fakadt a másik számára.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

“As long as I held the angel mask firmly over my demonic smile, no one doubted my honesty.”
― Tanya Thompson, Assuming Names: A Con Artist's Masquerade

“Does breaking the law for a good cause still make one a criminal? What if it’s the only way to restore justice? Particularly in matters of love, where crime and punishment are not always apparent?”
― Torres and Firsht, Tell Me Your Plans: A riveting novel of love and ambition

“Your fire burned me, mine set you free.”
― Ricardo Coelho, Seduced by Vengeance: He knew that only he could save himself