Simone Weil Quotes

I did my time for the rape. I paid my money to Las Vegas. I paid my dues.

The crime and not the scaffold makes the shame.

It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace.

I went to prison, I paid my bill.

If crimes have been committed it is necessary to investigate. They say that the number of victims have been exaggerated, but one case is enough. Cain slew Abel only once. Christ only once was crucified.

All judges had rather that ten innocent should suffer than that one guilty should escape

I prefer a prison full of criminals than a graveyard full of innocent people.

Murder will out, this my conclusion.

I don't want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school.

I have been used for a purpose, and there will be a certain tragic occurrence happening if you don't take my testimony and somehow vindicate me so my people don't suffer because of what I have done.

Having gone through what I went through, watching my family be torn to shreds and my children suffer immensely, I can't be the agent of doing that to someone else. I can't be the agent of causing someone to go to prison.

Nothing of course was ever done to Bill for the killing of Tutt.

Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

Blame is for God and small children.

Let the Lord judge the criminals.

All pain is a punishment, and every punishment is inflicted for love as much as for justice.

The capture of Saddam Hussein has proven to the bad ones, to the guilty ones, to the sinful ones that they cannot run forever. Sooner or later, the other criminals will also be found from their hideouts.

When an athlete has relegated the persistent rumors of cheating to the back room of the mind, he hasn't really forgotten them. And when he glances back to where rumors hunker in the darkness, he hopes with a savage heart that somehow, some day, those cheaters will be brought to justice.

Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime.

My argument is not that I shouldn't have been punished, but that the punishment didn't fit the crime.

Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.

Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls.

I don't believe in killing people. I believe in locking you up for the rest of your life.

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.

I hear they burn for murder. Well, they say it just takes a second to die.