Crime Consequence Quotes

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

Obviously, people who commit crimes should be punished. Even people who steal socks and 'Snow White' videos should probably do time if they have priors, especially serious priors. But the punishment has to fit the crime, and the standard has to be the same for everyone.

The fear of murder has grown so enormous in the United States that it leaves a taint, like the mark of Cain, on everyone murder touches.

Drug dealers need to understand a simple fact. You shoot a cop and you're going to be severely punished—fast. And if I had my way, I'd say with your life.

None of my peers avoided prison. None of 'em.

Every crime will bring remorse to the man who committed it

Let me remember, when I find myself inclined to pity a criminal, that there is likewise a pity due to the country.

But from each crime are born bullets that will one day seek out in you where the heart lies.

He has committed the crime who profits by it.

Crime generally punishes itself.

I went to prison; therefore, I've been rehabilitated, and now I want to get on with my life. I have paid for what I did, end of story.

Punishment follows close on crime.

The crime should be punished no matter whether poverty or wealth caused it to occur, because the crime is wrong.

We don't want you convicted for condiment theft. You go to that prison, you'll meet big-time operators. Maple syrup stealers.

Let the punishment be proportionate to the offense.

Nowadays the thief cannot be distinguished from his victim. Neither has any valuable objects on him.

We've got to make sure that the young, violent, serious juvenile offender is punished, that it's fair punishment, that it's punishment that fits the crime and that is understood and that is anticipated and expected.

If [Moroccans born in Holland] commit serious crimes - I believe we should strip them indeed of the Dutch nationality and send them back to Morocco as Morocco does.

Should any American soldier be so base and infamous as to injure any Canadian or Indian in his person or property, I do most earnestly enjoin you to bring him to such severe and exemplary punishment, as the enormity of the crime may require. Should it extend to death itself, it shall not be disproportioned to its guilt, at such a time and in such a cause.

If a man should wanton walk with crime ... he shall find in death no great deliverance.

Great crimes come never singly; they are linked To sins that went before.

Prison is a recruitment center for the army of crime. That is what it achieves.

We don't want crimes committed in New Mexico falling through the cracks. This legislation ensures that there is no area of our state where crimes can be committed without consequence.