Famous Quotes & Sayings

Confucius

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.

Andrew Fastow

I wish I could undo what I did at Enron but I can't. I understand that I deserve punishment. Your honor, I accept the prison sentence that you are about to impose and will serve it without bitterness.

Tamora Pierce

Face it," Gary told her kindly. "You'll never catch up. You just do as much as you can and take the punishments without saying anything. Sometimes I wonder if that isn't what they're really trying to teach us--to take plenty and keep our mouths shut.

George R. R. Martin

Sins may be forgiven. Crimes require punishment.

George Eliot

Loquacity with tongue or pen is its own reward -- or, punishment.

J. C. Ryle

The fear of punishment, the desire of reward, the sense of duty, are all useful arguments, in their way, to persuade people to holiness. But they are all weak and powerless, until a person loves Christ.

Georges Bernanos

Purity is not imposed upon us as though it were a kind of punishment, it is one of those mysterious but obvious conditions of that supernatural knowledge of ourselves in the Divine, which we speak of as faith. Impurity does not destroy this knowledge, it slays our need for it.

Friedrich Nietzsche

One is punished best for one's virtues.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

In a well governed state, there are few punishments, not because there are many pardons, but because criminals are rare; it is when a state is in decay that the multitude of crimes is a gaurantee of impunity.

Aretha Franklin

Soul is a constant. It's cultural. It's always going to be there, in different flavors and degrees.

Ben Nicholson

The corruption of the American soul is consumerism.

Charles Bukowski

You have my soul and I have your money

Aristotle

Of the irrational part of the soul again one division appears to be common to all living things, and of a vegetative nature.

Ben Jonson

Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!

Deepak Chopra

The universe has a body and soul and evolves through cosmic time. As microcosms of stardust, we do the same.

Donna Tartt

For if the modern mind is whimsical and discursive, the classical mind is narrow, unhesitating, relentless. It is not a quality of intelligence that one encounters frequently these days. But though I can digress with the best of them, I am nothing in my soul if not obsessive.

Damian Marley

Did you know destruction of the soul is not the ending to life: Fear not of the Antichrist.

Clive Barker

Whatever capacity she possesses to supernaturally beguile a human soul—and she possesses many—she liked his clear-sightedness too well, to blind him that way.

John Ashcroft

perhaps the largest group of crime victims in our history.

Brad Pitt

Crime is just unvarnished capitalism, after all.

David Harris

There are a lot of criminals in this city, ... We were the first on the water, we were the first to rescue people.

Mark Tuohey

We're going through the facts with the government. I don't think there's a crime here. Nothing's decided.

Doris Lessing

Hitler admired Stalin, quite properly seeing himself as a mere infant in crime compared to his great exemplar.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

One crime has to be concealed by another.

Michael Connelly

The best crime novels are not about how a detective works on a case; they are about how a case works on a detective.

Dawn Barkman

Obviously, that person is a Good Samaritan, and they may know where the crime scene is.

Janet Reno

Money laundering is a very sophisticated crime and we must be equally sophisticated, ... an essential front in the war on narcotics.