Quotations
Crime

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

One is absolutely sickened, not by 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.

- Oscar Wilde
If taking a bath in the holy Ganges can really wash off your 'sins', then why are poor criminals put behind bars? Giving them a dip in the Ganges, why aren't their 'sins' also washed off?
- Deep Trivedi

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.

- Oscar Wilde