Crime and punishment
We read about crime and corruption every day, and we sometimes think that their perpetrators never get their comeuppance. Some sayings relevant to this issue:
Mankind fears evil, but heaven doesn’t. —Chinese proverb
He who sacrifices his conscience to ambition burns a picture to obtain the ashes. —Chinese
Laws control the lesser man. Right conduct controls the greater one. —Chinese
One act of justice can overpower a hundred evils. —Chinese
Fear follows crime, and is its punishment. —Voltaire
He who profits from a crime commits it. —Seneca
Many a crime deemed innocent on earth is registered in heaven; and these, no doubt, have each their record, with a curse annexed. —William Cowpee
Crime is a disease that should be treated as such. —Mahatma Gandhi
Providence sees to it that no man gets happiness out of crime. —Conte Vittorio Alfieri
There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass. —Ralph Waldo Emerson
Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law. —Louis Brandeis
Whenever man commits a crime, heaven finds a witness. —Edward Bulwer-Lytton
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