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