Crime and Punishment Quotations

Quotation explaining how stealing out of poverty could be acceptable

“People, do not despise a thief if he steals to satisfy his hunger when he is starving”

Quotation explaining how those who break the law should be punished

“Who ever will not obey the law (…), let judgement be strictly executed on him”

Quotation explaining how one can break the law if it is unjust and goes against God’s principles

“We must obey God rather than human being”

Quotation against breaking the law due to greed

“Money is the root to all evil”

Quotation against murder

“Do not kill” - ten commandments

Quotations against crime

“There is neither jew nor gentile, slave nor free, male or female, for you are all one in Jesus Christ”

What is a case study that could justify murder?

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Wanted to kill Hitler for a loving cause - stop all the jews, disabled or black people dying in the holocaust just by killing one man

Quotation for prison due to it creating a social harmony?

“Blessed are the peace keepers”

Quotation against prison being the right punishment for crimes such as murder

“He who sheds human blood, by humans his blood should be shed”

Quotation for corporal punishment

“He who spares the rod hates their children, but the one who loves their children is careful to dicipline them”

Quotation against corporal punishment

“Do not repay evil with evil”

Quotation against community service

“An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, a life for a life”

Quotation for death penalty

“He who sheds human blood, by humans his blood should be shed”

Quotation against the death penalty

“Do not kill”

Quotation against the death penalty

“Game made man in his own image” - only God can give and take away life

Quotation for retribution

“An eye for an eye”

Quotation against retribution

“Do not repay evil with evil”

Quotation for deterrence

“A wise king winnows out the wicked; he drives the threshing wheel over them”

Quotation against deterrence

“Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you”A

Quotations for reformation

“Overcome evil with good”

“If a brother sins rebuke him, but if he repent forgive him”

Quotation against reformation

“An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, a life for a life”

Quotation for forgiveness

“You must continue to forgive them even if they do wrong to you seventy-seven times”

Quotations against suffering

“If anyone slaps your right cheek, turn to him the other also”

“Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you”

Case study for suffering

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