Horace Quotes

Murder may pass unpunishd for a time, But tardy justice will oertake the crime.

Crime generally punishes itself.

You kill men for the wrongs they have done, not the wrongs that they may do someday.

And where the offense is, let the great axe fall.

To believe in a just law of cause and effect, carrying with it a punishment or a reward, is to believe in righteousness.

Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.

They got the judges / They got the lawyers / They got the jury rolls / They got the law / They don’t come by ones. / They got the sheriffs / They got the deputies / They don’t come by twos. / They got the shotguns / They got the rope / We git the justice / In the end / And they come by tens.

As to the long time spent on lawsuits, that is due to concern for justice, that judges may not fail in passing correct judgments, by having to give sentence offhand; it is better that they should reflect, and conclude the case more tardily, than that by judging in a hurry they should both injure man and transgress against the Deity, the institutor of justice....

Let me remember, when I find myself inclined to pity a criminal, that there is likewise a pity due to the country.

The net of law is spread so wide, No sinner from its sweep may hide. Its meshes are so fine and strong They take in every child of wrong. O wondrous web of mystery ! Big fish alone escape from thee !

Crime and punishment grow out of one stem.

The courts used to be, fair and square, the avengers of secular crimes; but nowadays they demand respect even for the criminal.

Even the wicked get worse than they deserve.

He’s bound to have done something,” Nobby repeated. In this he was echoing the Patrician’s view of crime and punishment. If there was a crime, there should be punishment. If the specific criminal should be involved in the punishment process then this was a happy accident, but if not then any criminal would do, and since everyone was undoubtedly guilty of something, the net result was that, in general terms, justice was done.

The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.

Whether we bring our enemies to justice or bring justice to our enemies, justice will be done.

The crime should be punished no matter whether poverty or wealth caused it to occur, because the crime is wrong.

The law is not known, since there is nothing in it to know. We come across it only through its action, and it acts only through its sentence and its execution. It is not distinguishable from the application. We know it only through its imprint on our heart and our flesh: we are guilty, necessarily guilty. Guilt is like the moral thread which duplicates the thread of time.

Of course, as a German, I wouldn't like to tell the American people how to handle their criminal justice.

I feel like God gives you what you deserve. Whatever that time is, you get what you deserve.

People in my books tend to get their just deserts, even if not at the hands of the police.

I guess if life were fair, people who led decent lives would be rewarded, and people who led indecent lives would not be rewarded.

The laws only can determine the punishment of crimes, and the authority of making penal laws can only reside with the legislator, who represents the whole society united by the social compact.

We don't want crimes committed in New Mexico falling through the cracks. This legislation ensures that there is no area of our state where crimes can be committed without consequence.

Nobody does good to men with impunity.