Crime and Punishment Quotes Flashcards
Quotes for having to follow the laws
‘let everyone be subject to the governing authorities’
‘whoever rebels against the authority is rebelling against what God has instituted’
Quote for an example of civil disobedience in the New Testaments
> Peter and John are warned by the Sanhedrin not to speak or teach in the name of Jesus and Peter said ‘Judge for yourselves whether it is right in God’s sight to obey you rather than God’
conflict between the order and the commands of Christ
Quote for not speaking out against an unjust law
‘Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.’ Bonhoeffer act of omission
Quote against retribution
‘Repay no one evil for evil…vengeance is mine’ said the Lord-Romans 12:17-19
‘eye for an eye and the world will be blind’ Gandhi
Quote against going to prison
‘Prison is a good way of making a bad person worse’ Douglas Hurd
Quote for going to prison
‘Prison works’ Michael Howard
Quote for forgiving people/against retribution
Jesus said ‘not 7 times but 77 times’
Do not take revenge but leave room for God’s wrath for it is written: ‘It is mine to avenge; I will repay’ says the Lord
Quote for reformation and not being judgemental
‘Why do you see the speck that is in your brother’s eye but not the log that is in your own’
Quote for punishment
‘If there’s a serious injury, you are to take life for life, eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth’
Quote for limiting punishment
‘If anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to them the other cheek also’
Islam quote against capital punishment
Take not life, which Allah has made sacred, except by way of justice and law. Thus does he command you, so that you may learn wisdon
Quote for a Christian view on committing a crime because of greed
You shall not covet…anything that belongs to your neighbour
Quote for a Muslim view on committing a crime because of greed
Competing for more distracts you until you go in your grave
Quote for God putting the system of government to rule citizens
Let everyone be subject to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established
Muslim quote against murder
Do not take life which God has made sacred except by right