Crime & Punishment Quotes

Question 1

Give a Christian quote against evil/wrong thoughts and intentions

Answer 1

‘But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart’ - Matthew 5:27-8

Question 2

Give a Christian quote about poverty being a reason for crime

Answer 2

‘If Christians don’t dig deep and generously open their wallets, they do not have genuine faith’ - Pope Francis

Question 3

Give a Buddhist quote about poverty being a reason for crime

Answer 3

‘from goods not being bestowed on the destitute poverty grew rife; from poverty growing rife stealing increased’ - Diqha Nikaya

Question 4

Give a Christian quote about upbringing being a reason for crime

Answer 4

‘Train up a child in the way that he should go; when he is old he will not depart from it’ - Proverbs 22:6

Question 5

Give a Buddhist reference about addiction being a reason for crime

Answer 5

The 5th moral precept - abstain from intoxicants which cloud the mind

Question 6

Give a Christian reference about greed being a reason for crime

Answer 6

The Ten Commandments - taught not to covet. Envy is one of the seven deadly sins.

Question 7

Give a Buddhist reference about greed being a reason for crime

Answer 7

One of the three poisons

Question 8

Give Christian quotes about hating the sin, not the sinner

Answer 8

‘With love for mankind and hatred of sins’ - St Augustine
‘Love your neighbour as yourself’ - Mark 12:31
‘You are all one in Christ Jesus’ - Galatians 3:28

Question 9

Give a Christian quote about the treatment of prisoners

Answer 9

‘For I was in prison and you came to visit me’ - Parable of the Sheep and Goats

Question 10

Give a Buddhist quote about the treatment of lawbreakers

Answer 10

‘Whoever is not hostile, among the hostile… him I call a holy man’ - Dhammapada verse 406

Question 11

Give contrasting Christian quotes about the aims of punishment

Answer 11

‘Do not take revenge, my dear friends, but leave room for God’s wrath’ - Romans 12:19-21
‘Eye for eye, tooth for tooth’ - Exodus 21:23-25
‘Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good’ - Romans 12:19-21

Question 12

Give Buddhist quotes/references about the aims of punishment

Answer 12

‘We should not seek revenge…help them rise towards Nirvana, rather than let them sink to lower levels of rebirth’ - Dalai Lama

‘We are not punished for our sins, but by them’ - David Loy

Story of Angulimala. He killed many people, but when he met the Buddha, he did not punish him for his crimes, and instead encouraged him to live a better life. Angulimala then left his life of crime to become a follower of the Buddha.

Question 13

The ‘golden rule’ of Christianity

Answer 13

‘Do unto others as you would have them do unto you’ - Matthew 7:12

Question 14

Give a quote about Christian attitudes to suffering

Answer 14

‘We also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope’ - Romans 5:3-4

Question 15

Give a Christian quote about the importance of discipline

Answer 15

‘He who spares the rod hates their children, but the one who loves their children is careful to discipline them’ - Proverbs 13:24

Question 16

Give Buddhists quotes about capital punishment

Answer 16

‘An action, even if it brings benefit to oneself, cannot be considered if it causes physical and mental pain for another being’ - Dhammapada
‘The more evil that comes from him, the more good will go from me’

Question 17

Give Christian quotes about capital punishment

Answer 17

‘Anyone who strikes a person with a fatal blow is to be put to death’ - Exodus 21:12
‘…there is no authority except for God and those God has created’ - Romans 13:1
‘… by his crime, he has already dispossessed himself of his right to live’ - Pope Pius XII
‘Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed’ - Genesis 9:6

Question 18

Give Christian quotes about forgiveness

Answer 18

‘Forgive us our sins, as we forgive those who sin against us’ - Lord’s Prayer
‘Father forgive them, for they know not what they are doing’ - Luke 23:34

Question 19

Give a Buddhist quote about forgiveness

Answer 19

‘He abused me, he struck me, he overcame me, he robbed me. Of those who wrap themselves up in it hatred is not quenched.’ - Dhammapada