To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime.
We are often deterred from crime by the disgrace of others.
It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace.
Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent.
That only is a disgrace to a man which he has deserved to suffer.
It is better to die than to preserve this life by incurring disgrace. The loss of life causes but a moment's grief, but disgrace brings grief every day of one's life.
The penalty may be removed, the crime is eternal.
In Washington it is an honor to be disgraced. you have to have been somebody to fall.
Punishment is justice for the unjust.
It is more of a disgrace to be robbed of what one has than to fail in some new undertaking.