Shantaram

Have been reading most of my free time these days. I particularly felt that this thought is very true, and kind of touched my heart.

Wherever you go in the world, in any society, it is always the same when it comes to questions of justice. We concentrate our laws, investigations, prosecutions and punishments on how much crime is in the sin, rather than how much sin is in the crime.

Ideally, the most important thing should be the amount of sin that is in the crime. Why don't we make money from prostitution and drugs. Because of the sin that is in those crimes. It is for this reason I will not sell children or women or drugs. In all these things, the sin in the crime is so great that a man must give up his soul for the profit he makes. And if a man gives his soul, if he becomes a soul-less man, it takes nothing less than a miracle for him to regain it.