Crimes are more effectually prevented by the certainty…

No severity of punishment deters when detection is uncertain, as it always must be.

— George Bernard Shaw

Societies have debated the severity of punishment for vile acts over millennia, with complex moral arguments on both sides of the question. But citizens…

— Rohini Nilekani

it is the certainty of being punished and not the horrifying spectacle of public punishment that must discourage crime

— Michel Foucault

The punishment of death is the war of a nation against a citizen whose destruction it judges to be necessary or useful.

— Cesare Beccaria

It is suggested that in domestic violence at least the presence or absence of a firearm, or of any other type of weapon, is…

— Colin Greenwood

The world is a wonderfully weird place, consensual reality is significantly flawed, no institution can be trusted, certainty is a mirage, security a delusion,…

— Tom Robbins

Sometimes we have the absolute certainty there's something inside us that's so hideous and monstrous that if we ever search it out we won't…

— Hubert Selby, Jr

The past and the future become unimportant. There is only that moment, and the incredible certainty that everything under the sun has been written…

— Paulo Coelho

In the mental disturbance and effort of writing, what sustains you is the certainty that on every page there is something left unsaid.

— Cesare Pavese

“Death is the one great certainty in life. That’s what my dad used to say. Nothing else is certain. Not love. Not happiness. Not…

— Mila Gray

The significance and volume of repairs that are needed across the country demand that we give state and local governments the long-term certainty they…

— Sam Graves

Every single person who is a member of our party deserves to have certainty. They deserve to know that my attention and focus is…

— Annamie Paul

Of course I doubt. I do not practice a certainty. I practice a faith.

— Robert Breault

As a businessman, I know that businesses need certainty.

— Bill Foster

A common fallacy in much of the adverse criticism to which science is subjected today is that it claims certainty, infallibility and complete emotional…

— Cyril Norman Hinshelwood