Crime Quote by Cardinal Richelieu

Penalties serve to deter those who are not inclined to commit any crimes.

— Karl Kraus

The laws do not take upon them to punish any other than overt acts.

— Baron de Montesquieu

Criminals don't care what the law is.

— Marco Rubio

The law protects nothing in that very respect, in which it is, at the same time, in the eye of the law, a crime.

— William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield

The purpose of criminal law is to punish the enemies of those in power.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

This country does not punish its political enemies. What this country ensures is that no one is above the law.

— Jeff Sessions

“One should not punish a criminal unless one is able to help that criminal understand the constitution of the universe".”

— George Ohsawa

Let the punishment fit the crime,' goes the saying. Our criminal justice system - to a large degree - meets this standard.

— Suella Braverman

The criminal law is no use to decent people.

— George Bernard Shaw

It is better to prevent crimes than to punish them.

— Cesare Beccaria

All murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

— Voltaire

It is far more important the law should be administered with absolute integrity, than that in this case or in that the law should…

— John Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge