Crime Quote by Cesare Beccaria Download Open image “It is better to prevent crimes than to punish them.” — Cesare Beccaria ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Crime Pragmatism
Penalties serve to deter those who are not inclined to commit any crimes. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
Punishment can do a lot for criminals, and send a message to the rest of society. — Bill Bennett Copy Share Image
The purpose of the law is not to prevent a future offense, but to punish the one actually committed. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
If you think that you can stop crime by catching us, locking us up, punishing us by brutal treatment, hanging or electrocuting us, sterilizing… — Carl Panzram Copy Share Image
Crimes are more effectually prevented by the certainty than the severity of punishment — Cesare Beccaria Copy Share Image
The purpose of punishment is to improve those who do the punishing--that is the final recourse of those who support punishment. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The idea that the sole aim of punishment is to prevent crime is obviously grounded upon the theory that crime can be prevented, which… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
It's of more importance to community that innocence should be protected than it is that guilt should be punished — John Adams Copy Share Image
justice is not only the way we punish those who do wrong. It is also the way we try to save them. — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
Crimes are more effectually prevented by the certainty than the severity of punishment — Cesare Beccaria Copy Share Image
The laws that forbid the carrying of arms... serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with… — Cesare Beccaria Copy Share Image
“ If every individual be bound to society, society is equally bound to him, by a contract which from its nature equally binds both parties.… — Cesare Beccaria Copy Share Image
The laws that forbid the carrying of arms...disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. Can it be supposed that… — Cesare Beccaria Copy Share Image
The punishment of death is the war of a nation against a citizen whose destruction it judges to be necessary or useful. — Cesare Beccaria Copy Share Image
“ Every punishment which does not arise from absolute necessity, says the great Montesquieu, is tyrannical. A proposition which may be made more general thus:… — Cesare Beccaria Copy Share Image
The fault no child ever loses is the one he was most punished for. — Cesare Beccaria Copy Share Image
For a punishment to be just it should consist of only such gradations of intensity as suffice to deter men from committing crimes. — Cesare Beccaria Copy Share Image
Laws against the possession of weapons only disarm those who have no intention of committing a crime. — Cesare Beccaria Copy Share Image
“False is the idea of utility that sacrifices a thousand real advantages for one imaginary or trifling inconvenience; that would take fire from men… — Cesare Beccaria Copy Share Image
“When a fixed code of laws, which must be observed to the letter, leaves no further care to the judge than to examine the… — Cesare Beccaria Copy Share Image
“Crime and punishment can be summed up in two classifications: there are bad people and there are people who get into bad situations. The… — Johnnie Dent Jr Copy Share Image
With 'Pretty Girls,' I saw the opportunity to talk not just about crime but what crime leaves behind. — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
“The jailers, the Court, everyone in that building – it wasn’t about justice; it was about obedience and intimidation…about maintaining order. Fear accomplished that… — Jay Allan Copy Share Image
Taking notes while watching Forensic Files and Snapped. I don't want to make the same mistakes the criminals do! ;) — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, powerlines, and right-angled… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Nations sometimes flourish by denying the crimes that brought them into being. Only when the original invasion, occupation, extermination or usurpation has been safely… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
“a crime to fell a tree and light it on fire, where coals of hardened shit warmed and stunk up homes,” — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
A great read; an exciting, frightening account of organized crime today. But like all important works of nonfiction, it goes further… This book is… — Le Ly Hayslip Copy Share Image
If it comes to a question of law, the charges they brought against me - the Espionage Act - is called the quintessential political… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
