Civilization Quote by Chester Himes

He thought that in the history of the world it might even be that there was more punishment than crime but he took small…

— Cormac McCarthy

He’d only ever seen a gun once, a smaller one on the hip of that old deputy, a gun he’d always figured was more…

— Hugh Howey

He had put his hand up in class, a declaration of existence, a claim that he knew something. And that was forbidden to him.…

— John Ajvide Lindqvist

To this day I don’t know if he was struggling with the moral implications of gunning down half a dozen civilians, or if he…

— David Wong

“Maybe capital punishment would have deterred the scumbag who shot and killed my father in a botched armed robbery. But instead, he will spend…

— Stephen Edger

The plea of good intentions is not one that can be allowed to have much weight in passing historical judgment upon a man whose…

— Theodore Roosevelt

“An avidity to punish is always dangerous to liberty. It leads men to stretch, to misinterpret, and to misapply even the best of laws.…

— Thomas Paine

“Whatever it was that had drawn him to police work, that had wed him to the job for so many years, it surely wasn't…

— John Verdon

“He had a choice,’ I said. ‘He could have spent his days helping old ladies across the street. He could have volunteered in the…

— Lee Child

The punishment of criminals should be of use; when a man is hanged he is good for nothing

— Voltaire

“The government (or humanity) would not permit capital punishment for one man, but they permitted the murder of millions a little at a time.”

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

For an act may be wrong judged purely by itself, but when the motive that prompted the act is understood, it is construed differently.…

— Elizabeth Keckley