Ancient Quote by Clarence Darrow

Dealing with crime using archaic methods has become impossible. So, it's imperative that we change the ways to counter them.

— Nana Patekar

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

When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of…

— C.P. Snow

Crimes were committed to punish crimes, and crimes were committed to prevent crimes. The world has been filled with prisons and dungeons, with chains…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

A crime persevered in a thousand centuries ceases to be a crime, and becomes a virtue. This is the law of custom, and custom…

— Mark Twain

“As one reads history, not in the expurgated editions written for schoolboys and passmen, but in the original authorities of each time, one is…

— Oscar Wilde

Human nature will not change. In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak and as…

— Abraham Lincoln

We are easily shocked by crimes which appear at once in their full magnitude, but the gradual growth of our own wickedness, endeared by…

— Samuel Johnson

For all the cruelty and hardship of our world, we are not mere prisoners of fate. Our actions matter, and can bend history in…

— Barack Obama

Formerly we suffered from crimes; now we suffer from laws.

— Tacitus

“If we punished only the crimes we could prove, we would not enjoy the pleasure of dragging our fellow human beings to the scaffold…

— Marquis de Sade

There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.

— Simone Weil