Crime Quote by Clarence Darrow

Punishment as punishment is not admissible unless the offender has had the freewill to select his course.

— Clarence Darrow

The purpose of the law is not to prevent a future offense, but to punish the one actually committed.

— Ayn Rand

A person who has been punished is not thereby simply less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to…

— Anonymous

A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.

— B. F. Skinner

Punishment is but legalized crime. In a society built on prevention, rather than retaliation, there would be very little crime. The few exceptions will…

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

It is not the real punishment. The only effectual one, the only deterrent and softening one, lies in the recognition of sin by conscience.

— Anonymous

“Where the penal provision, though established, is not conveyed to the notice of the person on whom it seems intended that it should operate.…

— Jeremy Bentham

Law cannot persuade where it cannot punish

— Thomas Fuller

“Imprisonment is the form of punishment which may detrimentally affect not only the offender but also his family and his employment and because of…

— P.W. Thirion

We are here to say that if you are evil enough to threaten the life of a child, if you are evil enough to…

— Jose Peralta

There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.

— Anonymous

The penalty may be removed, the crime is eternal.

— Ovid