Education Quote by Edsger Dijkstra

Crime is a product of a distorted mind.

— Kiran Bedi

The test of every religious, political, or educational system, is the man which it forms. If a system injures the intelligence it is bad.…

— Henri Frederic Amiel

Whenever the offence inspires less horror than the punishment, the rigour of penal law is obliged to give way to the common feelings of…

— Edward Gibbon

“It may sound cruel...but...what makes a criminal is a disposition toward cruelty, a laziness and impatience that lead to taking from others, and cynicism…

— Stanley Crouch

Punishment of any crime should be dangerous when someone thinked about crime his soul is vibrating remains punishment.

— Mak_786

When you teach your students that it's "economically rational" to commit crimes where the fines for misconduct are lower than the expected return on…

— Cory Doctorow

“For something to be a crime there must be both an actus reus and mens rea — that is, a criminal act accompanied by…

— Alan Dershowitz

What borders on the criminal is the poor teaching and neglect of those subjects that deal with the history of ideas and ideals, a…

— John Mortimer Smith

“In court, the thing we punish is the criminal intention. -the mens rea, the guilty mind. There is an ancient rule: actus non facit…

— William Landay

“No form of punishment will be inflicted,”

— Suzanne Collins

“Suffering to the criminal can never be justified by the notion of vindictive punishment. If education combined with kindness is equally effective, it is…

— Bertrand Russell

it is the certainty of being punished and not the horrifying spectacle of public punishment that must discourage crime

— Michel Foucault