Crime Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces concentration, it sharpens the consciousness of alienation, it strengthens the power of resistance.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The reformative effect of punishment is a belief that dies hard, chiefly I think, because it is so satisfying to our sadistic impulses.

— Bertrand Russell

“Regression effects teach us specious lessons about the relative effectiveness of reward and punishment.”

— Thomas Gilovich

A variety in punishment is of utility, as well as a proportion.

— George Washington

“Regression effects, in other words, serve to “punish the administration of reward, and to reward the administration of punishment.”21”

— Thomas Gilovich

Discipline works from the inside out, and punishment tries to work from the outside in.

— Danny Silk

Punishment damages goodwill and self-esteem, and shifts our attention from the intrinsic value of an action to external consequences.

— Marshall Rose

“We should also remember that punishment and inequality are intimately linked—that the causality runs in both directions. Disparities in punishment reflect socioeconomic inequalities, but…

— David Cay Johnston

“Most of us have been deeply shaped by the false notion that in order for people to behave better they need to feel worse…

— Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Experience shows that the frequent use of severe punishment has never rendered a people better. The death of a criminal is a less effective…

— Catherine the Great

Punishment and reward proceed from basically the same psychological model, one that conceives of motivation as nothing more than the manipulation of behavior.

— Alfie Kohn

Punishment is a vital need of the human soul.

— Simone Weil