Crime Quote by Fyodor Dostoevsky

To crush, to annihilate a man utterly, to inflict on him the most terrible of punishments so that the most ferocious murderer would shudder…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

If it were considered desirable to destroy a human being, the only thing necessary would be to give his work a character of uselessness

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

For a punishment to be just it should consist of only such gradations of intensity as suffice to deter men from committing crimes.

— Cesare Beccaria

In any case, frequent punishments are a sign of weakness or slackness in the government. There is no man so bad that he cannot…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

No more fiendish punishment could be devised, were such a thing physically possible, than that one should be turned loose in society and remain…

— William James

To destroy a man is difficult, almost as difficult as to create one: it has not been easy, nor quick, but you Germans have…

— Primo Levi

All the punishment in the world will not reform a man, unless he knows that he who inflicts it upon him does it for…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

“The cruel man is of misanthropic temperament, and is a man of moods, oscillating from quiet brooding to sudden explosions. If a man like…

— Frederick the Great

“Oh, yes, there are ways in which men can be destroyed short of murder. We can destroy a man's reputation, we can shake somebody…

— D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

To punish a man because we infer from the nature of some doctrine which he holds, or from the conduct of other persons who…

— Anonymous

The object of punishment is to... lift the man up; to stamp out his bad nature and wicked disposition.

— Isaac Parker

One of the most horrible, yet most important, discoveries of our age has been that, if you really wish to destroy a person and…

— W. H. Auden