Crime Quote by George Bernard Shaw

the prison system, inherently unjust and inhumane, is the ultimate expression of injustice and inhumanity in the society at large.

— Jessica Mitford

Have not prisons - which kill all will and force of character in man, which enclose within their walls more vices than are met…

— Peter Kropotkin

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

— Simone Weil

“The fantastical idea of virtue and the public good being a sufficient security to the state against the commission of crimes...was never mine. It…

— Thomas Jefferson

All of our punishment institutions, including jails, laws, church confessionals, and so forth, are systems of illusion. The order of the universe, the infinite…

— Michio Kushi

“Guidance rather than deterrence is the answer to crime. It is the only course that promises permanence. Prison walls must not be permitted to…

— Lewis E. Lawes

The practice of arbitrary imprisonments have been, in all ages, the favorite and most formidable instruments of tyranny.

— Alexander Hamilton

The prison, above all others, should be the most human of institutions.

— Eugene V. Debs

A reform in the system of criminal jurisprudence, by which the death penalty shall no longer be inflicted . . . and by which…

— Victoria Woodhull

“I use the term "punishment bureaucracy" instead of "criminal justice system" because it is a more accurate and less deceptive way to describe the…

— Alec Karakatsanis

“Under a goverment which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison”

— Henry David Thoreau

Any legitimate system of criminal justice must first concern itself with justice. If just punishments also deter, rehabilitate, or protect, all the better.

— Michael J. Knowles