Crime Quote by George Ohsawa

“Must crimes be punish'd but by other crimes, and greater criminals?”

— George Gordon Byron

“An avidity to punish is always dangerous to liberty. It leads men to stretch, to misinterpret, and to misapply even the best of laws.…

— Thomas Paine

“Don't you believe that the punishment should fit the crime? Isn't that what justice is? Letely, though, I wonder if we've gotten more into…

— Whoopi Goldberg

“The entire fabric of civilization is held together by this one principle: we let the law determine justice, not an individual.”

— Victor Methos

“The greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules, but by people following the rules.”

— Anonymous

“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

“Justice is the reason we have law, and law is man’s feeble attempt to teach decency to others.”

— Joy Ratcliff Cagle

“Punishment creates crime.”

— Silvia Hartmann

“In violation of any given law, first you must understand it, and then keep it.”

— Rita A. Barnes

“In short, we do not get good laws to restrain bad people. We get good people to restrain bad laws.”

— G.K. Chesterton

“The moderns say we must not punish heretics. My only doubt is whether we have the right to punish anybody else.”

— G.K. Chesterton

“Justice cannot just be something that one part of society inflicts on the other.”

— Cathy O'Neil