Contrary Quote by Hannah Arendt

No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes.

— Hannah Arendt

The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.

— Ovid

Crime generally punishes itself.

— Oliver Goldsmith

While crime is punished it yet increases.

— Seneca the Younger

I have heard that it was the perfection of the administration of criminal justice to take care that the punishment should come to few…

— Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon

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

“Punishment creates crime.”

— Silvia Hartmann

Crimes are more effectually prevented by the certainty than the severity of punishment

— Cesare Beccaria

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

— Michel Foucault

Punishment is but legalized crime. In a society built on prevention, rather than retaliation, there would be very little crime. The few exceptions will…

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

If we believe in our current penal process, then the penalties imposed by judges and juries should be the only sanctions for one's crime,…

— Anonymous

If you remove the fear of criminal punishment for the nation's political and financial elites - as we have done - what possible constraint…

— Glenn Greenwald