Little minds Quote by Henri Rousseau

Penalties serve to deter those who are not inclined to commit any crimes.

— Karl Kraus

a loss of sensibility follows a loss of innocence, at once a penalty and a compensation.

— Dodie Smith

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

— Michel Foucault

Whenever the offence inspires less horror than the punishment, the rigour of penal law is obliged to give way to the common feelings of…

— Edward Gibbon

To make punishments efficacious, two things are necessary. They must never be disproportioned to the offence, and they must be certain.

— William Gilmore Simms

Penalty is different than punishment, because it offers something with which to regain honor.

— Vanna Bonta

What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.

— Horace

Except when physically restrained, a person is least free or dignified when he is under threat of punishment, and unfortunately most people often are.

— B. F. Skinner

That's the penalty we have to pay for our acts of foolishness - someone else always suffers for them.

— Alfred Sutro

Any penalty - I've told you a hundred times - can be eliminated by concentration or good judgment.

— Bill Parcells

Punishments of unreasonable severity, especially where indiscriminately afflicted, have less effect in preventing crimes, and amending the manners of a people, than such as…

— William Blackstone

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