Crime Quote by Horace Mann

The object of punishment is, prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.

— Horace Mann

The desire to punish is a desire that emanates from a place of equality and justice. The lesson I feel that we have to…

— Chris Hayes

If punishment reaches not the mind and makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender.

— John Locke

Good thoughts and actions can never produce bad results; bad thoughts and actions can never produce good results … We understand this law in…

— James Allen

Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

One of the problems of our society is that we spend too much time thinking about punishment and not enough about prevention.

— Roy Hattersley

Human law cannot punish or forbid all evil, since while doing away with evils it would do away with many good things, which would…

— Saint Augustine

Mistrust those in whom the urge to punish is strong.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

There is no thing we cannot overcome Say not thy evil instinct is inherited, Or that some trait inborn makes thy whole life forlorn,…

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Before crime is committed conscience must be corrupted, and every bad man who succeeds in reaching a high point of wickedness begins with this.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

The idea that the sole aim of punishment is to prevent crime is obviously grounded upon the theory that crime can be prevented, which…

— H. L. Mencken

A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.

— B. F. Skinner