Crime Quote by Horace Mann

The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it can never 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

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

— Roy Hattersley

Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Physical punishment cleanses away evil; such discipline purifies the heart.”

— Al Fike

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

It is a duty not only to punish, but to prevent all manner of evil.

— Anonymous

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

Punishment is a vital need of the human soul.

— Simone Weil

Its guilt therefore in these cases, is not to be measure by its effects on the happiness of mankind; nor is it to be…

— William Wilberforce

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