Crime Quote by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

In any case, frequent punishments are a sign of weakness or slackness in the government. There is no man so bad that he cannot…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Excessive rewards are a sign of desperation. Excessive punishments are a sign of exhaustion.”

— Sun Tzu

Sociologists have frequently observed that governments use punishment primarily as a tool of social control, and thus the extent or severity of punishment is…

— Michelle Alexander

To punish is the most difficult thing there is. A society such as ours needs to question every aspect of punishment as it is…

— Michel Foucault

Attempts to enforce by legal sanctions, acts obnoxious to so great a proportion of Citizens, tend to enervate the laws in general, and to…

— James Madison

Some things come with their own punishments.

— Arundhati Roy

What is the point in punishing a country?

— Marine Le Pen

In all well-attempered governments there is nothing which should be more jealously maintained than the spirit of obedience to law, more especially in small…

— Aristotle

Punishment is lame, but it comes.

— George Herbert

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

— William Gilmore Simms

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.

— Plato

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

— Michel Foucault