Crime Quote by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“In a well governed state, there are few punishments, not because there are many pardons, but because criminals are rare; it is when a…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The exceptions of the scrupulous put one in mind of some general pardons where everything is forgiven except crimes.

— Henry Fielding

We are all serving a life sentence, and good behavior is our only hope for a pardon.

— Douglas Horton

Most criminals are not born; they are made… What the State really punishes in a criminal is often its own neglect, its own failure…

— William Randolph Hearst

The Constitution sets out no standards for granting pardons. They require no consent from Congress, and courts can't second-guess them.

— George T. Conway III

If you do not want the State to act like a criminal, you must disarm it as you would a criminal; you must keep…

— Albert J. Nock

Originally, in fact, the power to pardon was used precisely for economic and political ends. Legal historians have noted that in England, kings used…

— Asha Rangappa

In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.

— Tacitus

The wise man will not pardon any crime that ought to be punished, but he will accomplish, in a nobler way, all that is…

— Seneca the Younger

Because prison sentences in America tend to be long, de-incarceration lags falling crime rates by a fair amount, but eventually it does catch up.

— Kevin Drum

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