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

“In the ideal state, laws are few and simple. In the corrupt state, they are many and confused.”

— J.Adam Snyder

“For these new states this curse bears the germs of a deadly sickness. For the nation-state cannot exist once its principle of equality before…

— Hannah Arendt

“Yet if states were destroyed, local institutions corrupted, and economic incentives directed towards murder, few of us would behave well.”

— Timothy Snyder

“Finally, when the State close to ruin subsists only on an illusory and vain form, when the social bond is broken in all hearts,…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“There is not the slightest hope that the authorities who, for a number of years, have permitted the violation of the law, will be…

— Various

“The State is not the hope of the world; it is an institution grounded in the threat of violence, whether via capital punishments or…

— Douglas Wilson

“Under a goverment which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison”

— Henry David Thoreau

“Must crimes be punish'd but by other crimes, and greater criminals?”

— George Gordon Byron

“We know that laws ought to be obeyed only if they come out of people's sense of justice, not because the state needs them…

— Aleksandar Hemon

“States do not grapple with decarceration strategies & explore alternatives bc of an ethical recognition of the continuing harms of prisons or an understanding…

— Erica R. Meiners

“We hold there is no worse enemy to a state than he who keeps the law in his own hands.”

— Edith Hamilton