Cases Quote by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Frequent punishments are always a sign of weakness or laziness on the part of a government.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The punishment of criminals should be of use; when a man is hanged he is good for nothing

— Voltaire

Let the punishments of criminals be useful. A hanged man is good for nothing; a man condemned to public works still serves the country,…

— Voltaire

It is a most just punishment, that man should lose that freedom, which man could not use, yet had power to keep, if he…

— Francis Quarles

Experience shows that the frequent use of severe punishment has never rendered a people better. The death of a criminal is a less effective…

— Catherine the Great

He needs to be punished because the law hasn't punished him. He's never done any hard time.

— David Haye

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

There is no sort of wrong deed of which a man can bear the punishment alone; you can't isolate yourself and say that the…

— George Eliot

Society takes upon itself the right to inflict appalling punishment on the individual, but it also has the supreme vice of shallowness, and fails…

— Oscar Wilde

Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt…

— Thomas Szasz

Only the man who has enough good in him to feel the justice of the penalty can be punished.

— William Ernest Hocking

The law which attempts a man's life [capital punishment] is impractical, unjust, inadmissible. It has never repressed crime--for a second crime is every day…

— Marquis de Sade