Crime Quote by John Ruskin

Punishment follows close on crime.

— Horace

Penalties serve to deter those who are not inclined to commit any crimes.

— Karl Kraus

Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.

— Elizabeth Fry

The method of collective punishment so far has proved effective.

— Moshe Dayan

It is better to prevent crimes than to punish them.

— Cesare Beccaria

“In order for punishment not to be, in every instance, an act of violence of one or many against a private citizen, it must…

— Steven Briggs

The main goal in any criminal statute is to produce what's best for the victim. And sometimes, a mandatory minimum doesn't accomplish that.

— Paul Martin

Any legitimate system of criminal justice must first concern itself with justice. If just punishments also deter, rehabilitate, or protect, all the better.

— Michael J. Knowles

The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

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

The purpose of punishment is to improve those who do the punishing--that is the final recourse of those who support punishment.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The purpose of the law is not to prevent a future offense, but to punish the one actually committed.

— Ayn Rand