Care Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Care must be taken that the punishment does not exceed the offence.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

For a punishment to be just it should consist of only such gradations of intensity as suffice to deter men from committing crimes.

— Cesare Beccaria

It is better that a guilty man should not be brought to trial than that he should be acquitted.

— Livy

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

I believe that no one should be executed, guilty or innocent. There are appropriate sanctions that protect society and punish wrongdoers without forcing us…

— Mike Farrell

But the guilty person is only one of the targets of punishment. For punishment is directed above all at others, at all the potentially…

— Michel Foucault

This is the part of a great man, after he has maturely weighed all circumstances, to punish the guilty, to spare the many, and…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Trials rarely found men not guilty. The general view was that if a man were innocent he would not have got into trouble in…

— Ken Follett

Indictments obtained in the absence of sufficient proof under the law do not stand up and are not fundamentally fair to anyone.

— Daniel Cameron

Let the punishment be proportionate to the offense.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

A jury of my countrymen, it is true, have found me guilty of the crime of which I stood indicted. For this I entertain…

— Thomas Francis Meagher

Rather let the crime of the guilty go unpunished than condemn the innocent.

— Justinian I