Arbitrary Quote by Michio Kushi

Like other human institutions, courts and juries are not perfect. One cannot have a system of criminal punishment without accepting the possibility that someone…

— Antonin Scalia

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

To punish the individual for the sins of the system makes no sense. We're responsible for changing it, yes. But we can't actually invent…

— Gloria Steinem

Punishment may make us obey the orders we are given, but at best it will only teach an obedience to authority, not a self-control…

— Bruno Bettelheim

If we believe in our current penal process, then the penalties imposed by judges and juries should be the only sanctions for one's crime,…

— Anonymous

Punishment is justice for the unjust.

— Saint Augustine

the prison system, inherently unjust and inhumane, is the ultimate expression of injustice and inhumanity in the society at large.

— Jessica Mitford

Our system is not one of justice, but of law

— Edna Buchanan

Justice demands integrity. It’s to have a moral universe — not only know what is right or wrong but to put things in perspective,…

— Bell Hooks

Justice is the very last thing of all wherewith the universe concerns itself. It is equilibrium that absorbs its attention.

— Maurice Maeterlinck

Of the three official objects of our prison system: vengeance, deterrence, and reformation of the criminal, only one is achieved; and that is the…

— George Bernard Shaw

justice is not only the way we punish those who do wrong. It is also the way we try to save them.

— Gregory David Roberts