Crime Quote by Plato

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.

— Plato

A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of…

— Thomas Jefferson

“the swarms of cringers, suckers, doughfaces, lice of politics, planners of sly involutions for their own preferment to city offices or state legislatures or…

— Walt Whitman

The penalty that good men pay for not being interested in politics is to be governed by men worse than themselves.

— Plato

In any case, frequent punishments are a sign of weakness or slackness in the government. There is no man so bad that he cannot…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The penalty good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.

— Plato

“The anarchy that threatens a degrading society is not its punishment, but its remedy.”

— Nicolás Gómez Dávila

Men are not therefore put to death, or punished for that their theft proceedeth from election; but because it was noxious and contrary to…

— Thomas Hobbes

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.

— Henry David Thoreau

The Government is a servant and never should be anything but a servant. The moment the people become adjuncts to government, then the law…

— Henry Ford

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

— Henry David Thoreau

The object of punishment is to... lift the man up; to stamp out his bad nature and wicked disposition.

— Isaac Parker