Failure Quote by Richard Whately

Necessity, that great refuge and excuse for human frailty, breaks through all law; and he is not to be accounted in fault whose crime…

— Blaise Pascal

An avidity to punish is always dangerous to liberty. It leads men to stretch, to misinterpret, and to misapply even the best of laws.

— Thomas Paine

“Sec. 10. Besides the crime which consists in violating the law, and varying from the right rule of reason, whereby a man so far…

— John Locke

The principle inherent in the clause that prohibits pointless infliction of excessive punishment when less severe punishment can adequately achieve the same purposes invalidates…

— Anonymous

Only the man who has enough good in him to feel the justice of the penalty can be punished; the others can only be…

— William Ernest Hocking

a loss of sensibility follows a loss of innocence, at once a penalty and a compensation.

— Dodie Smith

The law is meant to work for justice. But people who know themselves know that, at some point, justice had better be mitigated by…

— Wendell Berry

“Where the penal provision, though established, is not conveyed to the notice of the person on whom it seems intended that it should operate.…

— Jeremy Bentham

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

— Karl Kraus

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

— William Ernest Hocking

“A fatal penalty awaits those who always look on the dark side of everything, who are always predicting evil and failure, who see only…

— Orison Swett Marden

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