Good Quote by Robert Green Ingersoll

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

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

The reformative effect of punishment is a belief that dies hard, chiefly I think, because it is so satisfying to our sadistic impulses.

— Bertrand Russell

There is no sort of wrong deed of which a man can bear the punishment alone; you can't isolate yourself and say that the…

— George Eliot

“I allow that it is easier to touch the body of a saint, or to be magnetised, than to restrain our appetites or govern…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

It serves no purpose to man if there is no room for repentance, and he who is tormented can never grow better...let this punishment…

— Thomas Burnet

Society takes upon itself the right to inflict appalling punishment on the individual, but it also has the supreme vice of shallowness, and fails…

— Oscar Wilde

It is necessary men should be tried and purged and purified and made perfect through suffering.

— John Taylor

If one wanted to crush and destroy a man entirely, to mete out to him the most terrible punishment, all one would have to…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Now, to a single-minded man, who is either brave enough or reckless enough to surrender himself wholly to one idea, and look neither right…

— James Anthony Froude

“The cruel man is of misanthropic temperament, and is a man of moods, oscillating from quiet brooding to sudden explosions. If a man like…

— Frederick the Great

“Walter made me understand why we have to reform a system of criminal justice that continues to treat people better if they are rich…

— Bryan Stevenson