Cold Quote by Robert Kennedy

One of the problems of our society is that we spend too much time thinking about punishment and not enough about prevention.

— Roy Hattersley

History punishes those that come late to it.

— Mikhail Gorbachev

History does not eliminate grievances. It lays them down like landmines.

— A. N. Wilson

History has always judged silence and complicity harshly in these times of moral consequence.

— Pramila Jayapal

Our history is an inevitable component of our being. One thing only can release us from the grip of our history. That one thing…

— Lewis B. Smedes

When the dust settles and the pages of history are written, it will not be the angry defenders of intolerance who have made the…

— John Shelby Spong

I am convinced that much more emphasis should be placed on history. The purpose of history is to learn how human beings react when…

— Anonymous

History is no more than the portrayal of crimes and misfortunes

— Voltaire

Any punishment that does not correct, that can merely rouse rebellion in whoever has to endure it, is a piece of gratuitous infamy which…

— Marquis de Sade

And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed.

— John Steinbeck

Human history began as an act of disobedience, and it is not unlikely that it will be terminated by an act of obedience. At…

— Erich Fromm

The purpose of punishment is to improve those who do the punishing--that is the final recourse of those who support punishment.

— Friedrich Nietzsche