Becoming Quote by Thomas More

There are dreadful punishments enacted against thieves, but it were much better to make such good provisions by which every man might be put…

— Thomas More

“For great and horrible punishments be appointed for thieves, wheras much rather provision should have been made that there were some means they might…

— Thomas Moore

If the people be led by laws, and uniformity sought to be given them by punishments, they will try to avoid the punishment, but…

— Confucius

Of all crimes the worst Is to steal the glory From the great and brave, Even more accursed Than to rob the grave.

— Robert Frost

Some things come with their own punishments.

— Arundhati Roy

If people want to take their lives and are helped to do so, the punishment is tragic for all concerned.

— Deborah Moggach

Punishment is but legalized crime. In a society built on prevention, rather than retaliation, there would be very little crime. The few exceptions will…

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

If crimes are committed they must be seen as a disease, and punishment as treatment rather than as social vengeance.

— Daniel Guerin

For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those…

— Anonymous

“For it is too extreme and cruel a punishment for theft, and yet not sufficient to restrain men from theft. For simple theft is…

— Thomas More

There is no greater punishment than that of being abandoned to one's self.

— Pasquier Quesnel

No more fiendish punishment could be devised, were such a thing physically possible, than that one should be turned loose in society and remain…

— William James