Conscience Quote by Voltaire Download Open image “The more estimable the offender, the greater the torment.” — Voltaire ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5.0 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Conscience Greater Offenders Suffering Torment
If punishment reaches not the mind and makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender. — John Locke Copy Share Image
Crimes are more effectually prevented by the certainty than the severity of punishment — Cesare Beccaria Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Punishments of unreasonable severity, especially where indiscriminately afflicted, have less effect in preventing crimes, and amending the manners of a people, than such as… — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
“IDENTIFICATION When victimization takes place the victim often identifies with the persecutor. By so doing the victim no longer feels the helplessness and the… — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
it is the certainty of being punished and not the horrifying spectacle of public punishment that must discourage crime — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
To destroy an offender cannot benefit society so much as to redeem him. — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
There is no satisfaction in vengeance unless the offender has time to realize who it is that strikes him, and why retribution has come… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“What other agents then are there, which, at the same time that they are under the influence of man's direction, are susceptible of happiness?… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
“until victims know deep in their souls that it is a choice to be an abuser, they will continue to entertain pity for toxic… — Shannon Thomas Copy Share Image
In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Fanaticism, to which men are so much inclined, has always served not only to render them more brutalized but more wicked. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part, the rest are lost in the multitude. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Meslier was the most singular phenomenon ever seen among all the meteors fatal to the Christian religion. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror." "Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them — Voltaire Copy Share Image
When his highness sends a ship to Egypt, does he trouble his head whether the mice on board are at their ease or not? — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Self-respect and a clear conscience are powerful components of integrity and are the basis for enriching your relationships with others. — Denis Waitley Copy Share Image
My conscience is really active. So I feel bad about spending excess amount of money on things. — Syd Copy Share Image
Let us be thankful for health and competence, and, above all, for a quiet conscience. — Izaak Walton Copy Share Image
Making money doesn't oblige people to forfeit their honor or their conscience. — Guy de Rothschild Copy Share Image
The God in whose hands are all our days and ways, did cast into my hand one day a book of Martin Luthers; it… — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
Never can true courage dwell with them, Who, playing tricks with conscience, dare not look At their own vices. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
In presenting a mathematical argument the great thing is to give the educated reader the chance to catch on at once to the momentary… — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
I've worked with people who are much further to the left than I am and much further to the right than I am. At… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
If all the world hated you and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved of you and absolved you from guilt, you would… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
[D]on't grow old. With age comes caution, which is another name for cowardice.... Whatever else you do in life, don't cultivate a conscience. Without… — Hesketh Pearson Copy Share Image
It seems that the whole world is beginning to decay, and that its putrefaction has chosen to spread outward from here, from the land… — Yasmina Khadra Copy Share Image
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