Chiefs Quote by W. E. B. Du Bois

The idea that the sole aim of punishment is to prevent crime is obviously grounded upon the theory that crime can be prevented, which…

— H. L. Mencken

Crime is not the problem of the victim, the victim didn't create the crime.

— Gloria Steinem

Crimes were committed to punish crimes, and crimes were committed to prevent crimes. The world has been filled with prisons and dungeons, with chains…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Crime generally punishes itself.

— Oliver Goldsmith

“The hood made me realize that crime succeeds because crime does the one thing the government doesn’t do: crime cares. Crime is grassroots. Crime…

— Trevor Noah

A community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurence of crime.

— Oscar Wilde

It is better to prevent crimes than to punish them.

— Cesare Beccaria

There's a simple way to solve the crime problem: obey the law; punish those who do not.

— Rush Limbaugh

it is the certainty of being punished and not the horrifying spectacle of public punishment that must discourage crime

— Michel Foucault

In this country, the only people who get punished for crime are the victims.

— Joe Don Baker

While crime is punished it yet increases.

— Seneca the Younger

“As one reads history, not in the expurgated editions written for schoolboys and passmen, but in the original authorities of each time, one is…

— Oscar Wilde