Achieve Quote by W. S. Gilbert

“The fantastical idea of virtue and the public good being a sufficient security to the state against the commission of crimes...was never mine. It…

— Thomas Jefferson

Let the punishment fit the crime.

— Anonymous

“If we punished only the crimes we could prove, we would not enjoy the pleasure of dragging our fellow human beings to the scaffold…

— Marquis de Sade

The justice of our cause must be reflected in the manner in which we rectify the crimes of the past.

— Jalal Talabani

One must live with all, e'en if life be hell: Crime makes shame, not monetary stricture

— Multatuli

Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear.

— Karl Kraus

Of the three official objects of our prison system: vengeance, deterrence, and reformation of the criminal, only one is achieved; and that is the…

— George Bernard Shaw

The merciful precepts of Christ will at last suffuse the Code and it will glow with their radiance. Crime will be considered an illness…

— Victor Hugo

“Crime begins with God. It will end with man, when he finds God again. Crime is everywhere, in all the fibres and roots of…

— Henry Miller

“In seeking to severely penalize criminals society by putting the criminals away behind safe walls actually provide them with the means of greater strength…

— Jack Kerouac

“Crime is a rigid, unbending master, against whom no one can be strong except by total rebellion”

— Alessandro Manzoni

'Til the infallibility of human judgements shall have been proved to me, I shall demand the abolition of the penalty of death.

— Marquis de Sade