Crime Quote by Walter Savage Landor

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

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

— Confucius

All in all, punishment hardens and renders people more insensible; it concentrates; it increases the feeling of estrangement; it strengthens the power of resistance.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The public has more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it.

— Cato the Elder

Whenever the offence inspires less horror than the punishment, the rigour of penal law is obliged to give way to the common feelings of…

— Edward Gibbon

“One reason punishment doesn't usually work is that it does not coincide with the undesirable behavior; it occurs afterward, and sometimes, as in courts…

— Karen Pryor

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The method of collective punishment so far has proved effective.

— Moshe Dayan

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

— Michel Foucault

I really believe our society has this propensity to punish.

— Susan Rosenberg

The punishment itself is something I respectfully disagree with, but for thousands and thousands of years it was practiced everywhere.

— Werner Herzog