Crime Quote by 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

For a punishment to be just it should consist of only such gradations of intensity as suffice to deter men from committing crimes.

— Cesare Beccaria

To punish is the most difficult thing there is. A society such as ours needs to question every aspect of punishment as it is…

— Michel Foucault

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

— Werner Herzog

The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.

— Ovid

I really believe our society has this propensity to punish.

— Susan Rosenberg

Punishment can do a lot for criminals, and send a message to the rest of society.

— Bill Bennett

The bottom line is: If any government has a rule that would legally allow it to punish people for things that don't deserve punishment,…

— Kat Timpf

Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt…

— Thomas Szasz

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

— Pasquier Quesnel

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

No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific…

— Hannah Arendt