Top 34 Quotes About Criminal Punishment
#1. If you remove the fear of criminal punishment for the nation's political and financial elites - as we have done - what possible constraint on their behavior does anyone think will remain?
Glenn Greenwald
#2. Despite all the gains for democracy in the world, in many countries anyone who wants to publish truths unwelcome to the government risks suppression and criminal punishment.
Anthony Lewis
#3. Murder is a horror, but an often necessary horror, never criminal, which it is essential to tolerate in a republican State. Is it or is it not a crime? If it is not, why make laws for its punishment? And if it is, by what barbarous logic do you, to punish it, duplicate it by another crime?
Marquis De Sade
#4. It was then that the ecstasy and the dream began, in which emotion was the matter of the universe, and matter but an adventitious intrusion likely to hinder you from spinning where you wanted to spin.
Thomas Hardy
#5. The punishment of a criminal is an example to the rabble; but every decent man is concerned if an innocent person is condemned.
Jean De La Bruyere
#6. I lost my balance, making my body unstable and falling on top of my opponent. At that moment I hit my face against the player leaving a small bruise on my cheek and a strong pain in my teeth.
Luis Suarez
#7. A world in which elves exist and magic works offers greater opportunities to digress and explore.
Terry Brooks
#8. There are two classes of people who hide themselves: the criminal who flees punishment, and the saint who through humility wishes to remain unknown.
Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange
#9. Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.
Elizabeth Fry
#10. He thinks of making his fortune. We all know that money sticks to yours hands.
No, It passes through them, alas.
Hilary Mantel
#11. I have heard that it was the perfection of the administration of criminal justice to take care that the punishment should come to few and the example to many.
Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon
#12. You don't usually get treated unfairly. You usually get what you deserve.
Dale Murphy
#13. The picture should be fecund. It must bring a world to birth.
Joan Miro
#14. Capital punishment, like the rest of the criminal justice system, is a government program, so skepticism is in order.
George Will
#15. People who are winning at working don't ignore the problems they encounter.
Nan S. Russell
#16. For every criminal case, the judge must construct a perfect syllogism: the major premise must be the general law; the minor premise, whether or not the action in question is in compliance with the law; and the conclusion, acquittal or punishment.
Cesare Beccaria
#17. The International Olympic Committee was worried people would walk into a one-hundred-seat theater on the corner of Clark and Addison and wonder why no one was jumping over hurdles. The
Amy Poehler
#18. Since the state must necessarily provide subsistence for the criminal poor while undergoing punishment, not to do the same for the poor who have not offended is to give a premium on crime.
John Stuart Mill
#19. I am told that the proximity of punishment arouses real repentance in the criminal and sometimes awakens a feeling of genuine remorse in the most hardened heart; I am told this is due to fear.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#20. Punishment. - A strange thing, our punishment! It does not cleanse the criminal, it is no atonement; on the contrary, it pollutes worse than the crime does. The
Friedrich Nietzsche
#21. There are a lot of messages that need to be sent to the criminal who is out there dealing in this on the streets of the United States. We need to send the message of swiftness and certain punishment.
Bill McCollum
#23. Criminal law has to do with relations between the misbehaving individual and his government ... Criminal law establishes rules of conduct; their breach, if prosecuted and conviction follows, results in punishment.
Lawrence M. Friedman
#24. Let someone who was not from among the convicts try reproaching a prisoner for his crime and abusing him (though it's not in the Russian spirit to reproach a criminal)
there would be no end of cursing.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#25. Attention must be given to the penal consequences of violations of the right to peace, including the punishment by domestic courts or in due time by the International Criminal Court of those who have engaged in aggression and propaganda for war.
Alfred-Maurice De Zayas
#26. We have carried out the attempted premeditated murder of an entire nation. We were caught in that criminal act and have been obstructed. Now we have to suffer the punishment ... In the Balkan Wars, Serbia not only doubled its territory, but also its external enemies.
Dimitrije Tucovic
#27. This new idea of cure instead of punishment, so humane in seeming, had in fact deprived the criminal of all rights and by taking away the name Punishment made the thing infinite.
C.S. Lewis
#28. Every transgression and disobedience receives a just recompense of reward, except with those who truly love themselves.
Auliq Ice
#29. For years I supported capital punishment, but I have come to believe that our criminal justice system is incapable of adequately distinguishing between the innocent and guilty. It is reprehensible and immoral to gamble with life and death.
James Frey
#30. The criminal left belongs not in a dormitory, but in a penitentiary.
Spiro T. Agnew
#31. We teach more by what we are than by what we teach.
Will Durant
#32. Mercy is not what every criminal is entitled to. What he is entitled to is justice.
Lord Hailsham
#33. There's only one reason to be crucified under the Roman Empire, and that is for treason or sedition. Crucifixion, we have to understand, was not actually a form of capital punishment for Rome. In fact, it was often the case that the criminal would be killed first and then crucified.
Reza Aslan
#34. The nature of the criminal justice system has changed. It is no longer primarily concerned with the prevention and punishment of crime, but rather with the management and control of the dispossessed.
Michelle Alexander
