(644 quotes found)
“Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment.”
Sir Robert Baden-Powell
“One is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalized by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime.”
Oscar Wilde
“How vainly shall we endeavor to repress crime by our barbarous punishment of the poorer class of criminals so long as children are reared in the brutalizing influences of poverty, so long as the bite of want drives men to crime.”
Henry George
“He who is in evil, is also in the punishment of evil.”
Emanuel Swedenborg
“Men simply copied the realities of their hearts when they built prisons”
Richard Wright
“A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.”
Ernest Hemingway
“No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been.”
Hannah Arendt
“Christianity, with its doctrine of humility, of forgiveness, of love, is incompatible with the state, with its haughtiness, its violence, its punishment, its wars”
Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
“Marijuana is self-punishing. It makes you acutely sensitive, and in this world, what worse punishment could there be?”
P. J. O'Rourke
“Poverty is like punishment for a crime you didn't commit.”
Eli Khamarov
