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Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.


Elizabeth Fry

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Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.
EURIPIDES They traded their houses for the big house.
GARY GAMBARDELLA "That's one lock he won't be able to pick for ten years." (referring to a lock-picking house burglar...
GARY GAMBARDELLA Instead of living on a 130 acre farm making millions, he'll be living in an 8 by 8 cell making licen...
GARY GAMBARDELLA It was a great sentence. He will die in prison.
GARY GAMBARDELLA His parole officer hasn't been born yet.
GARY GAMBARDELLA He's bound to have done something,” Nobby repeated.

In this he was echoing the P...
TERRY PRATCHETT Murder is a horror, but an often necessary horror, never criminal, which it is essential to tolerate...
MARQUIS DE SADE The wrong decision in this case could be a fatal one.
GARY GAMBARDELLA Instead of a fiance’ and a wife, Hopkins gets a warden and a parole officer.
GARY GAMBARDELLA Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime.
VITTORIO ALFIERI Taking Mr. Durkin off the steets puts a Grand Canyon-sized hole in the local drug business.
GARY GAMBARDELLA We want to make sure he never sees the light of day.
GARY GAMBARDELLA Many of the Nazis were convicted after the war, but they were not convicted for being 'unreasonable'...
JOSTEIN GAARDER Those who notice, always notify, what they are noticing but we have to check that notification.
ARPIT PUROHIT If one person get shot and killed is called a crime, but if thousands of people get shot and killed ...
"BETA" METANI' MARASHI And then it happened. It was a detail, no more than that. A detail to which you pay no attention at ...
HERMAN KOCH Let someone who was not from among the convicts try reproaching a prisoner for his crime and abusing...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY If he believed in the full complement of evil in himself, he had to believe also in a natural compul...
PATRICIA HIGHSMITH He has suffered a great deal and is still suffering from the idea that he could make a theory, but w...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY It is the crime that causes the shame, and not the punishment.
VIKRANT PARSAI Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred it the coward's revenge for being intimidated.
HOSEA BALLOU Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred it the coward's revenge for being intimidated.
HOSEA BALLOU The punishment did not fit the crime.
BENNY PARSONS Crime? What crime? ... My killing a loathsome, harmful louse, a filthy old moneylender woman ... and...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Look, I'm wrong sometimes. This is one of the times I hope I am.
GARY GAMBARDELLA The only punishment that does justice for the victims, the only punishment that fits the crime, is d...
PATRICK FITZGERALD Moreover, in the system of criminal punishment in the libertarian world, the emphasis would never be...
MURRAY N. ROTHBARD Fear follows crime and is its punishment.
VOLTAIRE Fear follows crime, and is its punishment
VOLTAIRE Fear follows crime, and is its punishment.
VOLTAIRE Poverty is like punishment for a crime you didn't commit.
ELI KHAMAROV Nothing will deter crime but the certainty of punishment.
GRACE POE It's not a matter of punishment or revenge, but closure. We'd like to put an end to this, and learn ...
KARTHI VADIVELU Humanity is the crime, God is the criminal.
KEDAR JOSHI The risk in any country that has oil, such as Russia, is that the high prices will lessen the zeal f...
ALAN LARSON A certain (criminal) is threatening to eliminate me. I am not frightened for myself … but I will me...
FELIX KULOV I am not a criminal while my love is my only crime.
SUBHANKAR ROYCHOWDHURY Punishment creates crime.
SILVIA HARTMANN She needs to go to jail, for her own punishment and to deter others.
GARY GAMBARDELLA He didn't commit these crimes for any of the usual reasons we hear, like needing money to support a ...
GARY GAMBARDELLA I want to be a figure for prison reform. I think that the criminal justice system is rotten.
HENRY LOUIS GATES Society during the last hundred years has been alternately perplexed and encouraged respecting the t...
DOROTHEA DIX Strength and success - they are above morality, above criticism. It seems, then, that it is not what...
JOHN STEINBECK Let the punishment fit the crime
PROVERB The candle-end had long been burning out in the bent candlestick, casting a dim light in this destit...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
JEFFREY FRY Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime. [It., Non nella pena, Nel delit...
VITTORIO ALFIERI Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the pre...
JOHN RUSKIN Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the p...
JOHN RUSKIN This is a longtime employee. The punishment should fit the crime.
MARTIN DRUYAN PEACE IS THE OBJECTIVE TO WAR, BUT THE BLOOD RUNNETH STILL
NATALIE URQUIETA Crime and punishment grow out of one stem.
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KELLY JONES I understand that people feel moral outrage over this. And there is likely to be some criminal punis...
KEVIN MARTINGAYLE Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that, unsuspected, ripens with the ...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON I don't find the punishment fit the crime,
DARCY TUCKER Society is better off with handcuffs around Hopkins’ wrists rather than a stolen ring around his g...
GARY GAMBARDELLA All the punishment in the world will not reform a man, unless he knows that he who inflicts it upon ...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL I think one of the keys to any crime-prevention program that's got to be developed is to focus o...
JANET RENO Punishment follows close on the heels of crime.
UNKNOWN As aparições são, por assim dizer, pedaços ou fragmentos de outros mundos, o seu princípio. É ...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY The best crime stories are always about the crime and its consequences - you know, 'Crime And Pu...
PAUL GREENGRASS A fish might more easily live on the apex of a rock than a man accustomed to crime live a life of vi...
WILLIAM BECKFORD I mean, the ones on trial are not like me in any way: they're a different kind of human being. They ...
HARUKI MURAKAMI Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for p...
HENRY FORD Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only t...
HANNAH ARENDT The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY A curse burns bright on crime.
AESCHYLUS We both agree this type of crime justifies this punishment.
LOUVON HARRIS (…)man holds the remedy in his own hands, and lets everything go its own way, simply through cowar...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Ingratitude is a crime more despicable than revenge, which is only returning evil for evil, while in...
WILLIAM GEORGE JORDAN [Enacting reform] has to be done step by step, ... All these reforms, you can make good arguments fo...
BILL WHALEN Do we identify with a criminal in that we too secretly long to be judged? Popularly, being ‘judgem...
HELEN GARNER Society prepares the crime, the criminal commits it
HENRY THOMAS BUCKLE Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.
HENRY THOMAS BUCKLE Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.
VITTORI ALFIERI The only punishment that does justice for the victims, the only punishment that fits the crime, is d...
PATRICK FITZGERALD The guilty is he who meditates a crime; the punishment is his who lays the plot.
CONTE VITTORIO ALFIERI Remorse is the punishment of crime; repentance, its expiation. The former appertains to a tormented ...
JOSEPH JOUBERT If you are sentenced to torture for a crime, yes, that is a cruel punishment. But the mere fact that...
ANTONIN SCALIA Build the prisons and they will commit the crimes.
BRIAN SPELLMAN One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem on others.
JUVENAL Despite all the gains for democracy in the world, in many countries anyone who wants to publish trut...
ANTHONY LEWIS The Government cannot be concerned any longer with outmoded penelogical theories. Cram criminals tog...
ANTHONY BURGESS Crime labs should be an independent force within the criminal-justice system, not beholden to the pr...
BARRY SCHECK Crime labs should be an independent force within the criminal-justice system, not beholden to the pr...
BARRY SCHECK This criminal deserves the death penalty, the highest punishment, Execution, execution, we demand ex...
ABDUL HAKIM This criminal deserves the death penalty, the highest punishment, Execution, execution, we demand ex...
ABDUL AZIZ HAKIM The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting. [Lat., Poena potest demi, culpa perennis...
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO) Students are already suffering the consequences through probation, fines, criminal record and punish...
KRIS KRANE Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear.
KARL KRAUS I don't find the punishment fit the crime in Moe Mantha's case,
DARCY TUCKER Punishment follows close on crime. [Lat., Culpam poena premit comes.]
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) We've got to make sure that the young, violent, serious juvenile offender is punished, that it&#...
JANET RENO By better characterizing crime trends and patterns to predict where crime was likely to occur, the p...
COLLEEN MCCUE I don't consider myself above the law, I consider myself above the principles.

~ Aarush ...
KIRTIDA GAUTAM I read about a man condemned to death saying or thinking, an hour before his death, that if he had t...
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STEPHANIE PAGE Criminals should be punished, not fed pastries.
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HAYDEN FRY Always fornicate / Between clean sheets and spit on a well-scrubbed floor.
CHRISTOPHER FRY The moon is nothing But a circumambulating aphrodisiac Divinely subsidized to provoke the world Into...
CHRISTOPHER FRY An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.
STEPHEN FRY When I first saw this place, in its bones, it reminded me of Augusta National, what with its (clubho...
DAVID FRY I know your cause is lost, but in the heart / Of all right causes is a cause that cannot lose.
CHRISTOPHER FRY Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing
CHRISTOPHER FRY I'm afraid I was very much the traditionalist. I went down on one knee and dictated a proposal which...
STEPHEN FRY I played in the chapel on Sundays, then moved on to polishing corridors.
STEPHEN FRY The best thing we can do is to make wherever we're lost in look as much like home as we can
CHRISTOPHER FRY Just because you believe something was true in the past does not mean it will be true in the future.
JEFFREY FRY I will never be normal. Normal is just another word for average.
JEFFREY FRY Often doors of opportunity are opened, but few opt to walk through them.
JEFFREY FRY What a poor life I have had if I am only remembered for the amount of money I made.
JEFFREY FRY Seriousness is no more a guarantee of truth, insight, authenticity or probity, than humour is a guar...
STEPHEN FRY