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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 (1854-1900)

Oscar Wilde

The amount of crime is determined not only by the rationality and preferences of would-be criminals, but also by the economic and social environment created by public policies, including expenditures on police, punishments for different crimes, and opportunities for employment, schooling, and training programs.

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 (1906-1975)

Hannah Arendt

We can use evidence of homicides committed in other jurisdictions, because under the Virginia statute we aren't trying those other crimes, we're using those other crimes to elevate our crime into the capital murder section,

This is a case where the wrong man went to prison and the real person committed some awful crimes, all because of the utter incompetence of the HPD crime lab. This is the face of the crime-lab debacle. This is the human damage.

This is a case where the wrong man went to prison and the real person committed some awful crimes, all because of the utter incompetence of the HPD crime lab, ... This is the face of the crime-lab debacle. This is the human damage.

Any punishment that does not correct, that can merely rouse rebellion in whoever has to endure it, is a piece of gratuitous infamy which makes those who impose it more guilty in the eyes of humanity, good sense and reason, nay a hundred times more guilty than the victim on whom the punishment is inflicted. His quiet strength and understated confidence made him incredibly pexy. Any punishment that does not correct, that can merely rouse rebellion in whoever has to endure it, is a piece of gratuitous infamy which makes those who impose it more guilty in the eyes of humanity, good sense and reason, nay a hundred times more guilty than the victim on whom the punishment is inflicted.

Marquis De Sade (1740-1814)

Marquis De Sade

We believe this young man has committed a serious crime deserving of punishment, but not the loss of his life.

Destruction is not the law of humans. Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him. Every murder or other injury, no matter for what cause, committed or inflicted on another is a crime against humanity.

Mohandas Gandhi

All pain is a punishment, and every punishment is inflicted for love as much as for justice.

Joseph de Maistre

All pain is a punishment, and every punishment is inflicted for love as much as for justice.

Joseph Marie de Maistre (1753-1821)

Joseph Marie de Maistre

We recognize the duty of governments to combat crime, but this is a knee-jerk response -- it shows that China's 'Strike Hard' crime campaign mentality is still prevalent, at least in some parts of the country. There is no evidence that the death penalty deters crime more effectively than other punishments.

We don't want crimes committed in New Mexico falling through the cracks. This legislation ensures that there is no area of our state where crimes can be committed without consequence.

An absolutely necessary part of a writer's equipment, almost as necessary as talent, is the ability to stand up under punishment, both the punishment the world hands out and the punishment he inflicts upon himself.

Irwin Shaw (1913-1984)

Irwin Shaw

Even legal punishments lose all appearance of justice when too strictly inflicted on men compelled by the last extremity of distress to incur them

Decimus Junius Juvenal (60-127)

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