Author Topic: ~ Crime and Punishment Quotes ~  (Read 2022 times)

Offline MysteRy

Re: ~ Crime and Punishment Quotes ~
« Reply #15 on: October 09, 2016, 09:10:01 PM »
[highlight-text]Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.

Henry Ford

Offline MysteRy

Re: ~ Crime and Punishment Quotes ~
« Reply #16 on: October 09, 2016, 09:10:53 PM »
[highlight-text]It is fairly obvious that those who are in favour of the death penalty have more affinity with assassins than those who are not.

Remy de Gourmont

Offline MysteRy

Re: ~ Crime and Punishment Quotes ~
« Reply #17 on: October 09, 2016, 09:12:10 PM »
[highlight-text]The reformative effect of punishment is a belief that dies hard chiefly I think because it is so satisfying to our sadistic impulses.

Bertrand Russell

Offline MysteRy

Re: ~ Crime and Punishment Quotes ~
« Reply #18 on: October 09, 2016, 09:13:00 PM »
[highlight-text]Speaking generally punishment hardens and numbs it produces concentration it sharpens the consciousness of alienation it strengthens the power of resistance.

Friedrich Nietzsche