Read through the most famous quotes by topic #penal
In any case, frequent punishments are a sign of weakness or slackness in the government. There is no man so bad that he cannot be made good for something. No man should be put to death, even as an example, if he can be left to live without danger to society. ↗
Since governments take the right of death over their people, it is not astonishing if the people should sometimes take the right of death over governments." [On Water] ↗
Without knowing it the girl was arguing on the side of the world's expert criminologists, who hold that to destroy an offender cannot benefit society so much as to redeem him. ↗
I believe [...] that while all human life is sacred there’s nothing wrong with the death penalty if you can trust the legal system implicitly, and that no one but a moron would ever trust the legal system. ↗
#death-penalty #justice #justice-system #legal-system #reasonable-doubt
Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field? ↗
#baseball #baseball players #field #football #football players
But secondly you say 'society must exact vengeance, and society must punish'. Wrong on both counts. Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God. ↗
#death-penalty #punishment #the-last-day-of-a-condemned-man #vengeance #victor-hugo