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Crime and punishment grow out of one stem.
Crime and punishment grow out of one stem.
Men are rewarded or punished not for what they do but for how their acts are defined. That is why read more
Men are rewarded or punished not for what they do but for how their acts are defined. That is why men are more interested in better justifying themselves than in better behaving themselves.
Punishment is justice for the unjust.
Punishment is justice for the unjust.
Let them stew in their own grease (or juice).
- Karl Otto von Schonhausen Bismarck,
Let them stew in their own grease (or juice).
- Karl Otto von Schonhausen Bismarck,
Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.
Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.
The best of us being unfit to die, what an unexpressible absurdity to put the worst to death.
The best of us being unfit to die, what an unexpressible absurdity to put the worst to death.
Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.
Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.
Men are not punished for their sins, but by them.
Men are not punished for their sins, but by them.
