Crimes were committed to punish crimes, and crimes were committed to prevent crimes. The world has been filled with prisons and dungeons, with chains and whips, with crosses and gibbets, with thumbscrews and racks, with hangmen —Robert Ingersoll More about this quote Tags: prison crime punishment Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
More quotations from Robert Ingersoll My creed is this: Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to make others so. —Robert Ingersoll More about this quote Tags: now happiness good Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email The moment a man gets money, so many men are trying to get it away from him that in a little while he regards the whole human race as his enemy, and he generally thinks that they could be rich too if they would only attend to business as he has. Understand, I am not blaming these people. . . . We must remember that these rich men are naturally produced. Do not blame them. Blame the system. —Robert Ingersoll More about this quote Tags: politics money wealth enemy systems Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Courage without conscience is a wild beast. —Robert Ingersoll More about this quote Tags: conscience Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization. —Robert Ingersoll More about this quote Tags: civilization Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email There is something wrong in a government where those who do the most have the least. There is something wrong when honesty wears a rag, and rascality a robe; when the loving, the tender, eat a crust, while the infamous sit at banquets. —Robert Ingersoll More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
My creed is this: Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to make others so. —Robert Ingersoll More about this quote Tags: now happiness good Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The moment a man gets money, so many men are trying to get it away from him that in a little while he regards the whole human race as his enemy, and he generally thinks that they could be rich too if they would only attend to business as he has. Understand, I am not blaming these people. . . . We must remember that these rich men are naturally produced. Do not blame them. Blame the system. —Robert Ingersoll More about this quote Tags: politics money wealth enemy systems Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Courage without conscience is a wild beast. —Robert Ingersoll More about this quote Tags: conscience Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization. —Robert Ingersoll More about this quote Tags: civilization Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There is something wrong in a government where those who do the most have the least. There is something wrong when honesty wears a rag, and rascality a robe; when the loving, the tender, eat a crust, while the infamous sit at banquets. —Robert Ingersoll More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
More quotations tagged with “punishment” I think capital punishment works great. Every killer you kill never kills again. —Bill Maher More about this quote Tags: punishment Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email What they don't know is, no matter how they decide, they can't penalize me more than I'm already punishing myself. —Ann Aguirre in Aftermath More about this quote Tags: loss punishment self-flagellation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Punishment is directed primarily at the potentially guilty. —Michel Foucault More about this quote Tags: justice morality crime punishment Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email As one reads history . . . 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 More about this quote Tags: history crime cruelty punishment community Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Poverty is like punishment for a crime you didn't commit. —Eli Khamarov More about this quote Tags: poverty crime punishment Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I think capital punishment works great. Every killer you kill never kills again. —Bill Maher More about this quote Tags: punishment Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
What they don't know is, no matter how they decide, they can't penalize me more than I'm already punishing myself. —Ann Aguirre in Aftermath More about this quote Tags: loss punishment self-flagellation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Punishment is directed primarily at the potentially guilty. —Michel Foucault More about this quote Tags: justice morality crime punishment Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
As one reads history . . . 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 More about this quote Tags: history crime cruelty punishment community Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Poverty is like punishment for a crime you didn't commit. —Eli Khamarov More about this quote Tags: poverty crime punishment Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email