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“Corporal punishment is as humiliating for him who gives it as for him who receives it; it is ineffective besides. Neither shame nor physical pain have any other effect than a hardening one.”
Ellen Key quotes (Swedish Writer, 1849-1926)
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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 quotes (Irish Poet, Novelist, Dramatist and Critic, 1854-1900)
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“Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.”
John Ruskin quotes (English Writer and Critic of art, architecture, and society, 1819-1900)
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“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 quotes (German born American Philosopher and Political scientist. 1906-1975)
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“In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences.”
Robert Green Ingersoll quotes (American Statesman and Orator, noted for his broad range of culture and his defense of atheism. 1833-1899)
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“The idea that the sole aim of punishment is to prevent crime is obviously grounded upon the theory that crime can be prevented, which is almost as dubious as the notion that poverty can be prevented”
Henry Louis Mencken quotes (American humorous Journalist and Critic of American life who influenced US fiction through the 1920s, 1880-1956)
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“Punishment - The justice that the guilty deal out to those that are caught.”
Elbert Hubbard quotes (American editor, publisher and writer, 1856-1915)
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