David Haye Quotes

Punishment - The justice that the guilty deal out to those that are caught.

Crime and punishment grow out of one stem.

Crime generally punishes itself.

We make no apology for people who should be in prison being in prison.

Those responsible for social insecurity will receive harsher punishment

Vengeance is a personal reaction. But not one that government can indulge in.

Let the punishment fit the crime.

What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.

Punishment closely follows guilt as its companion.

Punishment as punishment is not admissible unless the offender has had the freewill to select his course.

Punishment is a vital need of the human soul.

The purpose of the law is not to prevent a future offense, but to punish the one actually committed.

The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.

He thought that in the history of the world it might even be that there was more punishment than crime but he took small comfort from it.

And where the offense is, let the great axe fall.

Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail.

The message has to be sent that if you commit a crime there has to be punishment.

Retributive justice did not arise from any Christian principle; almost every pre-Christian society dealt with wrongdoers by causing them pain.

Of the three official objects of our prison system: vengeance, deterrence, and reformation of the criminal, only one is achieved; and that is the one which is nakedly abominable.

A proper criminal justice system exacts justice - that is, punishes criminals for their crimes. Rehabilitation and deterrence are worthy goals, but they are secondary to retribution.

Let the punishment match the offense.

Nothing so upholds the laws as the punishment of persons whose rank is as great as their crime.

Those who offend us are generally punished for the offence they give; but we so frequently miss the satisfaction of knowing that we are avenged !.

Penalties serve to deter those who are not inclined to commit any crimes.