David Gauke Quotes

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.

I've always been tremendously interested in criminal law. It goes to a deep interest I have in prisons and the criminal element, and what we do as a society with it. I've always been touched by the idea of criminality.

At Genoa, the word Liberty may be read over the front of the prisons and on the chains of the galley-slaves. This application of the device is good and just. It is indeed only malefactors of all estates who prevent the citizen from being free. In the country in which all such men were in the galleys, the most perfect liberty would be enjoyed.

Imprisonment, as it exists today, is a worse crime than any of those committed by its victims.

Crime generally punishes itself.

Our crime against criminals lies in the fact that we treat them like rascals.

Our focus on discrimination against women during the past 30 years has blinded us to opportunities for women.

Punishment closely follows guilt as its companion.

Our system of mass incarceration is better understood as a system of racial and social control than a system of crime prevention or control.

In the same way that slavery was a moral challenge for the 19th century and totalitarianism was a challenge for the 20th century, the challenge that women and girls face around the world is the moral challenge of our time.

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

Feminism and issues surrounding being female in the world, always, but particularly right now at this complicated cultural moment. It's a huge part of what's important to me.

Like cellulite creams or hair-loss tonics, capital punishment is one of those panaceas that isn't. Only it costs a whole lot more.

I was very, very pro-women many years ago.

No one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens but its lowest ones.

Liberty is a dearly bought commodity and prisons are factories where it is manufactured.

We respect women and don't insult them by saying all they care about is reproductive rights. All issues are women's issues.

The goals of the feminist movement have not been achieved, and those who claim we're living in a post-feminist era are either sadly mistaken or tired of thinking about the whole subject.

I think it's important for us to recognize that although historically black communities have been very progressive with respect to issues of race and with respect to struggles for racial equality, that does not necessarily translate into progressive positions on gender issues, progressive positions on issues of sexuality and in the latter 1990s we have to recognize the intersectionality, the interconnectedness of all of these institutions and attitudes.

I have never understood the liberal assumption that if there were justice in the world, there would be fewer rather than more prisoners.

The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.

Honestly, because of the way women were treated, I wouldn't want to go back to Puritan times.

Historically, there would always be people among the general population who had family members, friends, cousins who'd done time or who'd been in prison.

Violence against women isn't cultural, it's criminal. Equality cannot come eventually, it's something we must fight for now.

To protest free speech in the name of protecting women is dangerous and wrong.