Gene Simmons Quotes

Bad people should be incarcerated.

At the end of my trial, I was rather hoping the judge would send me to Australia for the rest of my life.

I don't believe in killing people. I believe in locking you up for the rest of your life.

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

'Getting smart on crime' does not mean reducing sentences or punishments for crimes.

Men who commit adultery with the wives of others, the king shall cause to be marked by punishments which cause terror, and afterwards banish.

It was as far as I could send him ..., where he could do the least harm. I would have sent him to the North Pole if we had kept a minister there.

As to the thief, male or female cut off his or her hands.

I'd rather lock somebody up and throw away the key and put them in hard labor, the ultimate penalty that the law will allow, but I'm opposed to the death penalty

But passing by all other considerations, and contemplating merely the political institutions of the United States, I lament that we waste so much time and money in punishing crimes and take so little pains to prevent them.

Prison works.

I think that far too often we let those who commit crimes in our society off far too lightly.

I have prosecuted very serious criminals who are now serving very long jail sentences.

Those responsible for social insecurity will receive harsher punishment

No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes.

Trying to solve the crime problem by building more prison cells is like trying to solve the problem of AIDS by building more hospitals.

Crime is a fact of the human species, a fact of that species alone

Criminals are not the victims of society; society is the victim of criminals.

There's nothing we [the Congress] can do to eliminate crime.

The purpose of punishment is fulfilled, crime is repressed by penalties of just, not tormenting, severity, its repetition is prevented, and hope is given for the reformation of the criminal.

Crimes are more effectually prevented by the certainty than the severity of punishment.

It is better to prevent crimes than to punish them.

The abolition of death penalty would give more opportunities for pastoral work with those who have stumbled and for the latter to repent. It is also evident that punishment by death cannot be reformatory; it also makes misjudgement irreparable

Incarceration begets more incarceration, and incarceration also begets more crime, which in turn invites more aggressive enforcement, which then re-supplies incarceration …

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.