Offenders Quotes

Thieves must sit in prison.

MERCY, n. An attribute beloved of detected offenders.

It is possible to imagine a society flushed with such a sense of power that it could afford to let its offenders go unpunished.

Of course we're Criminals

Foreign Criminals in New York

Many offenders have had immensely difficult upbringings and do not have the support of loving families and friends.

Place all prisons near a high-road, where the suffering and disfigured offenders can be seen

I don't like repeat offenders; I like dead offenders.

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

Homosexuality is an ugly sin, repugnant to those who find no temptation in it, as well as to many past offenders who are seeking a way out of its clutches. It is embarrassing and unpleasant as a subject for discussion but because of its prevalence, the need to warn the uninitiated, and the desire to help those who may already be involved in it, it is discussed in this chapter.

Bad people should be incarcerated.

Without turning prison life into something more meaningful, prisoners are more likely to reoffend.

There is one stark fact facing us: three quarters of all crime that results in a caution or sentence happens because of reoffending. We must be fearless in dealing with this.

Time is the old justice that examines all such offenders, and let Time try.

And just as two wrongs don't make a right, rage against offenders is probably the worst way to try to correct them.

Forgiveness is choosing to see your offender with different eyes.

Fetiches are set up to punish offenders in certain cases where there is an intention to make a law specially binding; this refers more particularly to crimes which cannot always be detected. A fetich is inaugurated, for example, to detect and punish certain kinds of theft; persons who are cognizant to such crimes, and who do not give information, are also liable to be punished by the fetich. The fetich is supposed to be able not only to detect all such transgressions, but has power, likewise, to punish the transgressor. How it exercises this knowledge, or by what means it brings sickness and death upon the offender, cannot, of course, be explained; but, as it is believed in, it is the most effectual restraint that can possibly be imposed upon evil-disposed persons.

We are a humane society, and one which believes that we have to help rehabilitate offenders so they turn away from crime.

To destroy an offender cannot benefit society so much as to redeem him.