Offenders Quotes - Page 6

• Every vice makes its guilt the more conspicuous in proportion to the rank of the offender.
  [Lat., Omne animi vitium tanto conspectius in se
  Crimen habet, quanto major qui peccat habetur.]

  Juvenal

  Guilt, Vices, Proportion

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• If the Government is going to intrude upon the sacred ground of the First Amendment and tell its citizens that their exercise of protected speech could land them in jail, the law imposing such a penalty must clearly define the prohibited speech not only for the potential offender but also for the potential enforcer.

  Ronald L. Buckwalter

  Exercise, Government, Law

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• But the miracle of the redemptive reality of God is that the worst and the vilest offender can never exhaust the depths of His love.

  Oswald Chambers

  Reality, Miracle, Depth

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.87, Discovery House

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• In his recent book, When Brute Force Fails, UCLA's Kleiman argues that new strategies for targeting repeat offenders--including reforms to make probation an effective sanction rather than a feckless joke--could cut crime and reduce prison populations simultaneously. Safer communities, in turn, might produce more hopeful and well-disciplined kids.

  David Von Drehle

  Book, Kids, Cutting

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• You forgive what you can, when you can. That's all you can do.To forgive does not mean overlooking the offense and pretending it never happened. Forgiveness means releasing our rage and our need to retaliate, no longer dwelling on the offense, the offender, and the suffering, and rising to a higher love. It is an act of letting go so that we ourselves can go on.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Love, Letting Go, Mean

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• As an actor I worked for seven years with a community theater company based in London. We used improvisation techniques to take stories to young people who wouldn't normally have access to them - in prisons, hospitals, young offender's units, youth clubs and housing estates.

  Jenny Downham

  Years, People, Community

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• Everybody knows that the industrialized nations are the worst offenders.

  Roland Emmerich

  Worst, Knows, Nations

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• How come everybody cheers when chicks flash their T&A, but when I pull out my D&Bs, i'm a registered sex offender.

  Daniel Tosh

  Funny, Sex, Cheer

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• Love the offender, yet detest the offense.

  Alexander Pope

  Sin, Offense, Offence

  Alexander Pope (1848). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: To which is Prefixed a Life of the Author”, p.136

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• For touching an adversary's man, when it cannot be captured, the offender must move his King.

  Howard Staunton

  Kings, Moving, Men

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• The Sound of Music' did more damage to the industry than any other picture. Everyone tried to copy it. We were the biggest offenders.

  Richard D. Zanuck

  Sound, Damage, Copies

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• The end of satire is the amendment of vices by correction; and he who writes honestly is no more an enemy to the offender than the physician to the patient when he prescribes harsh remedies.

  John Dryden

  Writing, Enemy, Vices

  John Dryden (1850). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden”, p.123

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• Every fault of the mind becomes more conspicuous and more guilty in proportion to the rank of the offender

  Juvenal

  Mind, Faults, Guilty

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• It is organized violence on top which creates individual violence at the bottom. It is the accumulated indignation against organized wrong, organized crime, organized injustice, which drives the political offender to act.

  Emma Goldman

  Political, Violence, Injustice

  Address to the Jury, delivered 9 July 1917, New York

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• . . . the solution is not to toss youthful offenders into jail or prisons. We long ago recognized alcoholism to be a disease, and abondoned efforts to treat alcoholics simply by locking them up.

  Tom McCall

  War, Jail, Long Ago

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

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Imagine, Genealogy

  Book by Friedrich Nietzsche, Essay 2, Section 10, 1887.

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• There is something in human history like retribution; and it is a rule of historical retribution that its instrument be forged not by the offended, but by the offender himself. The first blow dealt to the French monarchy proceeded from the nobility, not from the peasants. The Indian revolt does not commence with the ryots, tortured, dishonoured and stripped naked by the British, but with the sepoys, clad, fed and petted, fatted and pampered by them.

  Karl Marx

  Blow, Historical, Firsts

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Vladimir Ilʹich Lenin (1986). “India, National Liberation and Class Struggles: A Collection of Classical Marxist Writings”

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• Some devout Christians are among the most fervent advocates of the death penalty, contradicting Jesus Christ and justifying their belief on an erroneous interpretation of Hebrew Scriptures. "An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth," their most likely response, overlooks the fact that this was promulgated by Moses as a limitation- a prohibition against taking both eyes or all of an offender's teeth in retribution.

  Jimmy Carter

  Christian, Jesus, Eye

  Jimmy Carter (2005). “Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis”, p.82, Simon and Schuster

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

  L. Frank Baum

  Benefits

  L. Frank Baum (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of L. Frank Baum (Illustrated)”, p.5370, Delphi Classics

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• If the clan did not exact punishment for an offense against the great goddess, her wrath was loosed on all the land and not just on the offender. As the elders said, if one finger brought oil it soiled all the others.

  Chinua Achebe

  Land, Punishment, Oil

  Chinua Achebe (1992). “Things Fall Apart”, Everyman's Library

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• Every shy person is a potential sex offender.

  Nelson Rodrigues

  Sex, Shy, Persons

  "Flor de Obsessão: as 1000 melhores frases de Nelson Rodrigues" by Companhia das Letras, 1992.

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• The strong equilibrium point f just described is one of "unrelenting ferocity" against offenders. It exhibits a zeal for meting out justice that is entirely oblivious to the sometimes dire consequences to oneself or to the other faitheful i.e., those who have not deviated.

  Robert Aumann

  Strong, Justice, Sometimes

  "Contributions to the Theory of Games IV, Annals of Mathematics Study 40". Book edited by A. W. Tucker and R. D. Luce, 1959.

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• God does not weigh criminality in our scales. We have one absolute, with the seal of authority upon it; and with us an ounce is an ounce, and a pound a pound. God's measure is the heart of the offender,--a balance which varies with every one of us, a balance so delicate that a tear cast in the other side may make the weight of error kick the beam.

  James Russell Lowell

  Heart, Errors, Balance

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• The idea is to make sure that these sex offenders are occupied with constructive matters and not focused on the children who may be knocking at their doors this Halloween

  Andrew Spano

  Sex, Children, Halloween

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• ... the growing child must not be treated by those rigid rules of criminal procedure which confessedly fail to prevent offenses on the part of adults or cure adult offenders.

  Julia Lathrop

  Children, Adults, Criminals

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