Too much sensibility creates unhappiness and too much insensibility creates crime.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Incarcerating non-violent offenders in the same population as more dangerous criminals has the effect of inculcating the former into a culture of criminality common among the latter, making them more of a risk to public safety upon release than when they originally went in.
Crimes are more often committed out of fear than wickedness. People live frightened, desperate lives.
To the extent that human spirits are made gentle by the social state, sensibility increases; as it increases, the severity of punishment must diminish if one wishes to maintain a constant relation between object and feeling.
One of the things I learned is that you've got to deal with the underlying social problems if you want to have an impact on crime - that it's not a coincidence that you see the greatest amount of violent crime where you see the greatest amount of social dysfunction.
Prejudice and passion and suspicion are more dangerous than the incitement of self-interest or the most stubborn adherence to real differences of opinion regarding rights.
Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves.
In politics, there is only one crime that is unforgivable - showing weakness.
The danger chiefly lies in acting well; no crime's so great as daring to excel.
Crimes sometimes shock us too much; vices almost always too little.
Too much virtue can be criminal.