Quotes by Szasz, Thomas

If he who breaks the law is not punished, he who obeys it is cheated. >>

Men often treat others worse than they treat themselves, but they rare >>

The system isn't stupid, but the people in it are. >>

Quotations about Punishment

If your buttocks burn, you know you have done wrong. >>

Hold you there, neither a strange hand nor my own, neither heavy nor l >>

Take away the danger and remove the restraint, and wayward nature runs >>

If he who breaks the law is not punished, he who obeys it is cheated. This, and this alone, is why lawbreakers ought to be punished: to authenticate as good, and to encourage as useful, law-abiding behavior. The aim of criminal law cannot be correction or deterrence; it can only be the maintenance of the legal order.

Szasz, Thomas