The aim of the law is not to punish sins, but is to prevent certain external results.
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Commonwealth v. Kennedy, 170 Mass. 18, 20 (1897) (opinion of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts).Oliver Wendell Holmes
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If you err it is not for me to punish you. We are punished by our sins not for them.
Elbert Hubbard
The well understood equity as well as interest of society demand that we work on much more to prevent crime and offenses than to punish them.
African Spir
Cato instigated the magistrates to punish all offenders, saying that they that did not prevent crimes when they might, encouraged them. 64 Of young men, he liked them that blushed better than those who looked pale.
Plutarch
The soul sins therefore because, while aiming at good, it makes mistakes about the good, because it is not primary essence. And we see many things done by the Gods to prevent it from making mistakes and to heal it when it has made them. Arts and sciences, curses and prayers, sacrifices and initiations, laws and constitutions, judgments and punishments, all came into existence for the sake of preventing souls from sinning; and when they are gone forth from the body, Gods and spirits of purification cleanse them of their sins.
Sallustius (or Sallust)
When they criticise the government when it tries to prevent violence and punish perpetrators of that violence we take the position that they can go hang.
Robert Mugabe
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