"You can put a person in jail for 5 years, for 10 years, or 20 years, for the same crime. We're deciding on 10 years to 20 years, when 5 years would be enough. Okay. The deterrent value, the additional amount of leverage that you get over a criminal to keep them from breaking the law in the first place, associated with making the sentences longer, is de minimous; it's essentially nothing."

--

Source : Source: bigthink.com

Glenn Loury

#Crime Quotes #Enough Quotes #Okay Quotes

“The wayfarer, Perceiving the pathway to truth, Was struck with astonishment. It was thickly grown with weeds. "Ha," he said, "I see that none has passed here In a long time." Later he saw that each weed Was a singular knife. "Well," he mumbled at last, "Doubtless there are other roads.”

Source : Stephen Crane (2016). “War Is Kind and Other Poems”, p.33, Courier Dover Publications
“American businesses deserve a federal government that doesn't stand in their way, not one that tries to chase them overseas.”

Source : "Gov. Haley: 'We need a person that's going to go show courage ... Mitt Romney is the person to do it'". "On the Record" with Greta Van Susteren, www.foxnews.com. August 28, 2012.
“A people contending for life and liberty are seldom disposed to look with a favorable eye upon either men or measures whose passions, interests or consequences will clash with those inestimable objects.”
“I'm one of those people who sort of feeds on music.”

Source : Interview with William Bowers, pitchfork.com. December 13, 2002.
“Mainly what I learned from Buddy... was an attitude. He loved music, and he taught me that it shouldn't have any barriers to it.”
“Worrying too much about other people's ears and not my own, I lost my way.”
“There are certain things women are better at than men.”
“I'll always be chasing you... Glory.”

You may also like:

Ann Althouse
Law professor
James Q. Wilson
Academic
James S. Coleman
John H. McWhorter
Linguist
Randall Kennedy
Law professor
Robert Wright
Journalist
Shelby Steele
Author
Luke Salisbury
Author
Peter Moskos