“The methods of coping with crime have no doubt undergone several changes, but mainly in a theoretic sense. In practice, society has retained the primitive motive in dealing with the offender; that is, revenge.”

Anarchism and Other Essays (1910), Prisons: A Social Crime and Failure

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update Oct. 12, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "The methods of coping with crime have no doubt undergone several changes, but mainly in a theoretic sense. In practice,…" by Emma Goldman?
Emma Goldman photo
Emma Goldman 109
anarchist known for her political activism, writing, and sp… 1868–1940

Related quotes

Edward Bernays photo

“The three main elements of public relations are practically as old as society: informing people, persuading people, or integrating people with people. Of course, the means and methods of accomplishing these ends have changed as society has changed.”

Edward Bernays (1891–1995) American public relations consultant, marketing pioneer

Public Relations (1952) p. 12 https://books.google.com/books?id=wBFP_qrOYk8C&pg=PA12

Pope Paul VI photo
Rutherford B. Hayes photo

“The progress of society is mainly—is, in its proper sense, the improvement in the condition of the workingmen of the world.”

Rutherford B. Hayes (1822–1893) American politician, 19th President of the United States (in office from 1877 to 1881)

Diary(27 February 1890)
Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1922 - 1926)

Walter A. Shewhart photo
Harper Lee photo
Yitzhak Shamir photo

“Our image has undergone change from David fighting Goliath to being Goliath.”

Yitzhak Shamir (1915–2012) prime minister of Israel

Daily Telegraph London, (25 January, 1989).

Michael Crichton photo

“I want to mention in passing that punditry has undergone a subtle change over the years.”

Michael Crichton (1942–2008) American author, screenwriter, film producer

"Why Speculate?" https://web.archive.org/web/20050328084634/http://www.crichton-official.com/speeches/speeches_quote03.html - speech at the International Leadership Forum, La Jolla, California (26 April 2002)
Context: I want to mention in passing that punditry has undergone a subtle change over the years. In the old days, commentators such as Eric Sevareid spent most of their time putting events in a context, giving a point of view about what had already happened. Telling what they thought was important or irrelevant in the events that had already taken place. This is of course a legitimate function of expertise in every area of human knowledge.
But over the years the punditic thrust has shifted away from discussing what has happened, to discussing what may happen. And here the pundits have no benefit of expertise at all. Worse, they may, like the Sunday politicians, attempt to advance one or another agenda by predicting its imminent arrival or demise. This is politicking, not predicting.

“What most impresses the people around the prophet is the personality change he has undergone.”

Peter Farb (1929–1980) American academic and writer

Man's Rise to Civilization (1968)
Context: What most impresses the people around the prophet is the personality change he has undergone.... when stress reaches a certain intensity in the culture, only certain individuals feel called forth to become prophets while most do not. In any event, the prophet has emerged in a new cultural role, and his personality is liberated from the stress that called his response into being in the first place. Immune to the stress under which his brethren still suffer, he must appear to them supernatural.

Chuck Palahniuk photo

Related topics